A crushed carbon steerer from just going by feel?

Start with a simple project you already know fits well in real life. Seeing the digital version match your physical sample builds that trust fast. It's the quickest way to get over the mental block.

Tell me about it, my jar of weird old screws is basically a hardware graveyard.

My buddy Mark bought a pro heat gun for his model trains. He used it twice before his girlfriend's cheap Conair took over. That thing lives on his workbench now, and the expensive gun is still in the box from three years ago. He says the hair dryer is just faster to grab and does the job fine. It's funny how the simple tool wins out most of the time.

Man, that's scary to think about. I had the same thing happen with a cheap click-type torque wrench from a parts store. It felt fine but was way off when I checked it against a digital one. What kind of torque wrench did your buddy have you use? I mean, I just do the final tighten with a good beam-style wrench now. It's old school and you gotta see the dial right, but I trust it more.