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Senior inspector's take on torque wrenches got under my skin
Had a chat with a 30-year veteran at the hangar in Tulsa last week. He said he stopped trusting digital torque wrenches after one gave him a false reading on a flap actuator. I always thought the beeping ones were foolproof, but he showed me his old beam style and how he checks it against a calibration stand every Monday. Made me wonder if I've been too lazy about verifying my own tools. Anyone else still use the click type over digital for critical fasteners?
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king.lisa22h ago
Buddy of mine ran a crop duster outfit down in Kansas and had a click wrench that failed on him. Not a false reading, it just stopped clicking altogether one day. He found out the hard way on a prop bolt and it cost him an engine. What got him was trusting the thing because it was new and expensive. He switched to a beam style after that and checks it on a stand every week like your Tulsa guy. Hearing that story is what made me stop being lazy about it. The price or the brand doesn't matter if you never verify it against something known.
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