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Got any cool tools lately?
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I just had the HF click torque wrench I bought 10 years ago completely explode the mechanism while doing my lug nuts on the front of the truck. Never seen anything like it. Double checked with another torque wrench and they were still within spec too ha
My entire LS was built using the Quinn Digital torque wrench from HF. Performed exactly as its Snap-On rival. And is a very nice torque wrench. All the test videos on youtube confirm it as well.
I have way less digital torque wrenches fail than regular clickers. I have maybe 1 out of 250 digitals fail at +/-1% and about 1 out of 25 clicker style fail at +/-4%.
InterestingI don't like the way they notify you is my deal.
I don't want it to light up, beep, do anything until the exact moment I reach my destination.
No lead in, warning, your getting close, none of that.
Just beep and flash once when I'm at my target.
That's my main thing. The one I have, and a few I've used+ seen used, all had " your getting close!" Crap going on, and it bugs me.
First time I used mine I stopped there and when I figured it out I had to go back over a full set of main caps that I almost messed up and left wrong .
I don't want it to light up, beep, do anything until the exact moment I reach my destination.
No lead in, warning, your getting close, none of that.
Just beep and flash once when I'm at my target.
That's my main thing. The one I have, and a few I've used+ seen used, all had " your getting close!" Crap going on, and it bugs me.
First time I used mine I stopped there and when I figured it out I had to go back over a full set of main caps that I almost messed up and left wrong .
I agree, I hate that also. Try calibrating 20 in a row at 9 settings each with them vibrating and beeping every time. It’ll drive you nuts.
At boeing we had pneumatic torque wrenches calibrated to specific torque settings. A set of those sure would be nice Im sure each of those wrenches cost around 5k though
I don't calibrate mine either, I can tell if it's off by much and the last one after 20 years felt too soft so I got a new one.
The old one now is a long ratchet
I got the AC Delco digital adapter back when that was the less expensive option. I used it to calibrate all my clickers and occasionally it gets used when the situation calls for a torque that would be in the 90th percentile of the small wrench and the 5th percentile of the big wrench. Those outer ranges are where clickers are way less accurate. 2% variation in the mid range becomes 15% variation at the top end. In the case of the very bottom end you risk stripping bolts from "is this thing even going to click?" because the mechanism doesn't click, but slowly rolls over and you don't feel it.
To pass calibration they are tested at 20%, 60% and 100% of range.
We followed a rule of never using a torque wrench of any kind on the bottom or top end range of the last 15% in either direction even though every wrench got recalibrated every 90 days.
Here is a 1000FTLB wrench that you can use the minimum 200ftlbs all the way to the maximum 1000ftlb with out an issue with a nice crisp click.
100ftlb clicker next to it for scale
100ftlb clicker next to it for scale
That's what you call a big dog.
Those were sweet - that was the highest rated manual torque wrenches we used; everything over that we used hydraulic units with reaction arms.
What did you do on automotive that was more than 1000 ft.lbs?
My semi has a few 550 ft.lbs requirements and the rest is in the 250 and below
At that point I was working for General Electric Industrial Power Systems - Wind Energy Division making huge wind turbines and huge 300MW generators.
While I was turning wrenches for a living the largest torque wrench in the shop was a 600lbs-ft Snap On that was “donated” to our shop by the local Navy base who had to clear out equipment to justify the need for the following years budget - it came off of the USS Lexington ( training carrier at that time ).
We never actually had a need for that wrench but did use it on anything from 200~350ft-lbs - we never turned down tools that were donated by Uncle Sam!
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