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We get this torque free argument every time someone asks 'What torque driver...', and to some extent I agree with the anti's.

Yesterday, I was installing a loft light. When it came to testing, there were two cables (imperial twisted) in the mcb etc. In the mcb, one wire had been doubled over, the other hadn't, and weren't very secure in the terminal.

Re-terminated and reconnected by hand, I didn't have the manufacturers data to use my torque driver. So that's one issue (although somewhere I have a pdf with different manufacturers torque values).

Today, I'll be replacing a CU, and I'll use my torque driver. Mind, it should of been calibrated by now, so that's the other issue.

Years & years ago the only tester I used, was a Megger continuity tester, don't see why now I need my fancy MFT to do all these fancy tests nowadays :rolleyes:

I'll continue using a torque driver where appropriate, might need a new one though!
 
I had used a torque driver on one of my assessment jobs, all CU terminals torqued to manufacturers spec (hager)
The scheme inspector comes along and checks all my CU terminals with a standard screwdriver?

How does that work? Is he better at assessing manually applied torque than me?
 
I had used a torque driver on one of my assessment jobs, all CU terminals torqued to manufacturers spec (hager)
The scheme inspector comes along and checks all my CU terminals with a standard screwdriver?

How does that work? Is he better at assessing manually applied torque than me?
He is probably a lot more experienced that you are at present Sam, and is using that experience to check you connections, never used a torque driver myself.
 
He is probably a lot more experienced that you are at present Sam, and is using that experience to check you connections, never used a torque driver myself.

There's no way he could know if they were torqued up to manufactures spec doing it by hand. It's completely hypocritical for them to tell me to use a torque driver then for him to check them manually.

As for experience - I've been doing this for nearly 20 years if I haven't got the 'feel' by now I never will have.

Don't get my wrong torque setting tools definitely have there place in engineering particularly with the prevalance of TTY fasteners.
 
There's no way he could know if they were torqued up to manufactures spec doing it by hand. It's completely hypocritical for them to tell me to use a torque driver then for him to check them manually.

As for experience - I've been doing this for nearly 20 years if I haven't got the 'feel' by now I never will have.

Don't get my wrong torque setting tools definitely have there place in engineering particularly with the prevalance of TTY fasteners.
Sam I think I misread the situation, I mistakenly thought your Assessor was or is a college tutor thinking you were a trainee, if this was a scam assessor then it just goes to show the hypocrisy as you rightly say, sorry for the misunderstanding.
 
I have the full Armeg set, have used it now for roughly 2 years and I love it, not broke any of the ends.

Excellent bit of kit in my opinion and ideal when testing, just carry the box and my tester box instead of lugging my tool bag in :)
 

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