{"id":389,"date":"2022-05-21T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/?p=389"},"modified":"2022-05-21T21:11:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T11:11:42","slug":"all-that-torque-about-wrenching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/21\/all-that-torque-about-wrenching\/","title":{"rendered":"All that Torque about Wrenching"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What\u2019s the difference between one torque wrench and another? Are they all the same? Prices vary so dramatically but so does the design of it. So what\u2019s the better choice? Well it really does depend on what you need it for and who you are – a professional, amateur or professional amateur. Then you have to consider what brand do you go with and can you get away with something from Supercheap or do you need to go with Snap-On.<\/p>\n

On top of that, it also comes to what type of torque wrench you want – beam\/deflection, digital, click, slipper, or dial indicator. As a former professional grease monkey technician guy, I had a combination of click for 1\/2\u201d and dual signal deflecting beam for my 3\/8\u201d. The big boy was for my standard use for wheel nuts, underbody bolts on cars including subframes and loosening head bolts and other big bolts. The 3\/8 drive deflecting beam was used for more finer work that didn\u2019t need high torque but consistent reliable readings. Anything that needed exact readings I was lucky enough to have access to a digital torque wrench. If I hadn\u2019t, I would invest in a larger and smaller dual signal deflecting beam torque wrench.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Warren & Brown make a fantastic torque wrench that is clean in design, simple in use and accurate in function. It is also rather nicely weighted and feels great in your hand. The knurled chrome feels great in the hand. Very tactile and almost looking for a reason to use it. That \u2018click\u2019 is a bit satisfying. Hey! Don\u2019t judge until you try it. If ASMR was a thing back in 2008 then yes, this would be that\u2026 As always \u00a0it\u2019s more personal preference than anything and on top of that, it\u2019s also how you were taught and who taught you. New school technician loves the digital torque wrenches and why not just sign up to $50\/week for the rest of your life to afford one? Old school guys love the deflection beam as it\u2019s reliable, accurate and easy to use.<\/p>\n

What should you buy if you are doing work at home? Simply the best you can afford. But don\u2019t go cheap. Cheap isn\u2019t guaranteed to be accurate, so you should get it calibrated, but that costs as much as a torque wrench and sometimes even more. So I\u2019ve been recommending apprentices to start with the Warren & Brown deflection series. They aren\u2019t cheap but they aren\u2019t expensive either. Plus they did have a gold edition which I personally wish I needed it so I could buy it. I didn\u2019t need it and couldn\u2019t justify it but check it out.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>

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My standard torque wrench is what the majority of techs and amateur techs use. So long as you don\u2019t go too cheap. Accuracy is important. It\u2019s something said over and over but it really is. I like the one I have as it\u2019s weighted well and has been calibrated easily with nearly no adjustments required. It\u2019s about 8 years over due for another calibration, but I don\u2019t use it for its precision these days. Plus my elbow\/shoulder click is pretty accurate these days\u2026 \u2018click\u2019..<\/p>\n

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What\u2019s the difference between one torque wrench and another? Are they all the same? Prices vary so dramatically but so does the design of it. So what\u2019s the better choice? Well it really does depend on what you need it for and who you are – a professional, amateur or professional amateur. Then you have to consider what brand do you go with and can you get away with something from Supercheap or do you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":417,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[29,21,32,30,31],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-toolsequipement","tag-tool","tag-toolporn","tag-torque","tag-torque-wrench","tag-wrench"],"aioseo_notices":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443,"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions\/443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uplategarage.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}