Lock Ring

[Blue Hills]

Found this thread as I have long thought I overtighten them.
Have never had any significant problem getting an old cassette off with proper tools at home but have recently bought one of those tiddly tools** that in theory allows you take a cassette off on tour by using the force of the pedals against the frame (steel of course) so don't want to overdo things.
I'm thinking 4 clicks?

** similar to this but made by Unior
https://kk.org/cooltools/next-best-thing/#:~:text=On-the-road spoke replacement tool&text=However, the Next Best Thing,leverage of the bike's chain.
Edit, this is the unior thing i bought, as demonstrated by irritating eastern hipster.

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jcuUjEzsuT8

Clearly don't want to overtighten if you may be using that.

 

[Ajax Bay]

4 clicks on a Shimano cassette lockring for me.

 

[Lovacott]

People get all misty eyed about "torque" spanners as they think that is what the "professionals" use but if you are having to rely on a torque spanner to get the feel for a simple cassette lockring right then I would simply accept your cack handedness and pay the shop to do it.

The general rule of thumb with anything threaded was always "hand tight and half a turn".

I've actually tested that theory by doing it and then checking the actual torque setting against the recommended setting. It's not far off.

For the record, I've owned and used a torque wrench for 38 years but I could live without it and I don't carry it with me on my commute.

A lot depends on the duty of the threaded connection as well. If it is simply to hold something in place, torque is not so critical. If it is to help maintain pressure on a part (like a cylinder head on a car or a flange on a gas main), it means something a bit more. Over torque can ruin a thread and cause distortion so it's always best to go gentle when it's not a torque critical part.

What confused me a bit, was a recommended torque setting for the freewheel I fitted a couple of months back? As a freewheel tightens with pedalling, what difference would it make whether or not I got the initial torque setting wrong?

 

[Drago]

The general rule of thumb with anything threaded was always "hand tight and half a turn".

That's your cylinder head needing 4 x helicoils then.

 

[rogerzilla]

The recommended torque is really, really high. I just do a few clicks. No problems in 30 years. There is a very mild unscrewing force (precessive, I imagine, because the situation is the same for a Sturmey-Archer 12 spline sprocket and those use a left-threaded lockring).

 

[Lovacott]

That's your cylinder head needing 4 x helicoils then.

You didn't read the bit where I said that cylinder heads are torque critical and how I have owned and used a torque wrench for 38 years.