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Originally Posted by BillyRover
Whilst you lot have been debating the finer points of torque wrenches two things have happened:
1. Most poignantly I broke my torque wrench. I've never really used it as a torque wrench - more a breaker bar as I picked it up in a lightening sale on amazon for a pretty penny and have my Dad's 60 year old one I use for when it matters. It's on the highest setting but with 5 foot of box steel over the end trying to undo these wishbone bolts from the subframe the ring spanner held up (despite looking like a bend it like Beckham) and then the wrench went WHACK! and the innards fell out in pieces. Don't make em like they used to eh?
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Don't worry Billy, I'm sure Simon will lend you his torque wrench as long as he isn't using it to hammer something in or for some other free creative thinking idea he has come up with.