VANPOAdjustable Torque Wrench, 10-170 Ft-Lb/13.6-230.5 Nm, 38MM Open End Torque Wrench, 1/2 Inch Drive Torque Wrench with Interchangeable Jaw & Ratchet Head for HVAC, Car, Moto, Heat Pump Piping

Purchased for one job and it worked as expected. Quality is as expected for the price paid, a certainly cheaper than hiring someone to do the job!

I bought and installed a Mr Cool 24K BTU mini-split in my shop. One requirement of installation was to torque the lineset connections at evaporator and condenser units prior to opening valves. While I own other torque wrenches, I had no crow's foot sockets that large in metric sizes and the price to purchase a full set of decent crow's foot was more than I cared to spend for something I am unlikely to use again. Instead, I purchased this unique torque wrench with an interchangeable adjustable wrench and standard ratchet head, which I will likely use again. It was worked very well for torquing the lineset to the required 55-60 ft-lb, which is not small feat while standing on a ladder, though I needed to use a cheater to get the necessary leverage in place.The blow molded plastic case makes a great place to store the wrench on a shelf until I need it again.

EDIT March 12, 2024: The seller refunded the purchase price of the wrench. I bought it based on the strong reviews and I'm hoping I just got a lemon. I will buy another one.ORIGINAL REVIEW: The wrench is impressive in appearance and weight. It looks and feels like a quality tool. But the torque settings are WAY off and destroyed a copper flare on my mini split.The VANPO wrench seemed to work fine with the 1/2" line using Senville torque specs of 35-37 Nm. But when I tried to torque the 1/4" line at 18-20 Nm the wrench kept turning and turning. I was really cranking it down waiting for the "break" and it didn't come when I felt it should have. Then I finally got the click indicating I was at about 19 Nm. I did a nitrogen pressure test and the fitting failed miserably. When I took off the nut I discovered the copper tubing had totally been crushed. I cut it off and re-flared the tubing and this time I just tightened it by feel. Not a good way to install a mini split! Turns out I'm about 10 days beyond the return window. Sigh.

My final update is that VANPO has great customer service. They proactively reached out to me to remedy the situation and make things right. That almost never happens in this day and age!I'm providing a second update that VANPO reached out to me based upon my review to try to help with my issues. I'm very pleasantly surprised by this and have added a star for this outreach. I'll will provide an updated review based upon the customer service that I receive.Quick update to clarify that I purchased the torque wrench that included the ratchet and crescent heads so it would appear there are multiple models that are being reviewed for this particular product.I needed a crescent wrench style torque wrench to tighten some very large HVAC lineset nuts. I just tried this VANPO adjustable torque wrench and based upon reviews I was nervous as to how accurate it is. This turned out to be well-founded. The reason I am being careful is that I have literally one-shot at getting my HVAC lineset torqued to the proper spec and if it is too loose I lose all my refrigerant and if I get it too tight it will strip and/or break the mounting brackets. I used a known-accurate torque wrench to compare to this wrench and measurements were wildly off between 10-30%. As best I can tell, the accuracy gets worse the higher the torque so I am guessing there is some sort of calibration that is non-linear. In any case, this tool is a big YMMV and I strongly encourage those that will use it to test to ensure you have an accurate wrench. It would appear some reviewers are happy so hopefully this is limited to just a few of us. Regardless, I cannot go more than 1 out of 5 stars for this reason and will be returning it to get my hard-earned $100 back.

This would be a really cool like $20 wrench.The torque setting just doesn't work? Maybe it's a 5 star product and I got unlucky and it's user error but it doesn't seem that complicated, it just doesn't really make an audible click or anything, at 20-30 Nm setting it just kept going with no indication until it in reality probably went past 60 Nm.Just spend like $30 more at this pricepoint and get a digital one.

This was received on time and worked perfectly for what I needed it for. It was easy to use and appeared to be of very high quality. I have a bolt on my 5th wheel hitch that I do not have enough room to get a socket onto and this open end torque wrench worked perfectly and gave me the peace of mind when pulling my RV that everything was torques down to the proper value.

Torque on Mini-split flare fittings is important to avoid leaks so you need a wrench that you can get on the fittings and is fairly accurate.I tested this against my two other torque wrenches and it was very close - no way to tell which one was off, but I'm confident that this was in the 5% range that is about as good as you'll find in wrenches costing less than a thousand bucksOne of the great features is the inclusion of the ratchet head - If this is your only torque wrench, you're going to be happy about that.All in all I was happy with the purchase and would buy again.

This wrench looks great, however the torque setting seemed to be more than twice the listed ft/lb. This is also noted in other similar reviews. As a result, setting the wrench to about 14lbs/ft actually allowed over 30 pounds of force to be applied to my 14/inch lineset coupling and absolutely destroyed my minisplit lineset. Now I have to completely re-flare 4 lineset couplings, something which adds an entirely new level of complexity to my project.