I wouldn't trust Amazon to buy something as critical as tools. Even if it's a name brand, there are a lot of fakes on that site.
IMO, generally for places to buy tools: Home Depot > Crappy Tire > Amazon > AliExpress
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Torque wrench 5ft/lb - 80 ft/lb
- Thread starter Chris-CJ
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I wouldn't trust Amazon to buy something as critical as tools. Even if it's a name brand, there are a lot of fakes on that site.
IMO, generally for places to buy tools: Home Depot > Crappy Tire > Amazon > AliExpress
Maybe nothing at all. It's one of those deals where you are trading a lower upfront price for more time and effort testing and verifying before you can trust it to do the job you needed. I've thought about building a quick and easy multi-point calibration setup in the garage. We'll see if I get around to it. A welder would help but I think I can build it without one. It will probably wait until I stumble upon suitable parts.
Mad Mike
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When I started wrenching I think I was about 8 years old. My dad needed instructions to use a screwdriver, by my retired Italian neighbor was a master - he did small engines in his garage and always had time to teach me. He gave me his bar-torque wrenches, said he stopped using them decades ago.I hope not. My craftsman is Almost 50 years old.
He used to make me torque bolts without looking at the bar, claimed a good mechanic learned to feel torque. He was very good, with his eyes closed he could hit the mark.
I got good too, i can still get within a few inches of a click without looking. I don't think I've used a torque wrench on anything under 50hp for decades.
While I agree with the sentiment the hand-wringing "won't anybody think of the children" tone of those bullets is quite ridiculous. The highly stressed internal components causing a severe injury would take a special kind of dumb where you set it for high torque and then drive out the pin holding the head. On click wrenches I have seen, you can back off spring tension to zero and remove the stored energy safely. Lowest common denominator rules. It is easy for someone to put a lot of torque through the wrench after it clicks with no indication of how much. If someone really wanted to use their torque wrench as a breaker bar, set the torque near the top and it will give you a click when it's had enough and you will know it is time to change strategies.
I occasionally dust mine off. No batteries, no remembering to release the tension.
I gave my beam to my brother. I've been keeping my eyes open for a dial wrench. Hopefully they become half affordable as working techs all upgrade to electronic wrenches. A dial wrench seems to combine most of the good qualities with few of the bad ones.
Warnings are always over the top. Unfortunately, it's usually for a reason.
All my CNC machines have stickers that say "Do not touch rotating tool" because somebody touched the rotating tool.
The 'Click' is not the only thing going on in a torque wrench. You have a pivot point that runs on a pin. This joint is not designed to be used as you would a standard ratchet.
Why do you want to use a relatively expensive tool for something that it was not designed to do when you can use the cheap tool that was made for it?
Again, just use the tool that was made to do the job you are doing.
No one is going to stop you using a drill as a hammer. It's a free country.
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