Don't feel too bad; I'm right there with you - takes me a half hour every morning to stretch the stiffness and soreness out of my lower back and hamstrings before I can put on my shoes. I can't speak to the current trends in torque wrenches; I have a Craftsman non-electronic "click" style that I bought way back in the late 70's for mainly automotive use that seems to work OK. Don't know how accurate it is, though. I have a neighbor who is an absolute car nut - has two restored early 60's British sports cars in his garage - and he tells me that none of these digital or similar wrenches are as accurate as the older beam style. But, just curious, what are you using it for? The only two applications where I've felt that a torque wrench might really be necessary in bike maintenance is installing the fixing rings on a PW BB and tightening the lock ring on a cassette hub.
On Thursday, July 21, 2016 at 5:23:22 AM UTC-5, Michael Hechmer wrote: > > I am an old man in a dry month, > Being read to by a boy waiting for the rain. > T.S. Eliot > > Yep, guys in lycra now go by so fast they don''t have time to say hello. > I see that my bike repair manual has a 1981 copyright. My tools are all > pretty much old too, but aging better than me. Arthritis in my left hand, > and I can no longer trust the strength in my arms to tell me when a bolt is > tight enough. I can't hold the old beam style torque wrench and bend over > to read it at the same time. > > Sooooo, I need a one of those "new" clique style, or electronic torque > wrench. But which one? and ouch look at the price! I looked at a > Craftsman, but the online reviews were not encouraging. Ditto, > surprisingly, for Park. And of course for complete bike coverage one > really needs two torque wrenches. Topeak sells one that covers the full > range of our needs but there are no dealers here in northern VT, so I would > have to go to Quebec and buy one with the owners manual in French. Or, > sight unseen, online, for a whopping $269. > > What's your experience? > > Michael > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
