{"id":656,"date":"2008-02-17T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/review-giustaforza-torque-wrench\/"},"modified":"2008-02-17T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T16:21:00","slug":"review-giustaforza-torque-wrench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/17\/review-giustaforza-torque-wrench\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: GiustaForza Torque Wrench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am a bit of a nut when it comes to obeying torque specs, especially with carbon stuff everywhere these days.<\/p>\n<p>I already own a big full size torque wrench, 1\/4&#8243; drive, huge.. but when you put a socket with a 4mm allen head on it you tend to let the bit squirm and you can strip out the nut you are working on. Also with a 14&#8243; long lever the low torque limits on bike parts feel like nothing.<\/p>\n<p>Enter the Guistaforza from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.effettomariposa.com\/prodotti_en.html#giustaforza_en\">Effetto Mariposa<\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg9_YBBvI\/AAAAAAAAAjk\/iQ4tmyODPVI\/s1600-h\/IMGP3002.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg9_YBBvI\/AAAAAAAAAjk\/iQ4tmyODPVI\/s400\/IMGP3002.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167987190508095218\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It is very small, about the size of regular T-Handle allen wrench.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hhNvYBBxI\/AAAAAAAAAj0\/-6VpKYSVrUk\/s1600-h\/IMGP3004.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hhNvYBBxI\/AAAAAAAAAj0\/-6VpKYSVrUk\/s400\/IMGP3004.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167987461091034898\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Because of the small size, it works great on bike size parts, it does not ratchet like almost every other torque wrench I have used.  It came out even in my totally non scientific test where I compared it to my Ritchey Torqkey and the full size no name $40 torque wrench and they all seemed to read the same at 5nm.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg7vYBBsI\/AAAAAAAAAjM\/CqGRnJ1Y7TM\/s1600-h\/IMGP2998.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg7vYBBsI\/AAAAAAAAAjM\/CqGRnJ1Y7TM\/s400\/IMGP2998.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167987151853389506\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It comes housed in a little plastic box. The box is sort of pain to fit the ziploc baggy full of bits and one long bit with the torque wrench in. Not a show stopper, but not convenient either.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg8fYBBtI\/AAAAAAAAAjU\/RLDABAtM8J0\/s1600-h\/IMGP3000.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg8fYBBtI\/AAAAAAAAAjU\/RLDABAtM8J0\/s400\/IMGP3000.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167987164738291410\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> It looks like they make a pro model now that comes with a $2 injection molded case.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg9fYBBuI\/AAAAAAAAAjc\/qtvmh7V-Dl4\/s1600-h\/IMGP3001.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7hg9fYBBuI\/AAAAAAAAAjc\/qtvmh7V-Dl4\/s400\/IMGP3001.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5167987181918160610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>As you can see in the pic above it adjusts by turning the knob at the bottom of the tool to the desired setting between 2-16Nm.<\/p>\n<p>Overall its a very nice tool, it works well, the small size and light weight make it perfect for working on bikes. In fact it&#8217;s so nice you will check the torque on every bolt on your bike&#8230; I did.<\/p>\n<p>This tools has really picked up a lot of momentum and is now even available through REI, which means Park should make their own version.<\/p>\n<p>Just for comparisons sake here are 3 torque wrenches side by side. The Ritchey Torqkey, guistaforza and a cheap &#8220;clicker&#8221; type torque wrench (that I have since sold, and replaced with the Park TW-2)<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7rb0vYBB3I\/AAAAAAAAAk8\/O6kmhcuWaCg\/s1600\/100_0667.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_Jz4f840sc_c\/R7rb0vYBB3I\/AAAAAAAAAk8\/O6kmhcuWaCg\/s1600\/100_0667.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a bit of a nut when it comes to obeying torque specs, especially with carbon stuff everywhere these days. I already own&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[243,240,244,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-effetto-mariposa-torque-wrench","category-giustaforza-torque-wrench","category-gusta-forza","category-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redrocksreview.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}