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Old 01-27-2006, 02:06 AM
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Good stuff. I have Harbor fright torque wrenches and I compared my 1/2" to a neighbors, and they were within 5% of the low and high end of each other. Either they are both totally wrong or they are pretty close. I do know that it is important to store the click types "loose".

Sears sells a torque wrench tester, but it's $1000, I think - I like tools, but I can't justify it (maybe a larger club could?). And of course, even that has to be calibrated eventually. Wish I still worked at a company with a factory - we had an entire metrology department that had EVERYTHING, and I mean, everything - and it was all traceable to NIST standards.
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