Originally Posted by Aeroplane
Yeah, it's so ghetto that it was invented by those redneck Italian track racers. What?
For the record, I have no idea how a torque wrench would help. If you're not using the rotafixa method, you're using a chainwhip, which has no socket-wrench connection. Rotafixa does the exact same thing as a chainwhip for a fixed-gear hub. You would need to be a freaking hulk to strip the cog threads on your hub by othertightening. Seriously. Just tighten the hell out of it. Most folks, if they ruin a hub, do it on the lockring threads, not the cog. So tighten the hell out of both, and you should be fine.
i stripped the lockring threads on a phil hub by just slightly over-tightening the lockring each time i changed my cog (i changed it quite a bit) in a 7 month period. i'm dfntly not a hulk. my understanding now is that it's not that difficult to do. phil wood waranteed the hub, but i have to wait til they anodize my color again in a few months to get the shell replaced.