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Met a retired Delta guy at O'Hare back in 2018 who showed me a thing or two about torque wrenches
I was stuck waiting on parts for a Cessna 172 at ORD and this older guy in a beat up leather jacket walks over. He saw my torque wrench sitting on the toolbox and said you're probably clicking that thing wrong more than half the time. Then he spent maybe 20 minutes showing me how to calibrate it by feel with a simple spring test. He said most mechanics treat them like magic wands instead of tools you gotta understand. I still think about that advice every time I hear that click. Has anyone else had a random encounter like that where a stranger just dropped some serious knowledge on you?
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abbyg1422d ago
Wait, isn't the spring test more for checking beam style wrenches though?
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@abbyg14 yeah you might be right about that. I always thought the spring test was more for feel than actual calibration, like it's more about getting a sense of the tool's behavior than making it precise. Honestly though, how often are we torquing stuff down to the exact spec anyway? A lot of times a good click and a snug feel gets the job done without splitting hairs. I think a lot of these "rules" get blown way out of proportion for daily work.
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