Date:         Sat, 21 May 2011 15:26:20 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
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From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: Steering wheel locked after replacing blower motor
Comments: To: Jeff Schwaia <vw.doka@gmail.com>
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At 02:25 PM 5/21/2011, Jeff Schwaia wrote:
>A quality click-type torque wrench is not as "iffy" as you may think.  I
>have 4 Snap-On click-type torque wrenches (1/4", 3/8", and two 1/2").  All
>of them are at least 10 years old (although one was recalibrated about 5
>years ago), and all of them tested out to less than a 5% deviation from
>indicated torque.

My Craftsman reads right with the beam wrench at 3-5 different
settings every time I check it.

>   That's pretty close (less the 1% off) to the
>specification for a brand new Snap-On wrench after 10+ years of use.  The
>biggest issue with click-type torque wrenches is that people do not back off
>the torque setting to 0 when storing them.

Ah yes - it says that right in the book, but if you don't read the book...

Yrs,
d