With all this talk about torque wrenches - what is the best way to calibrate
one?  What good is a torque wrench if it is consistently wrong?  Also, is
there are 'sweet spot' on a torque wrench.  Mine goes from 0 to 150lbs, but
I certainly don't trust the extreme ends of the scale.

David Marshall

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-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Alistair Bell
Sent: November 27, 2001 8:16 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Torque Wench

"Wise words from the mouths of fools do oft themselves belie"

one of the cast of "beyond the Fringe", I rather think it was P. Cook

> Entity Sudhir Desai spoke thus:
>
>> um... i would like to have a couple stern words with
>> whomever feels it is unnecessary to use a torque
>> wrench
>
> To which Gnarlodious responds:
>
> "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to
> watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White
>