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Why does nobody talk about how torque wrenches went from click to digital on the line in Wichita
When I started at the Wichita plant in 1994 we checked every click-type wrench against a beam tester once a month and logged it by hand, but now the digital ones on the floor self-check and log to a computer, and honestly I think we lost something in that trade, so I am curious if the older hands here trust the new ones more or less than the click style.
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karenw902d ago
Man, my buddy ran a shop down in Tulsa and had the opposite problem. His digital wrenches kept logging fine but he stopped trusting the numbers because nobody was actually feeling the pull anymore. One guy snapped a head bolt and the log showed everything was perfect, so who do you believe? Turns out the wrench was fine, the guy was just rushing and never noticed the wrench click over because he was watching the screen. With the old click style your hand and ear caught that stuff. The computer might be smarter but it can't tell you the guy holding it is having a bad day.
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