Swollen lug nuts….

[buckland]

Thanks on that. I first used the "torque stick" 140 with the air gun. then went back to check with the torque wrench. Wonder how else to check the torque wrench?

 

[ntsqd]

Send it out for calibration. Simple to say (type), maybe not so simple to execute on. I know that Snap-On dealers can have their torque wrenches re-calibrated, I just don't know if they can do any other brands. They don't do it on their trucks, they send them somewhere. I would expect most metropolis' to have instrument calibration firms, one of them can likely do the work.

I reluctantly bought a clicked not long ago. I couldn't see the beam scale in that particular application, but beam types are my preference because you can see when they're out of calibration since the needle tells you so, and you can just bend the needle to "re-calibrate" one of them.

 

[pvstoy]

A note of concern that may be misplaced, but if your torque wrench is a "clicker" type and it has been left at some setting other than zero it probably isn't accurate any more. Clickers are notorious for going out of calibration if left on anything other than zero, and sometimes even then.

+1. If I remember I always back them off.

 

[Casa Escarlata Robles Too]

Send it out for calibration. Simple to say (type), maybe not so simple to execute on. I know that Snap-On dealers can have their torque wrenches re-calibrated, I just don't know if they can do any other brands. They don't do it on their trucks, they send them somewhere. I would expect most metropolis' to have instrument calibration firms, one of them can likely do the work.

I reluctantly bought a clicked not long ago. I couldn't see the beam scale in that particular application, but beam types are my preference because you can see when they're out of calibration since the needle tells you so, and you can just bend the needle to "re-calibrate" one of them.

I like the "beam" type also. Just bend the beam to re-calibrate.
Old school works for me. I've had the same torque "beam" wrench for
over 50 years still works great.
Frank

 

[buckland]

I haver a beam type 3/8" for the motorcycle but the tractor and truck I have the click type. I am thinking I might invest in a new torque as mine are at least 40 years olds. I'm getting to be an ole codger when I look at my tool box. I still have a few tools of my father's. They give back good memories though aren't that useful... one vivid memory when I was around six... I heard hammering in the basement, so I skulked down the stairs to see what was going on... my dad was reading a book but had a hammer in his other hand... every now an then he'd do a few random hammerings to sound like he was working... he was (as the Irish say) "skiving" looking like you are working when you are not. He saw me peering from the top few stairs and stopped... he looked straight at me and said... "man secret" ... and I knew ... I was just accepted in a new club. Sworn to secrecy and I have to this day not told my mother who is 96. ( he was hiding)

 

[pvstoy]

Buckland awesome memory!