Mesa 4x12 Wiring: Before and After

[FourT6and2]

But I am willing to play along. When you come up with a clip showing the difference between to really close torque amounts on a speaker, i am down to hear it

But I'm not making that claim. You're just being antagonistic for no reason.

 

[jasonP]

I work with my hands every day and use torque wrenches all the time for work. I always find it more difficult to tell a fasteners tightening torque when when the nut has a locking feature, no matter the size, as well as going against something that can bend easy and the give of the gasket. Always a good idea to make sure all the fasteners used are torqued to equal same amounts and using a torque wrench just takes all the guess work out of it.

 

[Anje]

Agree torquing with proper tool is always better in general; on a simple fastening like guitar speakers stuff, it usually is just fine to do it by hand also IMHO. First checking speaker frame and fasteners / inserts are all clean and in good shape / straight; make the screws come in contact with the frame, then gently tighten by hand, going one screw & one 1/4 turn at a time in an "X" alternate fashion, same amount of few 1/4 turns by screw total max, stop before you feel the need to force too much.. done.
Challenge can often come from older speakers / fasteners, that are not in top shape and don't allow for smooth fastening; still can be an issue with torque wrench also, as you sometime need to "overcome" some hard point when screwing down if one screw / insert is slightly damaged for ex.