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Posted: 4/13/2009 11:16:47 AM EDT
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I want to get a decent adjustable torque screwdriver to use with my guns but I am unsure what to purchase. I was planning on buying the fat wrench from midway but it turns out that that thing is junk. Any suggestions on what to buy will be appreciated.
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Sorry, no suggestions on what to buy, but a word of advice, pay attention to how low the torque range it can go to as well as how high. Ran into that problem with auto work, got a large and small torque wrench, without much thought into the range of all the jobs I would need to do, found several jobs I needed to do, that the torque wrench I bought wouldn't go low enough to set the specified torque.
Don't know about screw drivers, but most torque wrenches are advertised by the max torque they can set and its never mentioned the lowest torque you can set into them, it usually falls way short of zero and when you got a job that requires 13 in-lbs, and then last mark on your wrench is 48in-lbs, you don't know what to do. |
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Try one of these. Try to buy a range where most of your work falls in the middle for best results.
http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/tools.asp?tool=all&Group_ID=16437&store=snapon-store 
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I want to get a decent adjustable torque screwdriver to use with my guns but I am unsure what to purchase. I was planning on buying the fat wrench from midway but it turns out that that thing is junk. Any suggestions on what to buy will be appreciated. Thanks I actually use the FAT wrench. While it is inexpensive, I wouldn't call it junk. For torquing screws in small things like gas blocks or scope mounts, it's just fine. |
| I found some nasco torque screwdrivers on ebay for $20 a pop or so. They are more for electronics and are meant to be set and forget but the repeatability is excellent and they can be set from 5 to 25 inchpounds. I have one set for 5 inlbs and one for 20. I use the 5 for getting things all nice and even first then crank down with the other one. |
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