{"id":1024,"date":"2024-04-18T20:06:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2024-04-18T20:06:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T20:06:58","slug":"hardware-talk-real-avid-smart-torq-wrench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tactical-dailynews.com\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Hardware Talk: Real Avid Smart Torq Wrench"},"content":{"rendered":"<div> <!-- image --><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure> <noscript><\/noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-avid-smart-torq-wrench-feature-768x481.jpg\" alt=\"Hardware Talk: Real Avid Smart Torq Wrench\" title=\"Hardware Talk: Real Avid Smart Torq Wrench\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Real Avid Smart Torq is a handy bench tool for making your fasteners properly tight. The Smart Torq features 1-inch increments, from 10 to 70.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>I still remember my late father teaching me about engine work: rebuilding carburetors, the proper sequence of tightening lug nuts or the intricacies of various engine parts.<\/p>\n<p>And the mysterious tool known as a torque wrench.<\/p>\n<p>Firearms threaded fasteners didn\u2019t receive such care back in the 1960s. Back then, tight was tight. Now, we know better. There\u2019s a proper torque level for screws on your firearms, be they action screws or optics screws. And those numbers aren\u2019t arbitrary. They matter.<\/p>\n<p>Real Avid, as we all fully expect, has an answer. Their Smart Torq wrench isn\u2019t sturdy enough to reassemble a Ford Windsor 351, but I haven\u2019t had to do that since 1983. However, what it offers are useful things to tinkering gunners.<\/p>\n<p>First, it\u2019s calibrated in inch-pounds, so you can tighten all the various fasteners on your firearms, and not over-torque them. Trying to coax a foot-pound wrench into delivering 3 pounds (36 inches) can be nerve-wracking. (You know how I know this. And if you don\u2019t know, then you don\u2019t want to know.)<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1021\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-avid-smart-torq-wrench.jpg\" alt=\"real-avid-smart-torq-wrench\" class=\"wp-image-293398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-avid-smart-torq-wrench.jpg 1021w, https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-avid-smart-torq-wrench-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-avid-smart-torq-wrench-768x481.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-avid-smart-torq-wrench-696x436.jpg 696w, https:\/\/gundigest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/real-avid-smart-torq-wrench-670x420.jpg 670w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1021px) 100vw, 1021px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The settings are easy to set, easy to read and easy to hear when you\u2019ve reached the proper torque setting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>And the settings are easily adjusted, audible and can be read at a glance. It has its settings in increments of 1 inch-pound, which is another bonus. You don\u2019t have to split the difference, or flip a coin, between 5-pound settings, for example. The range is from 10 inch-pounds up to 70, which covers pretty much everything on a firearm I\u2019ve ever had to tighten.<\/p>\n<p>The working end of the Smart Torq is a hex-socket, so you can use whatever bit you need. All sizes, designs and types are yours for the selecting out of an array. And one more detail: There\u2019s an included 90-degree handle you can use to push or pull the wrench until it\u2019s up to torque, and use your other hand to simply keep the wrench firmly in contact with the screw.<\/p>\n<p>The Real Avid Smart Torq comes in its own zippered storage container, with the 90-degree handle and a starter selection of a dozen driver bits. Since it\u2019s a standard hex-socket, the entire big-box hardware store selection of bits is available as you need them.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of sturdy, if the Smart Torq has one fault, it\u2019s that it\u2019s not pocketable. It is perhaps a bit big to have in a gear bag at the range, unless your range sessions are like mine: Pack like you\u2019re leaving forever (sometimes it feels like that.) For me, the Smart Torq is going to be a bench tool and not a range bag tool. But that\u2019s fine, because that\u2019s where most of my scope mounting, and stock-to-action assembly, is done.<\/p>\n<p>So, the Smart Torq takes its place on the bench next to the racks of screwdriver, Allen, torx and other bits, ready to be used in assembling the next project. And you\u2019ll find the entire kit with a street price of about $80. It\u2019s not super-cheap, but what you get is certainly worth the money.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and carburetors? They mixed air with gasoline in the feed system of an internal combustion engine, and when in tune things were great. When not, performance and mileage sucked. I don\u2019t know that there has been an engine made for a U.S. car with a carburetor since 1990. 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