Lidl Torque Wrench

[pickettwayne]

Any good?

https://www.lidl.co.uk/cps/rde/SID-086787AB-2EBDBEEA/www_lidl_uk/hs.xsl/our-offers-2491.htm?action=showDetail&id=10947
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[Mark 37]

I picked one up last year. As they had been in store for 6 weeks or so, got it for £9.99.

I can't say I've had many opportunities to use it because most work that I've completed needs a lower torque range....5-25.
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[fatjames]

I've had no issues with one I bought a few years ago...However, without calibrating it, or snapping a bolt you know is good, you wouldn't know.

[Rogerborg]

Can't speak to that (I don't trust any of that new fangled sorcery), but I picked up a Powerfix 3/8" socket set recently and it's actually quite nice: the ratchet feels like a clock mechanism.
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[Jonathan A]

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[johnsmith222]

I suspect that the torque wrench will be nearly the same as the one I have from 'Silverline'. More than likely they originated from the same source and are just rebranded, as I've seen the exact same kit produced by multiple brands.

[Jay89]

can anyone recommend a cheapish torque wrench to do the lower range of nm?

going to try grab a lidl one aswell, hopefully before they sell out!

[Rogerborg]

[_Iain_]

Let me see if I understand this.

You don't trust yourselves to do a bolt up without snapping the head off it, but you're happy to trust this task to a cheaply made copy of a tool that costs several hundred pounds that you bought at the supermarket?

You don't need a torque wrench unless you are building engines & even then theres hardly anything on the engine you actually need to torque up to spec.

Stop being clowns, learn to use a bog standard ratchet & feel when a bolt is tight. I have never ever ever used a torque wrench on a sparkplug, I have never ever had a spark plug thread strip. I have never ever used one on an oil pan, and I haven't had one of them strip either, nor have I had a bolt fall out.

Why does everyone who owns a bike need a damn torque wrench to do anything? Please, somebody explain? Everyone I've ever spoken to that claimed to need a torque wrench never knew they had to be calibrated every so often, or that storing them with the adjuster tensioned caused them to go out of spec!


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[Polarbear]

[jeddy11]

This looks like the same torque wrench i just bought from screwfix for 25 quid damn you lidl !!

It does a job doesn't look the best but i just used it for rear sprocket nuts and rear axle and front sprocket which was supposed to be 108nm but i undid with my hand !! bike from new they must have forgotten to do it, wasn't picked up on 3 services and the first service was to check all bolts and torques !!

reminds me i was going to complain to kawasaki lol
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[_Iain_]

Okay, so you're telling me as an engineer that when you work on your own bikes - lets say replacing a damaged engine cover, you would sit there and set every single bolt to the exact torque figure?

Do you use a torque wrench every single time you change a sparkplug?

Do you use a torque wrench on your cars wheel nuts?

It's bollocks. I cannot think of a single time I've needed a torque wrench other than doing head gaskets, and whats the point in using a tool to torque something up to an exact spec when it's not even accurate enough to hit said torque mark and it's always too tight or too loose anyway!

Far far far too much importance put on the torque wrench.
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[Tamsin]

90% of things, do up to FT spec, the rest get the torque wrench

[Polarbear]

[Tamsin]

MechEng Degree here

[Ste]

Most stuff you just do up as tight as you can. A torque wrench is useful for stuff where the thread is fragile and you need to be sure to not over tighten it.

Not snapping bolts is a useful skill to learn without being reliant on a torque wrench.

[Polarbear]

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[Ste]

Maybe, but it could also be considered shit engineering to not be able to do most bike DIY mechanics without having a torque wrench.

[Jay89]

As of yet I've never used a torque wrench but having recently changed to braided lines I found myself wanting one. Obviously I can tell what's tight but with brakes I felt the need to get it spot on.

[slowlydoesit]

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[stonesie]

Feel is worth fuck all on a long stretch bolt, I know to my cost that a cheap torque wrench is not a good torque wrench.

The bolt's in question were for the injectors on a 2.0 PD diesel and are about 3" long with a torque of 3N:m +90° +180° (it's burned into my mind now)

El-cheapo wrench could be clicked by hand with very little effort so I though it would do...
Nope, £25 and a day's delay while VW got me another set of bolts and £75 on a Norbar torque wrench and the injector seal change could be completed... £100 over budget, not my mates fault I didn't have the right tool so I lost money on that one... The wrench will be handy for the bike though so it's not too bad.

[janner_10]

Lidl are good, just not for tools. Finding the cheapest possible tool is not really the best policy IMO.

Buy the best you can afford. Buy cheap, buy twice.
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