Stripped Final Drive Drain Threads

[Ray]

I ... keep thinking about a Park Tool wrench for the small stuff.

...and you have the bicycles to work on. 

My buddies with the money for carbon posts and thin, easily crushable alloy parts swear by small torque wrenches - are you one of those guys? (If you are, you'll be the first one I know from Iowa who is not racing.)

In the end, it's always kind of fun to occasionally check to see how close the recommended torque settings are to the amount of torque I apply by feel and the visual image of what i want the bolt to do. Can't say that there has ever been much difference - well with the exception of stems. 

The first big American cycling coach - Eddy B. - came from Poland and raced at a time when money was tight. He always advocated leaving the stem a little loose, so that in a crash, the bars would twist on the steering axis and not bend and demand replacement. As a guy who never had much money, I followed his advice.

OK - not much to do with an oil plug, but definitely a plug to trust our feel for small steel bolts more than we trust the torque wrenches.