Originally Posted by
CCrew
Operator is correct. And a decent torque wrench is a precision tool, not one to be dropped on the floor or just thrown around loosely.
Who said anything about throwing it around? Of course Operator is correct; the right tool for the job. I'm just pullin' his strings, he's easy to set off.
Originally Posted by
CCrew
I'll tell you like I was told, and I grew up with a father that owned a precision machine shop: : "There's no such thing as a calibrated elbow" which is why you use the proper tool. Since all his work was MIL-SPEC, all tools like that had to be sent out to be calibrated.
This torque wrench was bought new, so I can only assume it was properly calibrated and had asked if it could be checked.