<div dir="ltr">My Craftsman torque wrench fell apart. If I recall these things did fall under their life time warranty . I bought a new one.<div><br></div><div>I still have it .</div><div><br></div><div>One day I will get to it</div><div><br></div><div>Sujit</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 8:24 AM, John Innis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jdinnis@gmail.com" target="_blank">jdinnis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 11:49 PM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:glemon@neb.rr.com" target="_blank">glemon@neb.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">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?<br>
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