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[Hifi_swlon]

Oddly enough, even measured torqueing of screws and bolts is very inaccurate in terms of the actual load exerted and stress imposed in the bolt.  What matters is the load / extension force on the bolt.  As an example, a super lubricated bolt will impose many times the actual force compared a non lubricated bolt with a given identical torque load.  To be honest, these are speaker bolts were are talking about here, so common sense and a careful touch and lots of feel are what is required and as good as anything.  If you are known amongst your mates as 'Mr gorilla hands' or similar, maybe get someone else to do it!

I missed this post - you sound like you know what you're talking about Confused, I'm just not sure I follow.
Is it that the friction of an unlubrucated bolt will contribute to torque from the wrenches POV (so less torque actually working)? How would you measure the load/exertion force other than torque wrench (at home)?

Just curious. Like you say you can feel a lot with your hands and my 0-20n calibrated wrench seemed useless at low settings. But knowing when to stop is still tricky.

Damn it, now we've started talking about it I'm going to stress about having over-tightened.