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Old 02-01-11 | 09:54 AM
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I have a few, being an LBS wrench. I usually recommend Park Tool's beam-type for home users, not their clickers. Beam is cheap. Beam is tough. Beam gives you continuous readout so you can see what's happening. Beam doesn't go out of calibration if/when you forget to zero the wrench after using it, because it's self-zeroing. And beam doesn't require setting and unsetting, which is probably less of an issue when you aren't using it all day.

If you feel beam is not chic enough, get some Precision Instruments dial-types, wooooo dials! They share most of the benefits of beam, other than arguably toughness.



They're not a cure-all, you'll still need to go in rotation on multi-bolt clamps and make sure the clamp's coming together as designed. And I've seen stuff break anyway, bikes simply are not in the same engineering league as aircraft or BMWs.

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