My Craftsman torque wrench fell apart. If I recall these things did fall
under their life time warranty . I bought a new one.
I still have it .
One day I will get to it
Sujit
On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:24 AM, John Innis <jdinnis at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only time I have ever needed to calibrate a wrench was because it
> broke. On my Craftsman that I bought in 1993 the adjustment nut came loose
> after about 20 years of service, so I reassembled it and re-calibrated.
> Since I had the set up there I also tested another Craftsman I had of the
> same vintage and a Snap-ON I bought in 2016. Both of the other two
> wrenches were within 5 ft-lbs. which I consider to be about as good as you
> are going to get with this style of wrench. When I was working on
> airplanes for a living the shop sent torque wrenches out for re-calibration
> every 12 months. I have no idea if the service that we used ever did any
> adjustment on them or not.
>
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:49 PM, <glemon at neb.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> That is a great tutorial on how to calibrate a torque wrench,I have to
>> confess that I have two or three and I have never bothered in many, many
>> years of ownership. For those that have done it or had it done how far off
>> are they usually?
>>
>> Greg Lemon
>> TR250
>>
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