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Another Fat Wrench user here. It comes with a little chart with their testing measurements. Any torque wrench is 100 times better than doing it by "feel".
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I’ve used the Fat Wrench for years, no complaints
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For many years all we needed was a screwdriver. But that was before they started using tin foil for scope tubes.
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Fat Wrench here works just fine for me.
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I have the CDI as well. I use a CDI that adjust from 5-40 inch pounds. It's worked well for my needs
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The " Fat Wrench" gets them as close as I need.
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I use one I got from Brownells. Works well for me.
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Got my Fat Wrench about 4 years ago. No complaints. No problems with anything I've used it on. It's much better than when I used to do that stuff by feel. Once upon a time about 20-25 years ago I was one of those guys who was from the "Farmer Tight" school of thought. Then I progressed to the inch pound by feel method, which is B.S.. That Fat Wrench was a worthwhile expense.
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I have had a Snap on, 1/4 drive. for years, , --- buy once, cry once Do you have the QD1R50?
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Torque wrenches are for kids who haven’t had much experience with fasteners Once you develop a feel for machinery it is really easy to tell when it is right, things like lubrication or threadlockers make a torque wrench redundant
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Originally bought years ago, for work, but does double duty
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I have had a Snap on, 1/4 drive. for years, , --- buy once, cry once Same here.
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I use a Borka its a handy compact kit for my range bag was on sale at the time. BorkaThis.
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Torque wrenches are for kids who haven’t had much experience with fasteners Once you develop a feel for machinery it is really easy to tell when it is right, things like lubrication or threadlockers make a torque wrench redundant I agree with most of your posts..........you missed the mark on this one
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Torque wrenches are for kids who haven’t had much experience with fasteners Once you develop a feel for machinery it is really easy to tell when it is right, things like lubrication or threadlockers make a torque wrench redundant Total BS.
I got banned on another web site for a debate that happened on this site. That's a first
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It is easy to calibrate a cheap torque wrench. It is much harder to explain how to calculate the max torque for a screw or tapped hole. The breakthrough for me in calculating max torque for a screw or a hole was reading a post in 2008 by a Caterpillar engineer. 1.5 root = 1.5x minor diameter https://www.practicalmachinist.com/vb/general/tapped-thread-depth-strength-question-153783/without all this math. which i despise. i will just tell you what caterpillar standard is.
1 to 1.2 x Dia in steel or cast iron. 1.5 - 2 x Dia in amuminum or other softer metals.
there really is nothing that requres more than 1.5 x as that will generally break even grade 8 hardware before pulling out. 2x if your really worried, and the material is really crappy.That combined with this link where there is max torque on dry screws, 75% max toque on oil or greased threads, and 50% torque on waxed threads. http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=143701I had never realized that screws and bolts break almost all in tension stress and not in torque stress. Torque may cause the tension, but the max tension of the steel is how to calculate the max torque. Given enough female threads, the weak link is the screw breaking. That can be found in table for different grades of bolts. https://www.engineersedge.com/torque_table_sae.htmWith all this information I was able to figure out how much torque I could apply to shallow 10-32 holes I was drilling and tapping into a Mosin Nagant for a scope base.
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps
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I just tighten them down by hand.
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