Yeah, if you never have to calibrate and certify the tool it's easy to belive that it is accurate. After all, don't we all have calibrated torque wrists? (There is a fine art to using torque wrenches correctly. Most people don't know it and overtorque everything.)

 

Picked up a torque wrench (inch pounds) from HF on sale for $19.99. This is the third torque wrench from HF that I have purchased. I was a helicopter mechanic in the Marine Corps for 20 years before I retired in 2004. We used Snap-On tools to include torque wrenches to work on our birds. On one of my bikes (Honda CBR 929RR) I was installing a steering dampener and I had to torque the steering neck. Long story short I used the HF torque wrench to apply the low side of the torque setting then used the Snap-On and the Snap-On gave the clicking noise at the applied setting. Then I increased the torque setting by 5 ft lbs and used the Snap-On and the nut moved a little bit and gave me the clicking noise. Then I used the HF with the 5 ft lb increase and it gave me the clicking noise without moving the nut. Not a scientific study but I was happy with my comparison that I purchased two more HF torque wrenches.