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Re: Torque Wrench question...
>style wrenches. Snap-On typically rates their beam types to 2%, while
>the click types to 4% accuracy.
I would agree with that one.
>Any torque wrench should be calibrated regularly. Your tool supplier
>should be able to do this for you (Snap-On, Mac). By the time you
Sears? Home Depot? ROFL.
>of a click type wrench will effect the torque click points), as well
>as keeping them at the temperature they were calibrated at.
Then mine are way off... my garage in the summer is a sauna, and in the
winter an ice box.
>I use the click type wrench, as it is much quicker and easier, and a
>little more durable.
I use that one 95% of the time... I use the beam one for torquing on heads
and that's about it.
>preparation (oiled, loctited, sealed, etc). Hence the use of torque
>to yield bolts in critcal areas. (And my reluctance to bother with
>the beam type units)
The other thing most of us forget is that putting an extension bar on the
wrench also reduces its accuracy.
Frederic Breitwieser
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