Friday, November 26, 2021
Gearwrench Torque Screwdriver 20-Piece Set Review 89620
PTR: Over-torquing fasteners sucks. At best, you risk damaging the fastener. At worst, you get to replace a part that wasn’t part of your cost equation. When it comes to smaller fasteners, Gearwrench aims to take the guesswork out with their torque screwdriver set.
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This thing looks awesome! I think when we imagine torqued devices we often picture large torque wrenches or highly sophisticated drives with built-in controllers that sense the desired value. But torquing a screw down properly applies just as much on the smaller scale. The tree branch adjustment design is intriguing, and I'd be curious to see if that was a result of the mechanism inside the screw or a purposeful design choice. It would allow for quickly switching from low to high torques, but a simple continuous twisting mechanism (similar to those found on micrometers) would have been more intuitive. They only list the lack of metric values as a con though, so I'd have to try it out for myself to see if I would find it annoying. For $115 for the screwdriver alone it certainly is an investment comparable to a battery powered dewalt driver, and add on the bit set and you're well over $200. Unless you are working on highly engineered projects that involve small screws (ahem drones ahem).
Another Pro Tools Review that really seems to get to the perfect level of detail. I have never found myself in a situation where I have needed a torque screwdriver but after reading this, I think I would know where to start when looking for one. I agree with Elliot that the torque adjustment system is really interesting and I would love to see the internal mechanism responsible for its success. Squeezing a range from ten to fifty pounds of torque into a screwdriver stem is some pretty impressive engineering. The article states that the only negative side to the screwdriver is it does not have a unit for Newton-meters which would be disappointing to the metric world. Additionally the price point seems rather steep for a screwdriver. While I have nothing to compare that price to off the top of my head, $115 for a screwdriver alone seems like a lot.
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