Hi Randall, I agree. Sometimes HF is good stuff and sometimes not. My last engine rebuild was in 1971, so I haven't used a torque wrench in a long time. The one I used then was a bending beam with po
You can recalibrate these clicker type wrenches through calibration services like www.dynamictechnology.com It costs about $50, much more than the wrench! I did it on a $9.99 HF special, which was al
I have had both a beam type & a clicker torque wrench for the past 20 years. I just occasionally check one against the other. They have always read within 4% of each other & always the same differenc
Hi Kendall, Thanks for the post. I appreciate it. Interesting... Sometimes you get what you pay for and sometimes you don't. I was sitting here wondering how accurate I was with the old bending beam
What you can do, if you still have the bending beam device, is make an adaptor that can link the driving pin on it to the new clicker. Set a torque on the clicker wrench and fix it by the handle so
Wow. I know I've been doing team.net stuff for a while, but having a message come through in '71 seems to be stretching it ;-) mjb. /// unsubscribe/change address requests to majordomo@autox.team.ne
Shouldn't be too hard to check it yourself, if you have something you know the weight of fairly accurately. Take a chunk of cast iron with you the next time you visit the doctor <g> Clamp the drive
I had a conversation with a guy who ran an Indian drop-forging plant a few years ago. He claimed that they were fully capable of making things to the highest standards. They didn't do so, because th
To check calibration, I'd compare it to a beam-type wrench. Clamp the clicker in some soft jaws and use two sockets with an all-thread joining nut connecting them together. Set the clicker and pull w