It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Guy King saying something like:
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Torque Wrenches - the bigger ones
May 15, 2004
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The brand is AmTech - worth it?? Cheapest I can find from motor factors locally is one made by Laser @ £24 + VAT (so about £30) from Camberley Auto Factors.
Screwfix have one here:
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....but don't mention the brand. It's only £10.49 though.
Peter
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The brand is AmTech - worth it?? Cheapest I can find from motor factors locally is one made by Laser @ £24 + VAT (so about £30) from Camberley Auto Factors.
Screwfix have one here:
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....but don't mention the brand. It's only £10.49 though - just phoned them up and it's supplied to them by a company called Kinzo. Anyone had any experience of these? Screwfix generally have a good reputation so maybe worth the chance, and if it does break I can always scream and shout at them :-)
Peter
Well they're both cheap chinese tools, depends on whether or not you care.
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When you refer to "both", which are you referring two - I mentioned 3:
AmTech (one on ebay), Laser (CAF), Kinzo (Screwfix).
Basically I want one that's going to be accurate. The jobs I'm doing involve torques that are safety crucial, i.e. 200Nm for the hub bolt, around
120Nm for the nuts at each end of the anti roll bar, similarly high torques for the anti-roll bar clamp nuts/bolts (or is it nuts that screw onto studs, it doesn't make it clear), similarly high amounts of torque for the flange bolts connecting the driveshaft to the gearbox, etc etc.., so I want things to be done to the correct torque!! I'm capable of doing the jobs myself, the only thing I don't possess to be able to do the jobs (other than the parts which I've yet to buy) is a decent torque wrench that goes up to 200Nm, so it's got to be fairly accurate. I don't suppose it's going to have much of an effect if it's a few percent inaccurate, as nothing's going to be 100% accurate, but if the cheaper stuff's likely to be miles out then I'd rather spend more.My local Cafco have a Sealey one for around £72, but reading about people getting Draper ones for less than £20 brand new does make me wonder where I can get them from!!
Peter
The British Standards +-4% anyway. The Sealey & the Draper are pretty similar but they're all cheap units. For £72 you can buy a Britool.
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All sound pretty much crap! I don't think you could rely on any of those to give anything like an accurate reading.
Mebbe was unlucky had a set of Teng combo spanners where the 13 and 17 ring keys were pressed off centre....they didn`t grip too well.
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Wonder how much calibration check is if your really concerned:
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You`ll be happier with a Britool than an Amtech....
Adam
Never have liked the look of their spanners, Signet spanners are excellent, and cheap with it.
Strange you mention Signet just borrowed a 2` Signet powerbar, with the better idea of solid bar and swinging drive forked over the bar, rather than the one I managed to snap which had the bar forked round the drive block, the pin becomes weakest link. Learned that anti roll bar ends can have reverse threads.
Adam
do you have a partco near you?
Bill
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