Recent content by dlleno

BTW changing the subject to heads...I had arp studs put in my Cummins 5.9 and the mechanic was quite a vigorous young man . He couldn't finish in one setting. these diesel head bolts take some serious torque

ok I'll do the math. According to the published specs, the Icon is 7/8" longer than the PI. Assuming one can actually grip the handle 7/8" further from the drive, the Icon will require about 4% less force from you, in order to apply the same torque to the fastener. Thats what I'm sayin...

The icon is a little longer but I'm not sure it would save a hernia compared to the PI!

follow-up. After giving Amazon a chance to make a bulk purchase of their own ("ships and sold from Amazon"), they regrettably were not successful and I ended up cancelling my order. At the risk of thread drift, I ended up with the Icon split beam 1/2" torque wrench from Harbor Freight, for...

To me, that dude is interesting and all of that, but he's not testing the probability of getting a good copy. Well, except when he got a tekton copy that wasn't calibrated well and tekton promptly tuned one up real good and gave it to him. So he got a good Icon copy and showed longevity...

Yea national tool warehouse has stock and uses Amazon delivery but Amazon as a seller does not have stock. Prices are definitely higher now and Amazon as a seller is just more attractive to me even at $10 more. I'm looking at the 1/2" flavor I'm not buying "ships and sold from national...

Nice. I just received a copy of the owners manual from precision. The Icon is well translated and illustrated it just takes up 10 times more space lol and doesn't reflect the actual product. Amazon is now claiming to be a seller of the precision. they're out of stock which is a bummer but...

Yea the evidence is very strong that it's just a low cost document copied over with very little if any analysis. the copy editors don't have the expertise and are not paid enough to write sonething most will not read. I read through both docs again and affirmed that the writer knew enough...

The clicker manual says that before each use one must turn the micrometer all the way to max and then to zero three times? That does not sound fun at all. But I'm agreeing with you that the mechanism for adjusting torque needs no exercise. I'm only saying that there is opportunity for...

Beats me that's where I'm confused why something like this would make it into their instructions. The screw has to move something though. The display has to correlate with the position of the screw. something changes the click point and that change has to be accurately reflected in the...

So their clickers have the same latch specifically and deliberately referred to in the instructions and they also refer to the adjustment mechanism as a "torque knob" that needs to be unlatched? Or you're saying some tech writer deliberately copied the general motions over from a clicker and...

Right? But download the manual and be greeted by these very specific instructions that make me doubt the integrityof the secondary beam and dial mechanism

Something just occurred to me re the icon. Unlike PI, The Icon manual states that you need to reset the dial to zero after every use and exercise it to full scale before each use. so I started to wonder why. This is what the YouTubers are missing: it's one thing to buy one good good copy and...

For what it's worth, 3rd hand information and all of that, I took the liberty of asking a local calibration lab their opinion, and they told me the Icon and PI split beams both calibrate well and they don't see a material difference from the calibration perspective. I haven't purchase either...

I found a local calibration lab that will provide this info for $60. So thats probably $60 they saved on the price at least for the Amazon/home depot copies