• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Torque Wrench

Ive never owned a 1/4" torque wrench, but from time to time i think about getting one. seems like on a bike they would work for most things.

Let us know how it goes if you get that one. :thumbsup:
 
http://www.gearwrench.com/catalog/torque_wrenches/micrometer_torque_wrench/index.jsp?view=stock

This is the one I ordered (and got the next day....incredible!!). $89. I tried to cancel the order thinking I'd made a mistake and it was a made in China item but it says Made in US and the larger company behind GearWrench is Danaher Tool Group which includes Matco and KD along with some others. One is a China based tool company that offers a lifetime guarantee, Sata.

I think this will work out OK. The one at Sears was listed at over $100, although I think they had one around $70 possibly. The wrench is very compact and simple to read (once you get the glasses on) Each full turn takes you from say 70 in. lbs. to 80 in lbs. in 1 in. lb. clicks. Newton meters scale on the opposite side.

ETA lists at $140 on Sears site and is listed as "Professional"....

Just used it to make sure the front axle pinch bolts were properly torqued. 10.4 nm.... just a little off on the loose side, maybe an 1/8 of a turn got it to click. I'd previously set them with an old beam indicator type. Very nice.
 
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