One thing I like to recommend to people starting out with mechanical work is to take a bit of scrap bar stock or plate stock, in both steel and aluminum, drill some holes in them, thread them, and then run bolts into them and intentionally try to break the heads off by tightening.
It's a great starting exercise to build out basic machining skills. You could also then practice using easy outs, left handed bits, etc, all without having to risk precious real parts.
Plus it's fun breaking #$%* sometimes
On the CB750 the arrangement is a bit different, there's a stud that mounts to the crankshaft, the advancer goes onto that, and is retained with a 6mm nut (10mm socket size) with a flat washer under it. Otherwise it's a similar mounting arrangement, basically. When tightening the nut, I like to use a 1/4" drive ratchet (5 inch handle), and apply force with only my thumb and first two fingers, with my fingers "choked up" on the ratchet handle about half way or a bit more, and then apply pressure until the nut stops turning. By not using the whole handle length nor the whole force of my hand, i'm pretty much guaranteed to not be able to generate enough force to strip the threads. I do use blue locktite, never had any issues.
There
is a feel to "just before it snaps" but you can only really learn it by snapping a bunch of things first.
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