[quote=“johnledoe”]I got something like this, but it also has a digital read for a very few preset torque settings.
goods.ruten.com.tw/item/show?21305080186330
However, I don’t think model has that, I’m not sure as all the pictures didn’t load up. I had
a Taiwanese friend help me order it, as I was asking about getting one and it’s was what
he suggested I get. As he knew I wouldn’t be using it everyday, like he uses his, he felt that
the battery would die from not being used and recharged often enough. Using it is kinda of
strange, as you have to let it “spin up” before it impacts, which it does again and again until
you reached the torque setting, then it stops. It did the job of torquing down my flywheel,
transmission, and rear wheel.[/quote]
Might be wrong here, because I’ve never used one, but I don’t see the point.
Maybe sometimes the inertia of a rotating part means it doesn’t have to be clamped when used with a powertool, and sure, for a pro mechanic, time is money, but an amateur is, to some extent, doing it for fun.
What’s the rush?
I see these things treated as absolutely essential on a US-centred auto site I visit sometimes.
I also see ratchets used routinely when a breaker bar would be more appropriate, and torque wrenches used all the time when a bit of gumption would be more appropriate.
I also see, fairly regularly, descriptions of “technically assisted breakages” where, for example, someone got a duff gadget, or the wrong setting, and didn’t realise they were stripping a thread, or had cross-threaded a part.
I don’t get it.
Hand tools have more feel, they stop you breaking things, they are more durable, and you don’t have to keep re-charging the bloody things.