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Re: Ratcheting breaker bar Posted by Snowmobile [Email] (#686) [Profile/Gallery] (more from Snowmobile) on Wed, 26 Jun 2013 10:19:25 In Reply to: Ratcheting breaker bar, steve, Wed, 26 Jun 2013 08:38:25 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
to me, a ratchet and breaker bar have 2 different uses:
breaker bar - for that initial crack + nothing else. needs to be 100% solid and not flex or bend. ideally long enough to apply loads of torque. mine is 4' long and 3/4" drive. ratcheting is useless here imho.
ratchet - great for removing a bolt in a tight space once it is already cracked. length of little benefit here (often just a pain in the neck), sometimes a flex head is handy, sometimes not.
torque wrench - for the final torquing of a bolt. never to crack open a bolt. I use a pretty basic click type 3/8" drive for smaller bolts, and a large 1/2" drive beam style ($20 cheapie) for wheel bolts etc. works great!
in terms of torque wrench accuracy, there is the precision of the calibration, and then how well the thing holds calibration. better quality ones will hold up better and cheapies might not be worth calibrating at all if they go out of whack easily! That said, I think the cheapie beam type ones are probably fine as is for crude tasks like tightening wheel bolts etc...
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