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Originally Posted by gordonp
Nope.
But I wonder if you mis-understood, when I mentioned:
What I meant was that when I click-tightened my lug-nuts with the click-wrench, then later re-checked them with the same click-wrench, things were repeatable and consistent.
To expand: If I'm tightening my lug-nuts to 90 ft-lbs, I'll do it typically in 3 progressive rounds: maybe 50ft-lbs first, then 70 ft-lbs, finally 90. In this way, I can play around and repeat a setting to see that the nuts do not move, then exert slightly more force and watch them move.
You are right though - when I achieve a "click" it only tells me I've hit/surpassed the setting, but it does not tell me what the current torque actually is. I have not checked this. And you know, I kind of doubt I will :-)
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This^^^
There's actually a static thresh hold the torque wrench has to overcome. For example, if a bolt is torqued to 50 lb., and you set the torque wrench to 55 lb., it may not move the bolt. It's better to have significant differences in the multi stage tightening's, like gordonp suggested.
