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Subject: [TR] Craftsman torque wrench
From: triumphstag at gmail.com (Sujit Roy)
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2018 10:38:20 -0700
References: <CANuE7YC6ftjVNVxamDMzZEt-x_HCOWTTH-K_oUVHRjXSy2d4TQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180817044957.YUXVM.127488.root@cdptpa-web27> <CANuE7YD_9nPwFb+8UXTS1WZp585Xg2AePS_71A3s4nGV2PUkEw@mail.gmail.com>
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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