Guidance
Insights from the workshop
What we tell clients when they ask, written down: calibration intervals, reading a certificate, choosing tooling, and getting control of a fleet that has drifted.
These are the conversations we have most often, in the order they usually come up. How often a torque wrench really needs calibrating, and why twelve months is a default rather than an answer. What a calibration certificate should say, and how to tell one that proves something from one that is a sticker with paperwork attached. Which tool technology suits which joint, and the range mistake almost every operation makes.
Then the two that cost the most money and get the least attention: what sending tooling out of the country actually costs once downtime and spare fleets are counted, and why a tool register stops matching reality within about a year of anybody looking away.
None of it is sales material. If reading a page here means you do not need to call us, that is a reasonable outcome. If it means you call us knowing exactly what to ask for, better still.
How often should a torque wrench be calibrated?
The honest answer is that twelve months is a default somebody chose for you, and the right interval is one you can defend with evidence.
Read more5 min readReading a torque calibration certificate
Most certificates are filed without being read. The ones worth reading tell you what the tool was doing before anybody adjusted it.
Read more7 min readHydraulic, pneumatic or electric torque tools?
Four technologies, four sets of failure modes, and a choice that is usually made by whatever the last supplier had in stock.
Read more5 min readThe real cost of sending tools out of Zambia
The quotation from a South African laboratory is the least significant number in the decision.
Read more6 min readTool control that survives a mine site
Every operation has a tool register. Very few have one that matches what is on site.
Read more5 min readWhen a hydraulic torque wrench needs attention
Hydraulic wrenches rarely fail suddenly. They degrade, and the symptoms are easy to explain away right up until a joint is wrong.
Read moreTalk to Trackcor
Tell us what you run and where, and we will tell you what a sensible tooling programme looks like for it.