I finally stopped fighting the digital torque wrench trend

I was at a shop in Denver last Thursday and heard two young techs laughing about how anyone still uses a beam style torque wrench. I get it, digital wrenches are fast and loud, but I've been turning wrenches for 18 years and my old Snap-on beam has never lied to me once. The digital one my buddy lent me gave a false click on a caliper bracket and I nearly sent a rotor out warped. Maybe I'm just set in my ways, but I trust a needle that swings naturally over a screen that beeps. Anyone else feel like the new stuff adds fuss without real gains, or am I just the old guy in the corner now?

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loganl227d ago

Right, because nothing says precision like a wrench that needs a firmware update before it can tell you 80 ft-lbs (oh wait, was that a beep or a low battery chirp?). My beam wrench has one job and zero opinions about it, which is more than I can say for the tablet my last shop tried to make me use. Keep swinging that needle, at least when it lies you can see it lying.

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