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A customer in Toledo told me my torque wrench clicks were too fast to hear. Bought a digital one the next day.
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oliviabennett1mo ago
Too fast to hear? That's wild.
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vera54124d ago
Actually, a beam wrench is a solid backup, but it's not just about the batteries. The real issue with digital is sometimes they can drift if you don't calibrate them. My shop's old digital one started reading like 5 ft-lbs low and we over-torqued a whole set of lug nuts before we caught it. That click type, if you can hear it, is just more reliably dumb, lol. You gotta trust your tools, and sometimes simpler is better.
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jade4951mo ago
Yeah, "clicks were too fast to hear" is a real problem with some of the louder shop environments. @oliviabennett, it sounds wild until you're trying to listen for it over an air compressor and a radio. Going digital was a smart move by that customer. The visual readout takes the guesswork out completely, you just watch for the number or the flash. I keep a cheap beam-style wrench as a backup for when batteries die, though.
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