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The imperial unit for moment is the foot-pound, although you’ll also find inch-pounds used on smaller torque wrenches. One newton meter is 0.738 foot-pounds or 8.85 inch-pounds. Regardless of whether you are using metric, imperial, inch-pounds, g x cm, Nm or foot-pounds, the basic concept is the same: a moment, or torque, is simply force x ... ................
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