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Originally Posted by Jeff Pahl
Most common cause of breaking the terminals off is trying to thread a 1/4-20 nut on to the metric stud.
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Originally Posted by Ether
A torque wrench would have caught this, no?
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A good torque tool, yes. However, what 90+% of teams have, if they have any sort of torque tool at all, is only suitable for the lug nuts on the team transportation.
I would love to see a big warning label on the PD stating "CAUTION: METRIC HARDWARE"
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