torque wrench question

cjmatt

cjmatt

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I borrowed a click type torque wrench from Gary on here this week to assemble my motor. It is a 10-150 type and he has had it calibrated within the last year. Well, yesterday while picking up some 12 point sockets I needed, I noticed that Craftsman sells the dial type that you bend relatively inexpensive. So last night I start putting them together and out of my morbid curiousity, decided to check them against eachother. I could torque a bolt to 80lbs lets say, then on the bend type, take it up close to that 80 lbs, and it would lower back down, like the bolt was giving. All of the head bolts would take an extra 1/8 turn to get to the 80 level, although the wrench went almost to 80 initially.

Is there a special way to torque the bend type, or am I just an idiot who cant read a click type the same way? I guess I could be setting it 10 lower based on how it reads. The zero line on the rotator doesnt line up to a particular "10" value
 
On the type that you turn the base of the torque wrench to adjust the torque the number of the torque is above the line
 
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whattya mean? lets say I want to set it to 50lbft. The dial has 0-9 on it. So I obviously want it to be at 50 and at 0, but at 0, its still somewhere between the 40 and 50 marks
 
Some torque wrenches have 0-15 on them depending on the increments between the numbers. What increments are yours in 10-20-30-40- or 0-15-30-45 ect.?
 
I should of read that post before I submitted it, it didnt make any sense lol.
This pic should kinda represent the wrench you are talking about. I may be mis interpreting what your trying to ask though :lol:

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red347lx said:
Some torque wrenches have 0-15 on them depending on the increments between the numbers. What increments are yours in 10-20-30-40- or 0-15-30-45 ect.?
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superstang9085 said:
I should of read that post before I submitted it, it didnt make any sense lol.
This pic should kinda represent the wrench you are talking about. I may be mis interpreting what your trying to ask though :lol:

torque.jpg
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yes. mine is like that. it is in increments of 10. My question is that there are marks on the rotating handle that go from 0 thru 9, that way i can go to 58 for example. So I would assume that the 0 would line up on line with the increment of 10, but it doesnt.
 
red347lx said:
BUY A SNAP ON!!!!!!!!!!! Problem Solved
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haha im not dropping 300 for a wrench I hopefully only need to use once. I actually kinda like using the one that bends, but its kind of a pain for tightening larger amounts and trying to keep it steady and watch the dial
 
cjmatt said:
yes. mine is like that. it is in increments of 10. My question is that there are marks on the rotating handle that go from 0 thru 9, that way i can go to 58 for example. So I would assume that the 0 would line up on line with the increment of 10, but it doesnt.
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Yeah in reality the 0 should line up with the line at 50, it may be off a little bit though
 
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