anyone else get frustrated by their tools!? well no more!

[chrisr103]

My tool kit thats about to go on Ebay









Think i'll be spending the next few days cleaning it & sorting them all out

[VW BUSH]

Manoskop (Stahlwille) torque wrenches are the best, going past the click, undoing or leaving it set does it no damage.
Not cheap, I got mine free

[scarr89]

to be fair, when have most people checked the calibration on there own torque wrench 

and most will have left them loaded up at some point 

I bet there is only a few organisations in the world who 'check' their torque wrenches, and even then they usually get penned up! ...Unless it is the seat kit 

[Seanl]

to be fair, when have most people checked the calibration on there own torque wrench 

and most will have left them loaded up at some point 

I bet there is only a few organisations in the world who 'check' their torque wrenches, and even then they usually get penned up! ...Unless it is the seat kit 

Mr Scarr, you should know that all our testing and precision equipment gets sent off for calibration WITHOUT FAIL when required! I was the GPTME custodian on my last ship, and its an absolute ball ache! I very much doubt precision equipment gets checked by most other agencies, but electrical test equipment (which is ultimately a safety device by default) should be tested by law.

[spudboy6]

to be fair, when have most people checked the calibration on there own torque wrench 

and most will have left them loaded up at some point 

I bet there is only a few organisations in the world who 'check' their torque wrenches, and even then they usually get penned up! ...Unless it is the seat kit 

Mr Scarr, you should know that all our testing and precision equipment gets sent off for calibration WITHOUT FAIL when required! I was the GPTME custodian on my last ship, and its an absolute ball ache! I very much doubt precision equipment gets checked by most other agencies, but electrical test equipment (which is ultimately a safety device by default) should be tested by law.

The stealership I work in have our equipment calibrated every 6months

[JC]

to be fair, when have most people checked the calibration on there own torque wrench 

and most will have left them loaded up at some point 

I bet there is only a few organisations in the world who 'check' their torque wrenches, and even then they usually get penned up! ...Unless it is the seat kit 

Mr Scarr, you should know that all our testing and precision equipment gets sent off for calibration WITHOUT FAIL when required! I was the GPTME custodian on my last ship, and its an absolute ball ache! I very much doubt precision equipment gets checked by most other agencies, but electrical test equipment (which is ultimately a safety device by default) should be tested by law.

Been there done that got a load of old torque wrenches that were out of limits during Monthly cal checks 

[Bellend]

Got a Halfords Pro one today as repaired my old one and it re-shattered during a 180nm torque session. I then took the old one apart and put an arc welder to it which kept tripping the crappy 15amp breaker wired up to two garages and a BIG pool pump. It now resides as another 1/2" breaker bar.

I had a Honda Civic to do a cambelt on. I made a tool up for it rather then ordering and waiting for one.



Excuse the building works going on in the background.

Cut to size:


This is the bugger:


Works PERFECTLY:


Used the remaining 50mm box section on that tiny 1/2"  angled thing whatever it's original use was for and undid straight away. Heard the snap and thought one of the extensions had gone but was fine.

Need some more 3/4" and 1" extensions and sockets.

The eagle eyed may notice the nut is slightly facing downwards. Allows it to sit flush on the chassis legs. Bit of a guess bit it worked. Cleaned the nasty welds up and gonna paint it and keep it.