torque screwdrivers- since when?

[Sidecutter]

I always have the Manufacturers instructions to hand when changing a fusebox. I always scrible the ring and R1+R2 readings down on the back of them while im testing and wiring circuits into it LOL

 

[Evans Electric]

A competent person would always follow the manufactures instructions )

So they are forcing "a competent person" to spend another hard to come by

 

[adammid]

So is this a recent thing then?

 

[Sidewinder]

Torque screwdrivers have been around for over 30 years, so they are not new.

 

[kerching]

Torque screwdrivers have been around for over 30 years, so they are not new.

I have 3 or 4 torque screwdrivers...they are not new either:innocent

 

[adammid]

I just seem to be hearing a lot about them recently. Just wondered what the recent craze was with them?

 

[Andy™]

We are now incompetent at tightening a screw without special tools

 

[Sidewinder]

The "recent" craze in the electrical installation industry is to do with manufacturers instructions.

There are a few reasons for this.

I DO know what these reasons are, but, trust me you don't want me to start stating them, unless you want me banned.

 

[adammid]

So have manufacturers recently gone crazy?

 

[wozz]

Is it to do with that? What's the oldest instructions with a specified torque? Or is it so do with scheme providers 'enforcing' it in the loosest (spelling/even a word?) sense.

 

[samson337]

Might be the craze called, cover your arse itis

 

[steptoe]

[quote name='Andy

 

[springcrocus]

Torque screwdrivers? Bah! Another nonsense imposed on us.

I suppose next year we will all have to have a "British Standard Finger" in our toolboxes to be able to check the accuracy of IP1x apertures in enclosures.

The following year, we will all need to find a British Standard Ar*ehole" to calibrate it in.

The worlds gone mad. Mad, I tell ye....

 

[steptoe]

Torque screwdrivers? Bah! Another nonsense imposed on us.I suppose next year we will all have to have a "British Standard Finger" in our toolboxes to be able to check the accuracy of IP1x apertures in enclosures.

The following year, we will all need to find a British Standard Ar*ehole" to calibrate it in.

The worlds gone mad. Mad, I tell ye....

:slap

well, plenty of them to be found in the scams,

just search 5WFW

 

[philbas]

[quote name='Andy

 

[Evans Electric]

Torque screwdrivers? Bah! Another nonsense imposed on us.I suppose next year we will all have to have a "British Standard Finger" in our toolboxes to be able to check the accuracy of IP1x apertures in enclosures.

The following year, we will all need to find a British Standard Ar*ehole" to calibrate it in.

The worlds gone mad. Mad, I tell ye....

Perhaps all sparks in future will have to have a " British Standard Ar$ehole " so that "British Standard Finger " can re-calibrated everyday. Should be part of Part P scam membership.

 

[springcrocus]

Perhaps all sparks in future will have to have a " British Standard Ar$ehole " so that "British Standard Finger " can re-calibrated everyday. Should be part of Part P scam membership.

Anybody want to buy a load of yellow 77, going cheap? ; \

 

[steptoe]

OK,

so do we all have to have a 5WW, or can we just go to a calibration centre that has a 5WW,

better still, how about using the prison service, they have ********s in every grade I expect, right from the 5WW [who should be in jail for fraud] ,for IPx1, right up to the 92mm downlighter size.!

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Anybody want to buy a load of yellow 77, going cheap? ; \

KY may be a better market to be in. :|

 

[springcrocus]

KY may be a better market to be in. :|

:^O

Probably, but I have more than enough yellow 77 to last me until I retire. Hoping to off-load some....

 

[kerching]

So have manufacturers recently gone crazy?

Well [and these are my personal and Merlot fuelled musings, so therefore are Gospel and NOT to be decried in any way shape or form]

It started a couple of years ago when manufacturers realised it was cheaper to affix a sticker that stated [check all connections are tight, even factory installed ones] than it was to tighten them correctly in the first place!....'Merchantable quality' anybody??

If we 'have to check connections' what do we 'check' them against? The only source of reference is the Manufacturers Data. If they mention a Torque setting then we have to 'check the Torque' and not just 'Talk the Torque'

The 7671 mentions 'manufacturers instructions must be followed'....[even if they are wrong? :innocent ]

Then the manufacturers see a bandwagon passing and hitch a ride to the bank, picking up the conscientious passengers along the way, and charging