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Originally Posted by Spaceywilly
ugh. It's amazing how many people don't understand hp vs. torque
Torque is a force, just like gravity, magnetism, weak and strong nuclear force, it is to quote wikipedia that which can cause an object with mass to change its velocity. 1lb.ft of torque is the amount of force required to move 1lb of mass (technically lb is weight, but we don't pay attention to that since we are usually staying on the same planet) 1 foot. Just remember force = mass x accelaration. Force causes a mass to accelerate.
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Um. No.
1 ft. lb. of torque is the amount of torque on a fulcrum if 1 pound of force is applied 1 foot from the fulcrum in a direction perpendicular to the lever.
A pound in ft. lb. is a unit of force, as it usually is in physics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pound-foot_%28torque%29