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Re: Greg Meboe - Torque and Engineers

To: rhamilto@fox.nstn.ns.ca
Subject: Re: Greg Meboe - Torque and Engineers
From: jerry@tr2.com (Jerome Kaidor)
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 1994 23:12:19 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Greg and all,
> 
> This was a great explanation done in true engineer style ;-)) and confirms 
> that what I've been doing when using an extension on a torque wrench. Well 
> done!

> torque testing machine and discovered that the expensive GREY wrench was 
> applying almost *twice* the amount of torque that it was set for. The 
> "cheap" Can. Tire wrench was almost bang on. 
> 

**** I do have my doubts about those fancy "clicker" torque wrenches.  I 
have more trust in the simple beam-deflection wrenches, because there's 
really nothing in them to go out of calibration, unless the steel of the
wrench were to somehow lose its temper.


                                           - Jerry Kaidor



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