That was me, thirty-something years ago.There's very little that I grab a torque wrench for. Lugnuts, internal engine bolts, and a few other things. Still, I own at least 5 torque wrenches of different sizes.
Got my aass torn-off by my Supervisor for not putting a torque wrench on Detroit Diesel 6V92--Allison torque converter bolts. I was spinning them in with my impact wrench, giving them what are now called "one or two ugga-duggas". He yelled so loud the entire work force stopped (~35 people, more or less) while he ranted.
The torque spec on the drawing ("blueprint") called for 35 ft/lbs. But as was often the case, the Company "Engineers" (college-degree idiots) had the wrong spec, it was supposed to be 90 ft/lbs...which was what I was achieving using "mechanic's feel" on the impact wrench.
Anyway, to shorten the story...I went home, ordered the MARVELOUS book by Carroll Smith "Nuts, Bolts, Fasteners, and Plumbing Handbook", and read it cover-to-cover. Been using torque wrenches fairly religiously ever since.
There's other books on approximately the same subject matter by Mike Mavrigian, Forbes Aird, John Deere, and others...and they're worth reading, but not as good as the Carroll Smith book.
www.amazon.com/Nuts-Bolts-Fasteners-Plumbing-Handbook/dp/B001OXCTSI?ref_=ast_sto_dp
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