Originally Posted by
rogerstg
Unless you're wrenching full time or making adjustments in a nuclear power plant, get the Park wrench. It doesn't get much simpler than a beam torque wrench for relative accuracy.
Maybe not full time, but with 4 bikes in the house to keep up with, I am using my torque wrench several times per week. I opted for the (expensive!) Effetto Mariposa (
http://www.effettomariposa.com/prodotti_en.html), but I like to have good quality tools because I buy them once and keep them for my whole life.
I believe Park makes two wrenches, a high and a low torque. I just use a Craftsman for high-torque. It is the low torque stuff that is sensitive and the Mariposa goes up to 16 Nm (about 140 inch lbs).