Michael - Based on everything you've had to say about physiological issues, I'd say go for the Sears tool. Looks like a reasonably priced, well placed for bike work solution.
On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 5:12:01 PM UTC-5, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > OP here. To answer some questions. Why do I want to move to a click > style torque wrench? For most of the 35+ years as an adult riding and > working on bikes I felt very comfortable with my internal sense of whether > a bolt was tight or not. I don't ride carbon and it never occurred to me > to use a torque wrench. Time marches on; the hands, arms, and back loose > strength slowly and our judgment gets compromised. In the last five years > I have overtightened and broken the clamp on a very good Chorus FD; I have > also undertightened and eventually damaged a very good Record FD. I have > undertigtened the left side of a crank arm, at which point I started using > my ratchet instead of allen keys and bought a beam style torque wrench to > double check crank bolts. I found I couldn't hold the tool in tension and > bend over far enough to read it accurately. (I have to admit that at that > point I had never seen nor heard of click style torque wrenches.) This > summer, while up in Ontario for the Canadian Tandem Rally I heard the > irritating clicking of not tight enough chain ring bolts (tandems have 15 > of em and how tight are they supposed to be anyway). That's when I began > to think it would be wise to check my judgement with a tool. > > I found this AC Delco on the Sears web site. > http://www.sears.com/durofix-ac-delco-power-tools-durofix-ac-delco-power/p-SPM7423422303?prdNo=28&blockNo=28&blockType=G28 > > It's 2 -37 ft/lbs seems perfect for bike work. > > Bill, thanks for your feedback about subject lines. What was I thinking? > > Michael > > > On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 5:14:33 PM UTC-4, Patrick Moore wrote: >> >> Me, I use mine only for crank bolts; this after cracking a very expensive >> Topline Superlight crank, some 18 years ago, by torquing down the mounting >> bolts too enthusiastically. >> >> OTOH, if you adjust your bike with vise grips and pipe wrench, you really >> don't need to worry. >> >> On Thu, Jul 21, 2016 at 2:07 PM, Scott McLain <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Okay, I am relatively new here and don't want to sound like a heretic, >>> but I personally don't use a torque wrench. Certain torque wrenches need >>> to be re-calibrated periodically. I would be curious to know what bolt >>> connection the riv folks use a torque wrench for versus just putting things >>> on using common sense. >>> >>> I bought a new bike many years back from a new shop and the owner built >>> it up, all using a torque wrench. I was there as he was finishing up. I >>> was impressed. I thought, wow he's using a torque wrench. Well on my >>> first ride, my handle bars and my crank was loose... very loose. >>> Obviously, he needed a new torque wrench or to have his calibrated. >>> >>> I love the appeal that come with using a torque wrench, but I think you >>> still want to use common sense. >>> >>> -- 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.
