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Hot take: a 20 year hangar vet in Wichita got on me for torque wrench habits
He caught me leaving my clicker set at 40 in-lbs overnight in my box and asked if I wanted to keep guessing at preload, so now I back it off to zero after every job and log it on the tag, and honestly I want to know how many of you actually do this or if I'm the only one who had to be shamed into it.
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alice9281d ago
Why would you leave it wound up at 40 all night? That spring is sitting there tired for no reason. A clicker is a measuring tool, not a clamp you store with a load on it. Backing it to zero takes two seconds and your tag log costs nothing. I have seen guys chase a bad torque reading for a whole shift because somebody stored theirs hot. Do it once and it just becomes part of putting your box away. Good on the old guy for speaking up.
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