Date:         Wed, 5 Mar 2003 09:14:05 -0500
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Subject:      Re: boy, this really torques me off!!! ;)
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At 09:10 PM 3/4/03 -0600, Unca Joel wrote:

>anybody tried this thing yet? :)

We had one at a shop I used to work in.  It was for putting brass fittings
into aluminum air-pressure manifolds where the torque had to always be
something very precise (I don't remember what), but we assembled a bunch of
these a day, each with 8 brass fittings going in to it, and speed/ease of
assembly was nice.  I think ours was made by Snap-On, not Craftsman, but it
worked fine.  It was rigged to a circuit that went Beep at the right
torque.  The purpose was to save time, but I think it was just a neat toy
that the Snap-On guy managed to talk the boss in to.  I am more comfortable
with my clicking torque wrench, but that's just familiarity.