HF Torque Wrench

WNYBill

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Looking at the 1/4 inch ratchet torque wrench at Harbor Freight because it measures in inch pounds. Am I wasting my money or are they fairly accurate? I am looking for repetability as well as initial accuracy. Will be torquing action screws on a rifle to 60 inch pounds.

Bill
 
Lots of calibration videos on You Tube . One for 1/4 inch drive .You can test it out anyway and know if it is good or not. If the price is cheap.
 
You get what you pay for. They gave me one at the last plant I worked at. First time seemed to work fine. Next but it didn't. Stripped the nut. Tried it a few more times with pretty much the same result. Gave it back and bought my own CDI from Amazon. About a $100 but it worked right every time.
 
I bought a 3/8" one from them years back. Ended up stretching some studs because it didn't click when it was supposed to. I threw it in the scrap. I'd look for a nice used name brand wrench.

Harbor freight's may be better now, but it left a bad taste in my mouth...
 
You can get a name brand torque wrench from Amazon for around the same price as HF. I bought a Tekton 1/4-inch wrench and it was dead on according to a digital torque meter.
 
Jeff they are like that still out of the box you need to click em a few tuned and then the free up and work well but if you take it out of the box and torque something small you?ll be in trouble
 
Depends on what you are doing. I buy mostly HF tools but if accuracy was important I would buy a torque wrench elsewhere. If you are just trying to keep from breaking bolts then any torque wrench would do.
 

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