openmind Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 Agree - a torque wrench is not the place to save money. If you're skint, rather just go by feel. You'll need to learn to do that anyway for when your fancy pants carbon seatpost slips during a ride. Sheldon Brown famously eschewed torque wrenches - http://sheldonbrown.com/tork-grip.html
Guest notmyname Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 You can get any 2 of - cheap, durable and accurate - pick any 2. Me - I have britool and Beta and snap-on torque wrenches... worth every cent.TRUTH right here. I first bought a cheapy which quickly found its way to the back of the cupboard. Now I'm using the topeak D-Torq Wrench DX unit.
Sidmouth Posted March 20, 2015 Author Posted March 20, 2015 can anyone endorse the easy bike torque wrench
V12man Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 Agree - a torque wrench is not the place to save money. If you're skint, rather just go by feel. You'll need to learn to do that anyway for when your fancy pants carbon seatpost slips during a ride. Sheldon Brown famously eschewed torque wrenches - http://sheldonbrown.com/tork-grip.htmlIf you are skint - buy a Ritchey torque key - R295 odd http://www.evobikes.co.za/catalogsearch/result/?q=torqkey This is really handy for some jobs - especially when just checking stem and handlebar related torques - at least it puts you in the ballpark - even if it's not adjustable.
Brian Fantana Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 You can get any 2 of - cheap, durable and accurate - pick any 2. Me - I have britool and Beta and snap-on torque wrenches... worth every cent. +1, I have a Snap-on 0-20 Nm and a Britool 12-68 Nm At work I have a BMS Ireland electronic torque wrench, very nice tool, but ridiculously expensive. It connects to your wireless network and logs data through the software and you can generate graphs of torque vs angle etc.
shaper Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 can anyone endorse the easy bike torque wrenchAm very happy using mine, no issues so far although only had it 4 months
Ryan's dad Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 I have a torque wrench but where can I get the Allen head bits from?
Brian Fantana Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 I have a torque wrench but where can I get the Allen head bits from? Any tool shop can help you. Just measure the square drive size on your torque wrench. It will probably be 1/4" or 3/8" and just make sure that the hex bit sockets are take the same drive size as your torque wrench. It is useful to get a square drive adapter as well. If you want a low price, try your nearest Toolquip & Allied branch.
The_black_stig Posted March 20, 2015 Posted March 20, 2015 I have a torque wrench but where can I get the Allen head bits from?As mentioned by Brian, you should go to nearest tool-shops and have a look.Adenhoff has them around R350 in a tool-set with hard-case box (that was 2 months ago) Individual allen-pieces can be brought from builders-warehouse (from R25 to R50 apiece). However, they'll only have the 3/8" pieces on sales. (and make you buy a complete socket wrench tool-set if you needs a 1/4" size allen-piece)
Sidmouth Posted March 23, 2015 Author Posted March 23, 2015 I ordered my torgue wrench Friday, it has just arrived now, 10h45 Monday, well done easy bikes, In the interim my LBS leant me there torque wrench, stripped a rebuilt with torque wrench and rode for 4 hours Saturday, not a sound or creak, maybe that is the answer.
venom1 Posted March 24, 2015 Posted March 24, 2015 1st just WOW!WOW WOW WOWFirst thing Monday morning i ordered my torque wrench from Easy Bike and got it today just before 9am. Didn't expect this as i'm from Cape Town in a not so central area. This was my 1st experience with them and I have to just way WOW for the experience as it was effortless. Thank you Easybike for the great experience and my Torque Wrench. 1 Happy Customer! :-)
Sidmouth Posted March 24, 2015 Author Posted March 24, 2015 good stuff easybikes, they have some great tyres specials
Gen Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Can anyone help, Hubby turns 40 soon and I was thinking of getting him one of those Digital Torque wrenches . I saw 2 Topeak ones, 4-80nm and a 1-20nm.. I know squat, I assume get the 4-80nm, but before I erm break the bank I just want to ask which one I should get.??
Bobbo_SA Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 Can anyone help, Hubby turns 40 soon and I was thinking of getting him one of those Digital Torque wrenches . I saw 2 Topeak ones, 4-80nm and a 1-20nm.. I know squat, I assume get the 4-80nm, but before I erm break the bank I just want to ask which one I should get.?? My under educated guess would be the 4-80nm one, this gives the largest range and there is not many components on a bike that will need to be under 4nm, even on carbon. Perhaps the resident racing Doc can weigh in on the calibration of a wrench with such a wide range, i would expect that if its calibrated well on the smaller end it might affect the top end?
V12man Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 My under educated guess would be the 4-80nm one, this gives the largest range and there is not many components on a bike that will need to be under 4nm, even on carbon. Perhaps the resident racing Doc can weigh in on the calibration of a wrench with such a wide range, i would expect that if its calibrated well on the smaller end it might affect the top end?The good digital ones calibrate quite well across a fair range - but I would certainly check the calibration before using it - Jorge at the toolshop has a device to check the calibration on - has never charged me to use it.... but I did buy most of mine from him... Somewhere there is a set of the torques used on bikes online (maybe parktool) - I don't know if there is much point going beyond 20nm - possibly only crank bolts are that tight - but I would certainly check to see the usage range and stick within that if possible - no point in buying a 900Nm torque wrench... unless you have centerlock car wheels... After I typed the above I searched for the list - http://bicycletutor.com/torque-specifications/ 90 % of the work a home mech will do should be in the 2 - 20nm range - so I would look for something around that range as a first cut, and possibly a cheaper beam type torque wrench for the 20 - 80 range - these are very stable calibration wise, and once checked can happily go for 20 - 30 years without recalibrating in a low use environment - something you can't do with a click type torque wrench.
Gen Posted April 1, 2015 Posted April 1, 2015 The good digital ones calibrate quite well across a fair range - but I would certainly check the calibration before using it - Jorge at the toolshop has a device to check the calibration on - has never charged me to use it.... but I did buy most of mine from him... Somewhere there is a set of the torques used on bikes online (maybe parktool) - I don't know if there is much point going beyond 20nm - possibly only crank bolts are that tight - but I would certainly check to see the usage range and stick within that if possible - no point in buying a 900Nm torque wrench... unless you have centerlock car wheels... After I typed the above I searched for the list - http://bicycletutor.com/torque-specifications/ 90 % of the work a home mech will do should be in the 2 - 20nm range - so I would look for something around that range as a first cut, and possibly a cheaper beam type torque wrench for the 20 - 80 range - these are very stable calibration wise, and once checked can happily go for 20 - 30 years without recalibrating in a low use environment - something you can't do with a click type torque wrench. so this one then? http://www.buycycle.co.za/images/thumbnails/220/146/detailed/8/Topeak_torque.jpg Topeak D-Torq Digital Torque Wrench 1-20nm
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