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I'm after a torque wrench, for the lower set of torque's, 2-24nm say. Preferably including socket bits, and preferably cheap, but nothing rubbish. I've seen a few torque wrenches with bits, re-branded by bike companies like bbb and giant for about £55, these any good?
Thanks a lot
can be had from a few places.
I've got the Giant one myself and can't fault it. You can spend a lot more but seems a bit pointless to me
Teng do quite nice 1/4" drive job, only goes down to 5nm though.Covers everything i've needed to do on a bike, bar square taper cranks and BB cups.
I have the BBB one, does the job. Clicks nicely, sockets seem much better fitting than any allen key I've used (park being the next best I've used)
My thinking was while I could find stuff for £38ish like the one above, by the time I'd found suitable decent sockets and most likely added postage on each I'd be upto around £55 anyway. With a 'bike specific' one I have a box designed for it plus the 'bike specific'* sockets that I can keep/carry them in
*as in the ones I'll use on a bike
Norbar all the way, well worth the extra.
anyone use the park tools bar type 0-7nm one, £45 , doesn't need calibration.
I have a [url= http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=37294 ]PRO[/url] one for sale. It was unwanted gift at christmas and in brand new condition. If your interested its yours for £60.
doesn't need calibration.
How do you know? Surely you'd have to calibrate it at regular intervals to find out if it didn't?
Initially got the Ritchey one (also sold under some Italian name) and it was a lovely looking bit of kit. However the bit that marked the torque setting got scraped off a barrel, big design flaw. Sent it back and got the pedros demi one (looks the same as the pro one) and it's been great.