# What is "Moderate" force?

**URL:** <https://community.inventables.com/t/what-is-moderate-force/15040>\
**Category:** Assembly\
**Created:** [October 27, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/what-is-moderate-force/15040 "2015-10-27T21:46:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![NateStovall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@NateStovall](https://community.inventables.com/u/NateStovall)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2015, 9:46pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/what-is-moderate-force/15040/1 "2015-10-27T21:46:17Z")

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I’m about to start my build, and I’ve learned that my definition of “moderate force” would strip the threads. Luckily, I have a torque screwdriver-thingy I bought after stripping out a couple scope mounts…

Could someone let me know how hard to torque the screws down?

And for the record I did not break it, I was just testing its durability.

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**Author:** ![LarryM](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/larrym/32/51450_2.png) [@LarryM](https://community.inventables.com/u/LarryM)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:55am UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/what-is-moderate-force/15040/2 "2015-10-28T01:55:00Z")

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I had the same question in mind when I built my machine. I just winged it. For no reason in particular I picked 20 in-lbs. Torqued all the fasteners I could use the torque screwdriver on and the ones I couldn’t I tried to match the effort it took with the torque screwdriver. I used Loctite on everything.

So far, my use of the machine would be considered very light and it works well. I don’t know what is going to happen when I start cutting more difficult pieces.

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**Author:** ![NateStovall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ed8c4c/32.png) [@NateStovall](https://community.inventables.com/u/NateStovall)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2015, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/what-is-moderate-force/15040/3 "2015-10-28T13:59:25Z")

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Danke! I didn’t wanna go all American Tourister Gorilla on it, then have to wait for parts to ship.

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**Author:** ![JkWestphal](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex009/user_avatar/community.inventables.com/jkwestphal/32/53751_2.png) [@JkWestphal](https://community.inventables.com/u/JkWestphal)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2015, 12:48pm UTC](https://community.inventables.com/t/what-is-moderate-force/15040/4 "2015-10-29T12:48:18Z")

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I thought it was the Samsonite monkey?