Michael I hope you gather a lot of useful information with this thread regarding torque wrenches. Your initial subject line has nothing to do with torque wrenches though, which will likely cause any information you gather to be un-findable for anybody else who wants to search the archives. I'm attempting to edit the subject using the web interface so whatever you learn can help others in the future. I think it is a good practice to have the main point of your thread-starting post captured in some way in your subject line.
Bill Lindsay El Cerrito, CA On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 3:23:22 AM UTC-7, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > I am an old man in a dry month, > Being read to by a boy waiting for the rain. > T.S. Eliot > > Yep, guys in lycra now go by so fast they don''t have time to say hello. > I see that my bike repair manual has a 1981 copyright. My tools are all > pretty much old too, but aging better than me. Arthritis in my left hand, > and I can no longer trust the strength in my arms to tell me when a bolt is > tight enough. I can't hold the old beam style torque wrench and bend over > to read it at the same time. > > Sooooo, I need a one of those "new" clique style, or electronic torque > wrench. But which one? and ouch look at the price! I looked at a > Craftsman, but the online reviews were not encouraging. Ditto, > surprisingly, for Park. And of course for complete bike coverage one > really needs two torque wrenches. Topeak sells one that covers the full > range of our needs but there are no dealers here in northern VT, so I would > have to go to Quebec and buy one with the owners manual in French. Or, > sight unseen, online, for a whopping $269. > > What's your experience? > > Michael > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
