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Maybe I should buy one of these...

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp ... oup_ID=988

and start my own local torque wrench calibration service. Device has a list price of $52K. Accurate to +/- 0.25% Torque range of 15 in/oz to 2000 ft/lbs

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Richard Casto
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Money can't buy happiness, but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.

With all of the cheap bastards in this club, it would likely be one of your great-great-great-great grandchildren who is able to make $$ off of that.




Bret

Hey....wait just a minute..... I RESEMBLE that remark!!

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Rob Harvey
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1997 BMW M3
1992 Acura Integra (Simon)

For calibration you can use a pointer type to cal the click type.

For what its worth I bought, and this should be NO surprise to people that know me, the cheap torque wrench from Harbor Freight. And I abuse it. Use it as a breaker bar, use it to torque wheel nuts, etc. I have another that I don't abuse and they show the same torque (set both to 80 and both click on a nut torqued by one).

Harbor Freight will occasionally run a sale on these for around $11 or so. Hard deal to beat!

Ron

rob was over the other night and we compared my $100 craftsman 25-250lber to his harbor frieght at 80lftlbs on some lug bolts.

we tightened a bolt w/ one, and then checked w/ the other and then switched. neither moved the bolt further before clicking...

so i guess at that setting they were pretty darn close. no telling how either will hold up long term or at different settings. itd be interesting to see though

FWIW, I think that one of the local Snap-on or MAC Tool trucks could either calibrate your wrench on-site or send it off for you and get it done. Might not be a bad idea if you're doing an engine, since you're working with M8 through, say, M12 bolts, where fastener elongation and pre-load really becomes important.

Probably not needed to torque wheel bolts, since you're really looking for equal torque on all studs, not necessarily making them "exactly" 83 ft.-lbs.

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Brad

My father use to be the Snap-On Tool Dealer in Cary and I can tell you he definitely didn't have the capability to do that on the truck. He did send them off for customers though to have it done.

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Stephen Westerfield
2009 Infiniti M35 | 2007 Honda Fit Sport | 2005 Ford Mustang GT |2000 GMC Sierra |1992 Acura Integra LS | Super Westerfield Bros Acura Integra