Have I been had.....

[Jamesh]

Just brought this tool wrench - have I been had??

White Label 1/2'' Reverse Ratchet Action Torque Wrench iso6789 approved 689749220810 | eBay

1/2" Drive White Label Torque Wrench. Durable all-steel construction has no plastic parts to break or wear out. High-contrast dual-range scale is easy to read, even in low light.

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Should have brought an autojack branded model I think....

 

[pappajohn]

What is wrong with it?

 

[dunnah01]

I bought a similar one many years ago - still got it and still works fine

 

[Tombola]

Sold 503 items, 100% positive feedback
doubtful

It can be a "wrench" parting with your money, but I doubt you have been "screwed" over,the seller doesnt seem too much of a "spanner" to me

 

[Spriddler]

What do you intend to use it for? Wheel nuts will be fine but its minimum is 20 ft/lb which would be too great for many of my needs, although when I was apprenticed at a R/Royce, Bentley and Jaguar cars main dealership in the 60's nobody used a toque wrench but just spanners of an appropriate length.

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[ChrisL]

Normally you get what you pay for, a more expensive torque wrench might be calibrated closer then +/- 4% if you need that level of accuracy. Don't forget to unscrew the adjuster after use or you may put a permanent set in the spring making the wrench even less accurate.

 

[PP Bear]

Just the opposite, years of use for £15.49

 

[Tea Bag]

spanners of an appropriate length.

Hi.
" How tight does this need to be ?" ..... " Keep tightening until your knuckles bleed ." Mains Water Pipelines... .
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[ChrisL]

Just the opposite, years of use for £15.49

As I said it depends on the level of accuracy you need, does the value torque wrench come with a calibration sheet so you can allow for discrepancies between what the wrench is set at and what it is actually delivering? If you're not to worried about accuracy you could save yourself £15.49 and use spanners of appropriate length and experience of how tight is tight enough without over stressing the fixing.

 

[Spriddler]

Hi.
" How tight does this need to be ?" ..... " Keep tightening until your knuckles bleed ." Mains Water Pipelines... .
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A bit like this appropriate length torque wrench then

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[L' Hobo]

I would doubt the accuracy of anything that cost £15.49 but...........that's just me! (I'm always reminded of my Merchant Navy days in the mid 60's when Genuine Rolex could bought at Steamer Point, Aden and sold cheaply to sailors.

They had Bamboo main spring (genuine ones were impossible to buy) which could be wound up a few times, just long enough for the ship to sail, and by the time the ship had got to Mombasa, the Bamboo had lost it's tension.

 

[ChrisL]

Just as a slight aside on tightening fixings, we used to use flogging spanners to tighten flange fixings on wellhead's, for those not familiar with flogging spanners they are like a ring spanner but have a large rectangular head on the other end which you hit with a sledge hammer, these flanges had to withstand a pressure of around 1400 bar and the fixings were tightened in diagonal sequence, you knew when they were tight enough because the sound of the hammer hitting the spanner changed, primitive but effective, I never had one that failed pressure testing

Flogging spanner.

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[Orion]

Hi.
" How tight does this need to be ?" ..... " Keep tightening until your knuckles bleed ." Mains Water Pipelines... .

Tighten until the bolt head shears off …….. then go back a 1/4 turn.

 

[Spriddler]

When I worked at Falmouth shipyard I was fascinated by the hydraulic 'spanners' used to tighten the (sacrificial) bolts on ships' propeller shaft flanges.
(Yes, I will get out more).