Spent $500 on a fancy digital torque adapter and it's been nothing but trouble

Bought one of those Bluetooth torque adapters last year thinking it would speed up my engine work. It cost me about five hundred bucks from a tool truck. The thing loses connection constantly in the hangar, and the app freezes halfway through a torque sequence. I've had to redo three jobs because it gave me false readings, wasting maybe eight hours total. Everyone says digital is the future, but my old click wrench has never let me down. Has anyone found a digital adapter that actually works around all the metal and interference?

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grant.richard13d ago

Yeah, that line about your old click wrench never letting you down is so true. I see this everywhere now, where the "smart" version of a tool just adds new ways to fail. My buddy's fancy thermostat is the same, it needs a wifi reboot more than it actually controls the heat.

gavin_allen4812d ago

Totally, @grant.richard, I read a piece calling it "innovation for the sake of a subscription fee.