Sounds cool! I'd love to visit but I take it you guys aren't open on the weekends? I'm up in that area from time to time but always on a Saturday or Sunday.
While you are here... I do have a question about the wrench I received. The cal certificate included listed the manufacture and test date as July of last year. How long would you expect these wrenches to stay in calibration without use? Others in this thread said they had very recent cal dates and so you wouldn't worry about those but I'm just wondering what I should expect from this one I've got and when I'll need to think of getting it calibrated down the road. I don't know how much time vs use effects these split beam torque wrenches.
I did get to try it out the other night doing a failed brake job. Turns out my car has 272mm rotors and a different caliper and brake pad than other same year Jetta TDIs with 260mm rotors. Advanced Auto Parts lists both rotors and all the pads and calipers all together as "Exact Fit" with no mention of there being different options. Luckily idparts.com was able to steer me to the right stuff for my car and it's on the way. In the mean time though, this torque wrench worked great and was so much easier to adjust and use than the micrometer type. Not that those are necessarily hard but these are stupid simple. Flick down the lever, dial it in, snap it shut and away you go! I'm tempted to try to take the plate off the head to see what the mechanism looks like. I might do a video on the tool this weekend and if I do I may in fact do that to get some gut shots. All in all I'm real happy with it. I'm glad that I didn't end up picking up one of the CDi Amazon Warehouse Deals wrenches I almost grabbed for around the same price. I'm sure those are nice too but this seems somehow cooler.
Also that tooldiscounter deal is still running, I'm surprised they are still on sale.
