- Dude freak me up.
- All right, here we go.
- Hit me right in face.
Oh my God.
We're testing Torque wrenches today.
- Woo.
- We got $45 versus
- $155
versus $450 Torque wrench.
Do you really need to spend 10 times the money just
to accurately tighten your nuts and bolts?
- I don't know, Jobe.
Let's find out.
- Lets
did I almost hit you?
- Yeah.
- Sorry.
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- Well, I've been trying all day to
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Donezo,
looks great.
I'm so proud of you.
- What's up guys?
I know you guys are filming.
I'm sorry about that.
I just gotta grab a few tools here.
- No way
no!
- See you guys.
- He is awful.
- Why would I need one of these Torque wrenches?
- Well, Torque wrenches let you accurately
tighten your nuts and bolts.
You don't want things to be too loose or too tight.
So these let you do things accurately and safely, you know?
So like your wheels stay on your car, right?
- Yeah. That's kind of important.
- Let's pop these boxes open.
Let's see the cheap one.
- Yeah.
This is the epauto,
1/2 inch drive
click torque ranch
25 to 250 foot pounds,
easy storage,
easy to read.
- Whoa. It comes with extensions.
- Whoa,
- Action on the heads decent.
I mean,
- It's not got a lot of teeth,
- but it's got some
- This one's pretty simple.
Just loosen at the bottom,
tighten
which is, you know, more standard.
- You know, it doesn't feel cheap.
Next we've got the Harper freight special there.
ICON, professional flex head torque wrench
1/2 inch drive
50 to 250 foot pounds,
155 bucks.
Really not too bad of a price,
lifetime guarantee
- Lifetime guarantee.
That's kind of important.
- We got a flex head,
which allows 15 to degree of rotation
for knuckle and obstruction clearance.
Also much like you
it's got a chrome plated hardened steel body.
- Mm
oh nice case with the
- Nice case with a window up top.
I really like this.
This is just like a kind of one handed type
of locking mechanism.
So you just pull down
and you can adjust.
Let go.
And then it's locked.
- Can't read the numbers as easily.
- No, but if we're being honest
my eyes are good enough to deal with this.
It's really not that bad.
- So this is $450
- 450 smackers
- 10 times as much
- And it doesn't even come with any bullet points
or cardboard
- And it has a 12 month warranty.
- Wow. So not quite the lifetime.
The Harbor freight comes with
- Unless your life is only 12 months long
- Which you know, hopefully it ain't
- It's sleek.
It's minimal.
- It's kinda skinny.
- Yeah. It's got the same d-turn handle.
Yeah. Good head.
Good
good head
- Jesus Christ
- We got all three of them here.
- Yep.
- The handle on this is a little bit nicer.
- I like it too.
A little beef here,
- A little bigger.
- So the epauto
and the Harbor freight ranch are both made in Taiwan.
And then the Snap-On is made in the states.
(wrenches clicking)
That's my favorite sound.
- Check into our tool party ASMR channel
where Jobe and I will sleep, sleep.
Get you sound asleep.
- Now let's talk testing.
What are we gonna do to these to torque wrenches?
- Well, the first thing we're gonna do is test accuracy
straight out the box to see how these things are
when you go and purchase them from your store
- Yep.
See if they're actually hitting the numbers
that they say on the wrench
- Then we're gonna put 'em through a series of tests,
beat 'em up a little bit.
Then we're gonna go back to the calibrator
and see how they compare to their out-of-box back
- Yep.
See if they maintain their accuracy.
- This is a nice Torque Wrench Calibrator.
- Yeah. That's gonna show us what the torque Wrench
is actually doing
and whether or not that reflects what we've got
on the handle of these wrenches.
- Right.
- We're gonna start at 50 foot pounds.
So that means we set the wrench to 50 foot pounds
and the calibrator to 50 foot pounds.
Now this is actually a really cool tool.
We can set it to the desired accuracy range
- The epauto claims plus or minus 4%.
- I think that's pretty much the standard, yeah.
So when we go through this
it'll give us either a yellow or a red light.
If it's below or above
or a green light
if it falls within the plus or minus 4%,
$45 cheap boy.
- Right?
- Let's see how it works at the low end of the spectrum.
50 foot pounds,
49.48
49.38
48.21.
That's a lot of green light.
Jerry you're doing great.
(wrench clicking)
That's 10.
You did it.
Give me them numbers.
- We have an average of 49.099,
1.8% than our target market
- That's really good.
Said it's within 4%.
That's within 4%.
- Yeah.
- Let's see how she does at 140 pounds.
- We had an average of 94.582.
And now we're outside our range.
We're at 5.42%.
Okay.
250 foot pounds of toys.
- Oh my God.
That's a lot.
You're gonna break a sweat today, bud.
- I know you ready.
Average 257 for 3.02%
- Not bad.
It did pretty good for $45 range
- 45 bucks.
That's great.
Yeah. I mean it fell outside in the, in the mid
which is to be honest, probably what you want.
- That's where I want it to be the best
- You want it to be the best.
All right.
So we got the ICON $155 torque wrench
from Harbor Freight.
- Give me 10 rips Gerald.
- Okay.
Oh, this is a cool shot right here.
We're making magic.
50 foot pounds.
We had an average of 44.711
for a difference of minus 10.58%
- Yeah. That's not great
- That's not good at all.
A hundred foot pounds.
We had an average of 94.774 foot pounds
550 average of 249.
- Okay, So we got a little closer
at the top of the scale,
- A little closer so we're at 0.13%.
Well, within the plus minus that's 4%
but it failed at two outta the three.
Let's see if really we're gonna get our money's worth for
- 450 bucks.
I reckon we better.
- Oh, I hope so.
Otherwise
Snap-on might come kill us.
Freak me up
- Right. Here we go.
(wrench clicking)
We have some very interesting data here.
- Indeed.
- 50 foot pounds at an average
51.0 foot pounds.
- All this money must be worth it.
- Yep.
- How to did it do on a 100 foot pounds?
- 102.22 foot pounds.
That's spectacular.
- 2.22%.
- Wow. How about 250?
- Oh, I wanna just rock your little socks off you.
- You can get my socks off without taking my shoes off.
I'll give you a hundred bucks.
- I could definitely do that
- But you can't damage my shoes.
- Okay. Alright.
I was just gonna cut your foot off.
250.05.
- Holy crap.
- 0.02%.
- I think for once we might be seeing additional value
with additional money spent.
They all did pretty good
- Snap-On the best.
- But honestly, the question that I have is not so much
about when these things are new,
but like what about after a year of having it,
once you've used it a bunch.
Are these still then accurate?
Are they maybe more accurate
or are they less accurate?
- I would think they
- Those ar the three options.
- Yeah.
- Let's just test the a hundred foot pound range
and see if we got any better,
any worse
or if there's any appreciable change at all
- Let's go
- After using these things 420 times.
Jimmy. You ready, dude?
All right, man.
Okay.
This is clicking and counting.
- Yeah.
- Everybody's responsible for counting to 420.
- Okay.
- So on the count of 3, 3, 2, 1 go.
(wrench clicking)
- All right.
10, 9, 8,
7, 6,
5, 4, 3,
- Shut up
- 2, 1.
- Oh I lost count,
good work boys
- For the epauto,
before it had an average run of 94.58 foot pounds
But now after 420 uses,
we are at 99.14 less than a percent off
That's great
- But the fun continues
for the ICON had an average of 94.77.
- Yeah. I was kind of let down.
- After we hit this thing 420 times,
99.34.
- whoa.
Even better.
Dang.
- And then moving on to the Snap-On.
- Yeah.
It's gonna be like tough for it to get better
- Before we were at 102.22 average
still within the spec.
- Yep.
Pretty good.
- Now we're at 99.947,
.05%.
- That's like almost a 100%.
- That's like perfect.
So they just, they just need to get greased up a little.
- Yeah.
- You just gotta to give 'em a few clicks.
- The spring that makes that click noise probably
breaks in a little bit.
- Yeah.
All speculation to be honest
but they are doing better after being used a bit.
So that's all fine in dandy for when you're using the tool
the way it's meant to be used.
That's basically what we've been doing thus far
but I wanna see how these things handle being misused.
We've got the $45 epauto torque wrench.
I've got it set at a hundred foot pounds,
but I'm gonna keep pulling
and we're gonna try to hit like 300.
- You're gonna need some assistance I reckon,
there's no way you can do 350.
You're a (beep)
- Well, first off,
watch this
250.
- Okay. Ready, Jobe?
Yeah.
- You got 177,
350.
- Woo.
- Well you gey, you went to 400.
- That's cause I'm stronger in hell.
Now we've got the $155 Harbor freight ICON
toque wrench loaded up
and we're gonna over torque it.
- We got the Snap-On, on hooked in
- $450 worth of metal.
- Are you ready to get your twist on?
- Yeah I mean
I feel a little bit bad,
but I'm also looking forward to it.
- All right, here we go.
(wrench breaking)
- [Henry] You got me.
- You alright.
- [Henry] Dude that smoked me.
- It hit me right in that chest.
- This spring hit you?
- [Henry] It hit me right in the face.
- Oh really?
- [Henry] Yeah.
- Oh damn,
- Snap-On might come kill us.
Look at that.
A sheered right off from there
- Just came immediately apart.
Did you see what torque I was at when that happened?
- No,
- I wasn't even in it yet.
- Right.
You weren't even in it.
- I mean, obviously that's a misuse of a torque wrench
but I don't it should come apart like that.
- We have so much more testing to to
- Our first DNF
- Our first DNF before we got to torture testing.
Holy (beep)
and why it broke here too.
That's such a weird place.
- I mean the, the pipe could have been putting
some kind of weird load on it.
You know, being a little bit crooked in there
and like you know, sort of leaning against this part
but still.
It's also not doing made in USA any good.
- Yeah.
So then there were two.
- Yeah, I guess so.
Oh, let's go use the cheaper torque wrenches.
Terrible shot for a basketball player.
Is this far away?
I can almost touch you.
- Okay. Give me the (beep) thing again
and I'll show you that I can do it correctly.
Give it to me again
- All right,
Let's get back to the test.
- Our cheap $45 one.
It's still under 1%.
- No way
- At an average of 100.962.
- Wow.
- The icon got worse actually.
It had an average of 96.49,
3.51%.
And it was under 1% before.
- Oh, dang, but still within it's you know
- Still in spec
- And this is in one piece.
- Yeah.
Now we're gonna do the actual torture.
- Yeah.
(upbeat music)
- Hey Joe, I need a torque wrench.
can you tossed me that one.
- Yeah.
I've got a $45 torque wrench from epauto
here for you.
- Thank you, man.
I appreciate it.
- Sick catch dude.
Here, since you didn't catch that one
I'll throw you this $155 one.
- Ah, thank you.
This one's better.
- Dude you suck at catching.
- All right no I'm done.
I don't need anymore.
- I'll put these right away.
- Actually I forgot.
I actually do need to torque something again.
Nice.
Thank you.
Appreciate that.
- Okay. Here goes the $45 epauto torque wrench,
going down about 25 feet.
- Good smack
- Pretty solid thud.
- Real solid.
See how I hit the diamond plate?
- Yeah,
- You can too.
Yeah, I know I can.
- Oh, okay.
Here's the ICON.
- I (beep) knew it.
- Ah
- Bullseye.
- 100 points for bullseye in the spray paint dot
- Line counts.
- Sure.
- Oh, that's, that's a 10 pointer.
- Oh man.
(beep)
- Watch this
you ready?
- Yeah.
- Whoa. I like the method.
You did bad though.
- I did bad.
I shot it.
It's okay.
Cause I'm about to bullseye this (beep) right here.
Bullseye.
Oh
- Well you got 10 points
- 20.
- Yeah, You're on the line.
- Sure.
How does yours look?
- Honestly, not bad.
I mean, there's some scuffing,
but if you just handed this to me,
I wouldn't guess it had just
gone thrown off a roof four times,
- Our bottom tier $45 toque wrench
It has an average of 101.54,
1.55%.
- That's fantastic.
Still in spec.
- Wow.
- That's my type of tool.
- Now the ICON on the other hand
- Kind of a letdown
- 21.17%.
So way outta spec.
- So I mean, I think the lesson we can learn
from throwing these off the roof
is that that's a bad idea
- Yeah.
Don't do that.
- But for some reason or another,
the Harbor freight dealt with it way worse
than the cheapest torque wrench I could find,
that goes up to 250 foot pounds.
- Right
Now I will say this,
if you're not abusing your tools like this,
then the snap-On wins.
- Yeah.
It was the most accurate for sure.
- Right.
But it's just such a disappointment for $450.
- Right.
- And you top,
that it's made in the USA
I almost killed Henry
And that would put me in prison
and Henry be dead.
And honestly, I don't want either of those things.
So for me today,
it's pretty clear.
epauto is the winner.
- epauto takes the cake.
(upbeat music)
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- Goodbye
- later.
- [Henry] That's a wrap.
- Yeah.