Let’s Talk Torque Wrenchs

This weekend I was doing the top end, piston, on my dirtbike and realized the short comings of my craftsman torque wrench I bought a decade ago. I have two craftsman units one 1/2” drive that goes north of 150 ft/lbs and a smaller unit, 3/8 “ drive, that tops out at 27 nm. Anyhow the smaller unit was at the top end of the torque spec for my dirtbike Head bolts being 27nm and as I was tightening the cylinder it just never felt good and or inspiring, keeping in mind it’s a cylinder head so you are tightening several bolts in a star pattern. So I ended up not going to 27 nm with that wrench I only got up to about 24nm before my little voice of experince told me to hold up. This has motivated me to upgrade torque wrench’s and I landed on purchasing a Norbar Torque wrench which I had never heard of till I started searching.

Norbar is a British company and their torque wrench’s appear to really well made and tough. They also come with a certificate. The model I purchased is 3/8” drive and does 10-60 nm or 10 to 45 ft/lbs. This should work well and with
care should be the last torque wrench I buy for a while in that range. If this wrench looks good I’ll probably add the next one up to my tool collection at some point in the future. I paid @150$ for the torque wrench seen below.

 

Don't know anything about that product.

I usually look on Garage Journal when I need advice about tools.

https://www.google.com/search?sourc.......0...1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.1SdTyW0a6ZI

 

I did a little research on that board Tim and Norbar has positive reviews as does CDI.
It looks like snap on owns both CDI and Norbar as they recently purchased Norbar.

Norbar Torque Tools Acquired by Snap-on Incorporated