[s-cars] Source for torque wrench?

[Steve Powers]

When my 1/2" Crapsman digi-torque wrench blew up I bought a Facom.
Beautiful piece, came with a rotation handle for the head. It was the
better part of $400. It too, came apart. Wierd. It's not like I abuse
my hand tools - I always clean them and store the wrench set to its
lowest torque setting.

I got a full refund on the Facom and haven't take the plunge again.
I'm tempted to go with Proxxon. I use many of their tools on my
motorcycle and have their 1/4" torque wrench. Proxxon is German made
and reasonably priced (oxymoron I know)

http://www.proxxon.com, but you'll have to use the European site to
see them. You can buy them from http://www.touratech-usa.com.

Steve


On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 9:15 PM, tedebearp at yahoo.com
<tedebearp at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have a Craftsman digi-tork 1/2" torque wrench that's about 14 years old and has been used a lot.  I checked the calibration last year (with a weight attached to the end), and it was within 5 lbs-ft.
>
> chris chambers wrote:
>> But have you checked that Craftsman torque wrench for accuracy?
>> The less expensive wrenches lose their accuracy easily.
>> --- "W. Bean" <theringmeister at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>>> ---- davekase at pdqlocks.com wrote:
>>> > Jim,
>>> >
>>> > I had a Craftsman 1/2" drive torque wrench for about 10 years.  I
>>> used it
>>> > _very_ lightly and the damn thing fell apart anyway.   The plastic
>>> bits
>>> > went to shit and the handle split.
>>> >
>>> > Snap-On/MAC/Matco and the like have excellent torque wrenches but
>>> they are
>>> > quite salty.  I trolled Ebay for a couple weeks and picked up a
>>> used MAC
>>> > torque wrench (all metal).  It was only $50 as the finish was not
>>> perfect
>>> > on it.  I fully suspect this will be the last torque wrench I ever
>>> have to
>>> > buy.
>>> >
>>> > What the heck happened to your old one?  Don't you know that you
>>> never,
>>> > ever sell any of your tools.  That's just the way it is...
>>> >
>>> > Kase
>>> > shopping for a ring-toy
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I've had my 3/8" Craftsman manual torque wrench for about 8 years
>>> now, and I've used it pretty often.  The only thing that has happened
>>> is the spring clip in the head came out of the hoop (the mechanism
>>> that allows it to change direction), but I fixed that in about 5
>>> minutes and it's been fine ever since.  I guess as always, your
>>> individual results may vary.  The only thing I'll add is that Sears
>>> doesn't warrant their torque wrenches forever like other tools.  90
>>> days IIRC.
>>>
>>> I've never shopped for a MAC or Snap-On wrench of any sort, so I
>>> don't know how they compare.  I can only guess they're favorable, but
>>> I was poor (still am, but for different reasons) at the time so I
>>> bought what I thought was reasonable.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Wylie Bean
>>> TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
>>> 90 cq
>>> 91 90q20v sport
>>> 92 UrS4
>>> 01 allroad
>>>
>>>
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