I want to know more about ft-lbs, ft-lbf, in-lbs and in-lbf

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I want to know more about ft-lbs, ft-lbf, in-lbs and in-lbf

by JFeg » Tue Mar 21, 2006 12:53 pm

As I live in sweden and thus not that familiar with the american way of measuring things, I would like to know the difference between torque units lbs and lbf. It also would be fun to know what the abbreviation stands for, I mean it sems a bit odd to pronounce lbf/lbs - pounds....