Torque Converter

Convert newton-meters, foot-pounds, inch-pounds, and kilogram-force centimeters.

Torque is a twisting moment — a force applied at some distance from an axis — and this tool rebases one figure across the four units that fastener and drivetrain work actually quotes: newton-metres, foot-pounds, inch-pounds and kilogram-force centimetres. Everything routes through N·m. Whatever you type in the Torque field is multiplied by its unit's factor to reach N·m, then divided back out into the other three columns, so raising the entered torque raises every column together. One foot-pound is 1.3558179483314 N·m, and the inch-pound column is derived as exactly one twelfth of that rather than as a separately rounded constant, so ft·lb and in·lb can never drift apart. A kilogram-force centimetre is 0.0980665 N·m, which is why an older metric wrench marked in kgf·cm reads roughly ten times higher than the same setting expressed in N·m. What it does not account for is bolt preload. A torque spec is only a proxy for clamp load, and the link between the two runs through thread friction, lubrication, plating and washer condition; an oiled thread reaches the same tension at meaningfully lower torque. Nor does it correct for a crow's-foot or extension bar, which changes the effective lever arm, or warn you that N·m and joules share dimensions while describing different quantities.