Digital torque adapters vs the old beam wrench, numbers surprised me

I ran a comparison last Tuesday on a fleet truck, checking a digital torque adapter against my trusty beam style for 30 lug nuts. The cheap 60 dollar adapter read within 2 foot pounds of the beam every single time, way closer than I figured for that price. Anyone else trust digital adapters for final torque on customer vehicles, or do you stick with click type wrenches?

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the_sage27d ago

Had the same thing happen with my old Proto beam and a Harbor Freight adapter, dead nuts within 1 ft lb across two dozen bolts. Still use the beam for final pass on anything safety related, but the digital unit gets grabbed for the quick stuff now.