• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

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1/4"drive torque wrench

Bagman said:
Exactly. It will go pretty low but you can barely feel the click at about 10 nm plus it can be too big in some places.


That's what I am worried about when buying a used one. I use my 3/8ths for torque only but when I get up to the axle bolt torques I wonder if I am hurting it. I do have a bar type for the 1/2" drive but sometimes get lazy & just use the 3/8" that I have already out. :o
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Ok. Not sure what your budget is but this looks like torque wrench heaven in 1/4".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Gedore-DREM...04/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1299522768&sr=8-10
 
i see guys break some heavy stuff with the company torque wrenches, they're prolly a mile out of cal. knowing that, the genius' in charge of maintainance decided to ban all personel calibrated tools starting this month, more room in the box, less in the garage
 
If whatever you are torquing is horizontal, then use any wrench & a known weight at a specific distance for setting the torque.

Example: 10 ft.lbs would be a 10lb weight at the end of a 1 foot wrench.

Or you could at least test your torque wrench that way..
 
johosjokers said:
i see guys break some heavy stuff with the company torque wrenches, they're prolly a mile out of cal. knowing that, the genius' in charge of maintainance decided to ban all personel calibrated tools starting this month, more room in the box, less in the garage
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Don't know what field of maintenance you're in but I do know if it's aviation, that shtuff is taken VERY seriously. At least on the DoD side. Sounds like you know your way around a T-wrench regardless!
 
johosjokers said:
Airline overhaul, not dod, ours only carry people. Btw, where's the quote Thingy now??
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Click on the 'reply' bottom RH corner of the post you want to quote
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mr3 said:
Just to multiply the options here;

Stahlwille Catalouge link :)

Mr3
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Wow! That last link had a lot of choices! I ende up with a Westward Clicker [20 to 200 inch lbs or 2.26 to 22.6 nm. I got it from Granger for about $86. I know from this post that there are better & more accurate choices[& more expensive]but for what I do I am satisfied. Thaks everyone for your reply's.
 
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