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Had to pick between a new digital torque wrench or sticking with my old clicker on a recent 737 gear swing
The job needed 450 inch-pounds on the main gear pivot bolts. I went with the new digital one, a Snap-on TechAngle, because the manual said the tolerance was tight. It flagged a bad reading on one bolt that my old wrench would have missed. Anyone else made a switch like that and had it catch a problem?
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the_reese6mo ago
That 737 isn't gonna torque itself, right? Umaf20, I get the "if it ain't broke" thing, but my old clicker probably would've just shrugged and called it a day. The digital one doesn't know how to lie, which is kinda rude of it honestly.
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umaf206mo ago
Man, I was totally in the "if it ain't broke" camp with my old clicker wrenches. Figured they got the job done for years, so why change? But hearing that a digital one caught a bad reading you would have missed... that's a real eye-opener. It makes you wonder how many times the old tool just felt "close enough." Maybe that tight tolerance is way more important than I gave it credit for. What made you decide to trust the digital readout over the feel of the click?
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jason3284mo ago
Close enough" has been working fine for decades. Digital's just another thing to break.
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