Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive, with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far -- everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

Doesn't really matter whether it's calibrated in inch-pounds or newton-meters.
I can do the conversion in my head. If I can just find a wrench with the range
I want.

TIA...

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
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Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive, with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far -- everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

Doesn't really matter whether it's calibrated in inch-pounds or newton-meters.
I can do the conversion in my head. If I can just find a wrench with the range
I want.

TIA...

You need two, I did.

"Tom Gardner" wrote in message
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"Doug Miller" wrote in message
...
Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive,
with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far --
everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

Doesn't really matter whether it's calibrated in inch-pounds or
newton-meters.
I can do the conversion in my head. If I can just find a wrench with the
range
I want.

TIA...

You need two, I did.


I use two as well. Accuracy is important and that is a large range that not
even I'd trust my Snap-On Digitorque to. You really do need two separate
tools and make sure they do not have a reversing mechanism. Some bone-head
will invariably use it as a ratchet and you will then have to kill him as
that ruins em' every time.


Respects,

Rob Fraser


Fraser Competition Engines
Chicago, IL.

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
...
Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive,
with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far --
everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00061SNHK

On May 8, 8:53*pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive, with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far -- everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

Doesn't really matter whether it's calibrated in inch-pounds or newton-meters.
I can do the conversion in my head. If I can just find a wrench with the range
I want.

TIA...

I have at least 4, from 150 ft-lbs down to one meant for bicycle
spokes. and I need both extremes to reassemble the auto-locking hubs
on my truck.

A consumer-grade 100 in-lb torque wrench isn't necessarily accurate at
10 and it could let you break something delicate. The rule I heard was
not to use them much below half scale. The beam type may be safer
because you can easily see if it has been overloaded and bent. I
bought a 1/2" 8-point socket to check my click wrenches against a beam
one.

Jim Wilkins

In article ,
"John Kunkel" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
...
Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive,
with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far --
everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00061SNHK

IIRC, you work on aircraft?

On 2008-05-09, John Kunkel wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
...
Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive,
with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far --
everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00061SNHK

Hmm ... only a factor of twelve too large. He was looking for
inch-pounds, not foot-pounds.

And I'm not at all sure that I would trust one to be that
accurate at the bottom end of its range anyway. I think that the advice
of others that it should be done with two separate wrenches is the
better bet.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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In article , "John Kunkel" wrote:

"Doug Miller" wrote in message
...
Hoping to find a ratcheting torque wrench, in either 3/8" or 1/4" drive, with
a range of approximately 10 to 100 inch-pounds. No luck so far -- everything
I'm finding that goes down as low as 10 doesn't go any higher than 50.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00061SNHK

INCH-pounds. Not foot-pounds.