Who uses centimeter-kilogram torque measurements??

[General Geoff]

Found this guy at a local flea market for $5, as a huge proponent of beam wrenches I had to take it home with me.

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First torque wrench I've ever seen that has a scale in centimeter-kilograms. Was this a common unit of measurement at any point? Standard SI torque unit is newton-meters and always has been AFAIK.

Tested it against a digital torque adapter and it's within +/-2% of what the adapter reads at 100 all the way up to 600 inch-pounds, probably even more accurate than that but parallax error prevents me from being more consistent.

Anyway, are there other commonly found vintage (or modern) torque wrenches that show cm-kg?

 

[mikegt4]

Sometimes things are funny, my Ferrari 308GT4 oil pressure gauge reads in kg/cm2. You would think, being Italian, that it would read in bars.

It is a nice old torque wench and the odd scale adds interest. I still have a Craftsman beam wrench that I bought back in the late 1960's, hardly ever use it now but it put a lot of engines together back in the day.

 

[4xdog]

The factory service manuals for my two Tacomas and my Lexus RX give all torque specifications in N·m, kgf·cm, and ft·lbf.

It's pretty common to have seen kgf·cm on Japanese stuff over the years, although now N·m has become the default standard as far as I can tell.

 

[FTG-05]

Only people who's country hasn't been to the moon.