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Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a torque wrench as I have a few scope projects I want to do in the next little while. If I have to spend the money I will, but if a can buy a low cost solution, I would prefer that.

What is a good inexpensive torque wrench. I have seen a few things on Wheeler, but know nothing about them. Any opinions.

To complicate things further, would their be a torque wench out there that is good for the low torque requirements that are required for scopes, but can also go up higher (80-120) that can be double duty for my son's bicycle projects?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.
 
Take a look at "fix-it" sticks? it might be an option, and it certainly covers the basics in a relatively small package. Good Luck.
 
My preferred solution is to cut ring off a latex glove (the creamy white ones) just less than the size of the scope rings . With the latex between the scope and its rings, there is so much friction that “good and snug” is plenty tight. Never fretted about torque and the latex will last - as they say in Newfoundland- “towzens n towzens” of years.
 
I bought a Weaver Deluxe scope mounting kit, several years ago. Torque wrench, lapping bar and handle, aligning rods, waste-of-time plastic levels. I use the pointy ends of aligning rods to verify height of rings, and the butt ends to verify their alignment - almost a necessity with installing bases and rings on the grinding done on rear bridges of various milsurps, Torque screw driver adjust 10 in/lbs to 80 in/lbs - I have nothing check it against, so I go with the numbers that I set it at.
 
Light Infantry said:
To complicate things further, would their be a torque wench out there that is good for the low torque requirements that are required for scopes, but can also go up higher (80-120) that can be double duty for my son's bicycle projects?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.
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Most of the click type I have seen and used are 10-50 or 40-200 inch pounds. Not saying others aren't out there, but the might be costly. CT has an electric for $180 that they list as 1.11 to 22.1 foot/lbs, but then you have to do maths every time you want to use it.

If you look you might be able to find something, but if price is a factor you might have some issues.
 
Al Bear said:
My preferred solution is to cut ring off a latex glove (the creamy white ones) just less than the size of the scope rings . With the latex between the scope and its rings, there is so much friction that “good and snug” is plenty tight. Never fretted about torque and the latex will last - as they say in Newfoundland- “towzens n towzens” of years.
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Latex deteriorate with age. :(

Grizz
 
Light Infantry said:
Hi everyone!

I'm looking for a torque wrench as I have a few scope projects I want to do in the next little while. If I have to spend the money I will, but if a can buy a low cost solution, I would prefer that.

What is a good inexpensive torque wrench. I have seen a few things on Wheeler, but know nothing about them. Any opinions.

To complicate things further, would their be a torque wench out there that is good for the low torque requirements that are required for scopes, but can also go up higher (80-120) that can be double duty for my son's bicycle projects?

Thanks in advance for any guidance.
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If you want just one thing to do all things with, then that one thing is going to have to be "Practice"!

Really. Don't be so cheap and try to find one tool that does it all, it'll be a kludge at best.

For all they were looked down on, compared to clicker type torque wrenches, we could hardly get one of the spring bar types to fail a monthly calibration check, when I was working as an aircraft mechanic. The idea is to get the torques equal, and repeatable, so for non-NASA related work, buy a cheap spring bar wrench that has a range that your common use will be near the middle of, and another that your son's bike projects will be around the middle of, and have at both.

If you don't have any regular access to a torque wrench calibration bench, you will really never know what the wrench is providing anyways. Just trusting that it is what it is.
And, we deep-sixxed an awful expensive pile of click type torque wrenches of all makes over the years!
 

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Over the years I’ve picked up a couple different torque wrenches in different size drives and values as well as a wheeler torque screwdriver, I’ve only ever used the wheeler in guns. The inch pound and foot pound torque wrenches get used on motorcycles, quad and my truck, I have yet to find a do it all tool when it comes to things like torque wrenches or wrenches in general.
 
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