If you used a crowsfoot wrench on the torque wrench could you not bench
test it?
ie- tighten a nut & bolt in your vise both with and without the
crowsfoot and compare the difference? 22lbs without would equate
to.......?
Just another thought.
Safety Faster
Andy Proudfoot 77B
Gander, Nfld.
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From: dresden@tiac.net
To: mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: RE: torque settings MG was WooHoo - sort of. <G>
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 5:44PM
>At 08:44 AM 4/8/99 EDT, MG4EVR@aol.com wrote:
>>
>>In a message dated 4/8/99 6:33:18 AM, proudfa@NAVCANADA.CA writes:
>>
>><<adjustment nuts -- especially since there's no way to use a torque
>>wrench
>>and screw driver at the same time.>>
>>
>>a crowsfoot socket will work....
>>
>
>Hmmm. A crowsfoot socket, eh? I guess I'll try to find out what a
>crowsfoot socket is, and where to get one.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave Sylvain
>72 B
For all who don't know:
A crowsfoot socket( also called crowsfoot wrench, or just plain old
crowsfoot) looks like the end sawed off an open end wrench, and a little
nub(?) with a square hole.(In standard drive sizes). I don't own any,
they're handy but not often needed. I would probably try an auto parts
store or a decent hardware store for that.
I'd imagine that since that little nub is ever so slightly off center
from
the actual nut or bolt that you're turning, that it would skew the
torque
figures very slightly, but probably not enough to worry about. In fact,
you
could probably recalculate the torque based on the length of your torque
wrench and the amount of offset, but that's for the people with the big
green eyeshades as far as I'm concerned...
Nevin
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