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While getting my cheap valve stems replaced today, I noticed the tire shop wasn't too knowledgeable about the torque recommendations. So I intervened to make sure they weren't going too tight. I told ...
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mgirardo wrote:jfkmk wrote:Goostoff wrote:
My most commonly used one is the 19mm 100 ft lb and I usually test it every couple months with a torque wrench to make sure it is still doing its job.
Can you explain how you test the torque of the torque stick with a torque wrench? They need to be used with an impact wrench set to a certain torque range to work right, so unless you're beating your torque wrench to death, I don't see how you're doing this. Yeah, you might see the stick start to twist a little, but that's no indication of how much torque you might be putting on a nut or bolt while using it.
I would expect he uses the torque stick to tighten the nut to the specified torque. Then takes his torque wrench to see if it indeed tightened to that amount of torque.
-Michael
Not getting it. Using this method, say he uses a 100 ft lb stick. Then he takes his torque wrench the nut. If he can turn the nut without the wrench clicking off, then he can certainly know it was under torqued. But, if it clicks off at 100 ft lbs, how does he know the stick didn't have it up to, say, 115 ft lbs?
