Welcome to 2022. Beam wrenches are not accurate and should have disappeared with the 70's.

Beam wrenches seem to be almost gone. Although far better than nothing. Guys my age still have some as that was all there was years ago. At first they replacements where very expensive as well. Still pricy for a really good one.

As my mind continues to fall to pieces. I was just thinking. To check if your torque wrench is still somewhat accurate. Mount the old beam type in a heavy vice. Up by the handle as the beam wrench operates by indicating the deflection of the shaft. Couple your click one to it head to head. The beam should clearly show the click torque. Or actually the inverse on the beam wrench as well. Although I do not think they can go out of calibration really. If the pointer is centered well still, Or if not you can add the correction to the situation.

It is early here this morning and I have not had a coffee yet. Cannot remember if a twelve point socket fits on a square head of the beam wrench. I suspect it will not at the moment. I will think of something as the brain thaws out though.

Access to a calibration checking device for click torque wrenches might be difficult for some. otherwise. .Getting your hands on a clicking socket with a fixed value could also be used. Typically used by tire shops today to install wheel lugs. Although I just refined it so you can do it with what you have or can easily get. Torque a wheel lug on with a beam torque wrench. To the tension the wheel stud or nut is required. Then using the same simple socket See if your click torque wrench clicks off at that set pressure as well. Or really close. I do not think I have read of this approach anywhere. Beats sending a click type torque wrench out for calibration checking.

Made in Taiwan or China. Might be a good ideal to check it right after buying anyways, Especially if it was really cheap. Cheap does not mean bad. At the same time they are not five hundred dollar snap on versions.

Have to love the wife. A coffee just appeared at the computoe desk. I better start drinking my coffee before this gets worse.

I am still stuck on the best item to couple the torque wrench to the old beam wrench. I think I have some odd ball sockets in the tool chests that are designed to couple to square items. May be eight point sockets. Many years ago there where square headed nuts as well as bolts. Just covering more basis as this is the less desirable approach and requires a large vice.

Printed torque figures can be wrong. If it looks like it is too much for the size of fastening. Double check with another source. I was doing a tractor once and asked the owner to find out the torque for the head bolts. He got the wrong information somewhere for me. I was just giving him a hand.

I though it was a little heavy but I did not work on tractors. Sure enough a head bolt broke on final torqueing. At least well above the deck height. I reused the new head gasket with real reservations. As I had torqued beyond the real final torque requirement on it . He just would not buy another head gasket and I had no liability as it was a favor for a neighbour. I made it clear in that case I did not like reusing the head gasket. Turned out he had no trouble after.

Since we are now deep into the information age, perhaps you could cite a credible source to support your claim that "Most torque wrenches are designed to work in only one direction."

For sure, the prevalence of the reversible ratcheting torque wrench and the dial-indicator wrench with mirror image scaling reasonably refute your claim, even in 2022. Furthermore, the ISO for torque wrench calibration requires that applicable torque wrenches be accurate in both directions.

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