Torque Wrench attachment issues

pseymour

I bought an Ice Toolz torque wrench recently but am having difficulty sourcing allen key atatchments for it. The small allen key attachments i've tried from my current socket sets don't seem to fit. I think there's a simple solution to this that i'm overlooking due to my non-mechanical nature. Can anyone help. AllI want to do is to tighten my seatpost bolt to the recommended torque settings.
Many thanks Pete.

Giant Anthem X3 2010

1mancity2

Is it a 3/8 or 1/2 drive wrench?, goto a local tool warehouse supplier and get the adaptor to suit. like this,

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CR-V-3-8-Inch ... 3cbceab973

or 1/2 to 3/8, probably this one I reckon

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Franklin-Sock ... 3cbbefe4a3

weedy1

Yep yep you can get adaptors to change between 1/2, 3/8 and 1/4 drives and sockets/tools.

pseymour

Thanks both. Just to explain a bit further, I have sockets that click onto the torque wrench, but I can't find an attachment that I can then insert into this socket that acts like an allen key. Do I need to buy a specific adaptor to hold an allen key? I don't think the issue is to do with adaptors, but I may be wrong. thanks, Pete.

BigChimping

Halfords they will have all you need

weedy1

oks so if you got a 1/4 drive on your wrench then get one of these or summit like it

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hexagon-b ... s/0547133/

then get either a set of hex bits like these

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hexagon-bits/6159221/

or you can buy individual ones if you know the size you after.

For other drives (1/2" whatever) just get the right size adaptor.

BTW the 'drive size' is the size of the square bit on the wrench just in case you need to size it.

pseymour

Thanks 'Weedy1', thats very helpful.
It looks like I need a Powertool bit adaptor for my 1/4inch wrench. i.e.....

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hexagon-b ... s/2971465/

but it looks like the end that doesn't hold the bit is hexagonal, but my wrench is square. Can you get square ended ones?

The Real Radioactiveman

no you buy a square to hex adapter

as previously posted

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hexagon-b ... s/0547133/

then a set of these to go with it

http://uk.rs-online.com/web/p/hexagon-bits/6159221/

pseymour

Perfect. and ordered.
Your first link didn't work last time so many thanks again for helping me sort it out.
cheers
Pete