Willehond Posted May 12, 2011 Share Another satisfied BBB user! Getit. Awesome bit of kit you'll never want to be without ever again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cassie Posted May 12, 2011 Share Another satisfied BBB user! Getit. Awesome bit of kit you'll never want to be without ever again +1 on the BBB No need to spend a R1000...unless you are financially loaded. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLuvsMtb Posted May 12, 2011 Share I also have the BBB torque wrench - luvit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndreZA Posted May 12, 2011 Share My BBB is about 5 years old and still going strong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amasendeinja Posted May 12, 2011 Share Just to throw a er... spanner in the works/BBB punt here... I'd get the Park Tools TW1 and TW2 - yes two of them. The TW1 ranges from 0-7Nm and the TW2 0-70Nm - one for the little things (stem, handlebard, etc.) and one for the big stuff (crankbolts). It may seem you can just get the big one, its pretty useless in the lower ranges, so don't be fooled by the 0-70NM range. These wrenches are the parallel beam type; very easy to use, far cheaper than the ratcheting type and will last you a lifetime without ever needing to be calibrated. If they ever go out of "calibration" all you have to do is bend the arms (wiff your arms) to align them again. The ratcheting type will need to be calibrated and I'm not sure where you can get this done, but even if you do, what a ball-ache. Oh and dont bother ordering off CRC or elsewhere, I've yet to find a major price difference on Park Tools (specifically) between any online or oeverseas shop and any semi-decent local LBS. If you can't find these in your LBS, and you likely won't, call up Cape Cycles (the importer) and they'll send them up to your closest LBS and you pay and collect. I've got the TW1 (around R500 if I recall) which is brilliant and will soon get the TW2, if only for damn Truvativ crankbolts. Getting the play out of those damn crankarms does my head in!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big H* Posted May 12, 2011 Share +1 BBB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody Posted May 12, 2011 Share Got the BBB and had no problems. Just read the instructions carefully as it works a little differently than other wrenches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosmonooit Posted May 12, 2011 Share Isn't there an iPhone app? If you don't manage to find that on iTunes - just bear in mind there is a big range of Torque wenches out there: what you need for most work on ur bike is the smaller babe version http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Images/Models/75/37294.jpg Kinda 3 to 15 Nm, this one is about R900 from CRC I got this tasty red hot Italian 'Effetto Giustaforza' job a while back from CRC, very nice to use http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Images/Models/Original/29422.jpg ps welease woderick Edited May 12, 2011 by kosmonooit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kosmonooit Posted May 12, 2011 Share Snapon are premium grade tools, often at sick prices. Edited May 12, 2011 by kosmonooit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_w_65 Posted May 12, 2011 Share I have 3x Norbar torque wrenches to do from 2nm up to plenty nm. Had them for about 25 years. Have had them calibrated a few times but it is not cheap (especially when you do 3 at once) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stretch Posted May 12, 2011 Share what about hardware suppliers? I bought one from adendorffs that is 6-30NM for R450 and does all bolts adequately. Obviously doesn't handle bb (which needs around 50NM) its not this one...but similar http://www.tooltime.co.za/ProductDetails.aspx?id=829 unlesss you want to spend thousands... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big H* Posted May 12, 2011 Share For those who wasted their money as Muppet suggests above by buying a click type torque wrench follow the link below to build your own calibration tool http://www.stockcarracing.com/howto/scrp_0803_calibrating_a_torque_wrench/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ichnusa Posted May 12, 2011 Share how do you know your torque wrench needs to be re-calibrated? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_w_65 Posted May 12, 2011 Share I have 3x Norbar torque wrenches to do from 2nm up to plenty nm. Had them for about 25 years. Have had them calibrated a few times but it is not cheap (especially when you do 3 at once) The small one is 1 - 20nm, the medium one is 8 - 54nm and if I recall the big one was from about 40 - 200nm or so I had them calibrated by Torque Tool - http://www.torquetool.co.za/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_w_65 Posted May 12, 2011 Share what about hardware suppliers? I bought one from adendorffs that is 6-30NM for R450 and does all bolts adequately. Obviously doesn't handle bb (which needs around 50NM) its not this one...but similar http://www.tooltime.co.za/ProductDetails.aspx?id=829 unlesss you want to spend thousands... 6nm is a bit high for some of the bolts on carbon components. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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