Torque screwdrivers

[TAZ]

Sorry if there is already a post on this subject. With regulations stating that installed equipment is to be as per manufacturers instructions, what % of you folks use a torque screwdriver. Thanks

 

[somersetsparks]

I once read manufacturers instructions stating terminal torque should be 1-4NM, I think it might of been wylex.
Now how important can a torque be if the high figure is 4x the low figure?
Do up up tight and check them again a bit later after the strands have compressed.
Then you can sleep tight, torque driver my a*se.

It would seen that some sparks would find them useful for faceplate screw though! The amount i see that have been wrenched up!

 

[Rockingit]

I've got one, cost me about £30 I think, but hardly ever use it. I think tbh the main reason the domestic board makers insist on them being used but then have such low torque settings anyway is simply to avoid us sparks discovering just how poorly made the screws are and how easily the heads shear due to cheap materials. I can normally get quite a decent 'nip up' with a conventional driver long after the torque screwdriver has been clicking away.

 

[TAZ]

£30 I think i have been taken for a ride i just coughed up £105 " ouch"

 

[Rockingit]

£30 I think i have been taken for a ride i just coughed up £105 " ouch"

Like others before you! Can't for the life of me remember what the make is, but it's a captive 1/4" hex head for your bit of choice, and a simple setting mechanism with a sliding needle gauge down the handle. Picked it up from a wholesalers somewhere so must be more to be found out there. Not VDE rated, though you could probably adapt an old vde shaft to fit if you really needed it.

 

[Robert Turnbull]

£30 I think i have been taken for a ride i just coughed up £105 " ouch"

you where already on the ride the moment you considered it necessary to buy one on the here say you might fail you scam assessment without it.

 

[Dbm3237]

Got one last week. First day usiong it. Torqued a 6amp MK MCB down with it and the MCB went Crack and nice big bit of plastic flew off the top of the MCB. " Great"

 

[sparkdog]

My assessor said its so the manufacturers can cover themselves if the board goes up in smoke.If a torque wasn't used they don't want to know.

 

[IanHug]

Got one last week. First day usiong it. Torqued a 6amp MK MCB down with it and the MCB went Crack and nice big bit of plastic flew off the top of the MCB. " Great"

Got my lb/ft and lb/inches mixed up once. Did wonder why a needed a two ft torque wrench to tighten up a small aluminium set screw.

The torque settings that are being talked about are very small & I'd doubt that you could be that accurate fightening a brass screw onto a soft copper wire anyway.