Sometimes you find the best tools because they are not for bikes.

[PCeBiker]

Awesome!!
I didn't know it was available on Amazon, but they don't ship to Canada,..

I can get a set of two for $160 all in.

I might do it?
I think they're fricken cool as well as functional.

They've got the reliability of a regular spring.
No fancy clicky stuff that goes out of spec.

They'd be funner to own than any other torque wrench.

 

[PCeBiker]

I can get a set of two for $160 all in.

It turns out that is in US dollars.

I can get the single red (0-65 in/lb) fix it stick for $133 CAD.

 

[spokewrench]

It turns out that is in US dollars.

I can get the single red (0-65 in/lb) fix it stick for $133 CAD.


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This intrigues me.

Amazon.com

It goes to 6Nm at 2% accuracy and warns not to exceed 7.2Nm (62 inch pounds). It reads torque as you go and warns when you're getting close. You can switch between measuring systems.

If it uses the same technology as a 5kg digital kitchen scale I bought 8 years ago for $16, it may be very reliable in the long term. The scale measures the strain on a metal bar. Lately I bought a set of 7 calibration weights from 1 to 100g. That gives me 128 possible combinations up to 188g. After 3,000 days of weighings several times a day amid the food and water that splash around the counter, it read correctly at every combination I tried. At 188g, that would be within 0.27%!

 

[PCeBiker]

Hmmm,..
I don't like it because it's digital and it takes batteries.

My concern would be checking the calibration. A digital scale is easy to check with the weights you have, but a torque wrench pretty much needs special equipment to test it accurately.

I still like the mechanical spring in the fix-it-stick. I'm more inclined to trust it in the long term.

 

[spokewrench]

My concern would be checking the calibration. A digital scale is easy to check with the weights you have, but a torque wrench pretty much needs special equipment to test it accurately.

Modern valve cores require more torque than they once did, and I didn't know the spec. Three years ago I bought a Slime valve core torque tool, set up a device where I added water to a 2-liter soda bottle to apply torque to it, and found that it clicked and slipped at 4.8 inch pounds. I guess the spec is 5.

 

[PCeBiker]

Yeah that gets tricky.

I made a torque wrench for my axle nut using my body weight at about 11" from the fulcrum to get me in the ballpark,..

That was before I bought my big torque wrench for over $100

I used that torque wrench twice before I quit driving. Now it sits unused.

 

[spokewrench]

Yeah that gets tricky.

I made a torque wrench for my axle nut using my body weight at about 11" from the fulcrum to get me in the ballpark,..


That was before I bought my big torque wrench for over $100

I used that torque wrench twice before I quit driving. Now it sits unused.

My 1/2" torque wrench goes to 140 foot pounds. That wasn't nearly enough for lug nuts installed with an impact wrench and no adapter. I came up with 250 foot pounds by putting a pipe on a wrench and estimating how much weight I put on it. I supported the head of the wrench so the downward force on the pipe wouldn't tip the socket off the nut.

One still wouldn't budge and I was afraid to push harder. A propane torch lengthened the stud a few microns and the nut came loose easier than the others.

 

[spokewrench]

Yeah that gets tricky.

1/4" box wrench, string, soda bottle. Put the box end on the bit in the screwdriver so that the wrench is cantilevered horizontally and read the inch pounds. With a short, light wrench, it will probably be trivial. You can also calculate the approximate torque at the weight of the wrench times half the length.

Now slide the wrench off the bit. Weigh the string. Tie it to the open end of the wrench. Measure the distance from the suspension point to the center of the box end. Make the free end of the string a noose to hold the neck of the bottle.

Now weigh the bottle, add the weight of the string, multiply by the distance, and add the torque from the wrench itself. That's your expected reading. See how close the screwdriver comes. You might want to rest your hand on a table for stable readings. Try it with different water weights. Forty inch pounds would be a weight of 10 pounds (more than a gallon) at 4 inches.

 

[spokewrench]

I bought the torque screwdriver and I love it. It's 10" long but I think will work on most bicycle screws. It weighs almost as much as a can of beer. It came with certification showing that CW and CCW, it's right on at 1.20 and 6.00 Nm and within 1% at points between. In the future, it should be easy to check with a weight suspended from a 1/4" box wrench.

I like Peak Mode. I can tighten fasteners by feel, then look to see how much torque I applied, regardless of what limit I might have set. The photo shows that I'd used 1.18 Nm on a screw clamping the brake handle to the handlebar.

I checked my Slime valve core torque tool, which I measured at 4.8 inch pounds three years ago. On repeated checks with my digital screwdriver, it varied from 3.8 to 4.8. Well, Slime didn't claim it was a precision torque tool.

 

[PCeBiker]

It turns out that is in US dollars.

I can get the single red (0-65 in/lb) fix it stick for $133 CAD.


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I bought myself an All-in-one Fix-It-Stick Kit.
It came to $167 CAD all in.

Sometimes you find the best tools because they are not for bikes.​

That is correct.

I bought it from a gun shop in the US.
It's used to adjust the scope on your rifle.


IIRC,.. There's an Olympic sport where you cross country ski and shoot at targets?
Maybe someday there'll be a biathlon sport using guns and e-bikes?
Then every Olympian will have this torque wrench.

 

[PCeBiker]

Amazon.com

January 24, EnduroDriver, the fifth reviewer, posted a review saying you read the gauge as you turn.

If I had any class at all, I'd admit I was wrong. Instead, I'll accuse: Nice try, EnduroDriver!

The video in this link verifies that it is not a clicky type torque wrench.
It's a regular spring type gauge,..


FIX IT STICKS Tightening +/- 10% Accurate 15-65 inch-lbs All-In-One Torque Driver Tool

https://www.amazon.com/vdp/0250f617415645afae04b60cb72eda0c?product=B08S79RLF2&ref=cm_sw_em_r_ib_mb_RcTx8VNB38S5i

 

[PCeBiker]

It's on the way,...
I'm Excited !!!

It's probably going to get stopped at the border because the package probably has "Rifle" written on it.

 

[spokewrench]

It's probably going to get stopped at the border because the package probably has "Rifle" written on it.

Years ago the postmaster returned a box to the sender without even telling me because it was from a tobacconist. Fortunately, the tobacconist didn't put a sign on the box telling everyone to rifle through it. The new law was about cigarettes, not tobacco. It was to help states cash in on cigarette sin taxes. I was buying pipe tobacco. The 1964 surgeon general's report said cigarettes kill, but pipe smokers live 3 years longer than people who never smoked.

 

[PCeBiker]

. The 1964 surgeon general's report said cigarettes kill, but pipe smokers live 3 years longer than people who never smoked.

I was born in 1964 and started smoking when I was 21.
I've smoked a pack of 25 every day since then.
That's over 350,000 cigarettes.

I smoke my Vado in a pipe though.
That's probably why I've lived so long.

 

[spokewrench]

I was born in 1964 and started smoking when I was 21.
I've smoked a pack of 25 every day since then.
That's over 350,000 cigarettes.

I smoke my Vado in a pipe though.
That's probably why I've lived so long.

Shoestring. I smoked some in Asia when you were 3. That's what they once smoked all over the continent of North America. They would order pipestone from more than 1,000 miles away to make pipes to smoke it. They smoked broadleaf in the Caribbean because they didn't have good pipes. Broadleaf caught on in Europe because they could smoke it in cheap clay pipes made to smoke lavender petals. In 1602, the Reverend John Brereton smoked shoestring in a real pipe on Cape Cod. He said it was way better than the crap in London.

King "Bible" James was an antismoking fanatic until they learned to grow broadleaf in Virginia. He changed his tune because now he could be a drug kingpin. North American natives taught some Englishmen to make pipes good enough to smoke shoestring. Once they tried it, they'd never go back to broadleaf. What's more, shoestring would grow anywhere. When people switched, they could grow it in their yards, and James would have no monopoly. He made laws against growing tobacco in England, but it was too easy to hide. So he made laws about pipes. They could be made only under his license, to his specifications. Gradually, he and his successors modified the royal specs, making legal pipes less and less suitable for shoestring. If they searched your house and found an unlicensed pipe, it was prison.

Smoking broadleaf in a lavender pipe had been unhealthful, but it got worse as the monarchy modified the specs. By the time of the Crimean War, pipes were awful, and British soldiers fell in love with Russian cigarettes. One reason the effect was so potent was that the Russians made their cigarettes with shoestring. Make yourself a decent pipe and plant some shoestring. Just don't get caught with the pipe, or Charles III will send James Bond to neutralize you.