Stop in for a cup of coffee
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Hey. Man I have some thing literally with your name all over it need coffee first!
Actually a really nice meter. Never used that brand before.
Morning guys. Hey, I think Fox Valley is still in business. Electronic Calibration
Must be good then. That one has to be early 80's.
Had a five foot stack of meters I went through yesterday getting ready for Carlisle. Totally forgot about that one. Man I have everything form a $10 dwell only to a $400 scope!. Glad that is over with, just distribs now. Got Lons yesterday.
Morning.
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Morning Frank
Know what looking at that website I think the torque wrench calibrate we used in the USAF was from them of CDI. Glad that program went away we did the whole base from big 3/4 drive to ounce screwdrivers. Pretty much had a guy on it full time. Had hundreds of them to do every three months! Sucked. And if they were not done we held them up from doing their work!
Or is that FFFFFrank! Burr!
Snap on truck has a torque wrench tester on the truck.
We used to ship them out to a lab in winnipeg to have them calibrated.
We used to ship them out to a lab in winnipeg to have them calibrated.
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Morning gents, looking forward to yet another day wallowing in the snow under a rail car. On plus side if you get behind the wheels you are out of the wind. We aborted late last night, it was dark and we were all whipped. That is a perfect recipe for getting your men hurt. We will try and get it back on the tracks today in the light. We get her on the track and the old fat man is going to call it a day and come home and thrash on the Demon for a bit.
I got spoiled, We have a repair shop for torque wrenches right in town. They fixed me up many times.
They get expensive. Some of the torque heads get into the hundreds. It was a freaking *** pain. They had to come in the temp/humidity controlled room, then soak for 24 hours then calibrated and adjusted if needed. Never got the soak part because half the time you took it from the shop out in 30 degree temps and used it. I remember one day a guy dropped a box full of them and all of them had to re calibrated. He worked that weekend! You want to buy a good snap on one for half the price CDI is the manufacturer of them.
What they charge out of curiosity say for a 20-200 inch pound? Retail. 40 or so I would think?
Ya that's about right $40-50. They do great work but I didn't get a discount. They do tons of work for John Deere here in town.
Every single thing on a plane had to have corrosion inhibitor on the threads and tourqued down. Hated the screwdrivers, mostly our shop used them repairing instruments. You fart on a inch ounce one and it broke.
what is their recommended cycle? Ours was three moths for most of them, some were a month. Really went by the USAF meteorology data base on failures to be re calibrated. They are so cheap now I drop one I just throw it out and get another one.
I sold a ton of the split beam wrenches, pissing Snappy off with each one! And $100 less than his prices.
Really don't use them any more unless I am inside something that has tolerances.
The tool manufacturers recommended yearly calibration but no-one did. LOL
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