Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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07/04/21 12:05 AM
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Wow I was not expecting the love for electric impacts but when I looked at the specs they are not like the one I bought years ago. They are a new beast. Definitely looking at them now. I am shifting from Dewalt 18V tools to Craftsman but I am now rethinking that. The bolt I have to remove is a tenacious. I used the old breaker bar against the ground and hitting the starter and it had no effect. My current Air impact is rated at 800 or 900 ft lbs but that was out of the box and it's pretty old now. I think I am going with the Dewalt 20V or the IR Air Unit. Is this the Dewalt everyone like? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01D61NSUSThe IR unit is this one. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00LV9YC76I can get either one locally or overnight from amazon since I live in a big city. That’s it, the dewalt. Don’t know about the other one.
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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I have the feeling that the lifespan of one of those multipliers when used with an impact wrench, any impact wrench, would not be very long. Think about taking a ratchet and beating on the handle with a hammer to loosen a fastener.
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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For Electric I have a Ryobi 1/2" and it is really stout, easily the strongest thing Ryobi makes because most of thier stuff isn't super stout.
For Pneumatic I had to go by a better one when I was tearing down the Dana to go in my car. I bought the Harbor Freight "Earthquake". It is a beast and handled the pinion nut on that old Dana no problem where my old no name didn't have a chance. Since I don't use pneumatic much I went with the harbor freight, it did have great reviews and I would give it a great review as well. Excellent Value.
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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I have the feeling that the lifespan of one of those multipliers when used with an impact wrench, any impact wrench, would not be very long. Think about taking a ratchet and beating on the handle with a hammer to loosen a fastener. Not supposed to use an impact on them. We used them when I climbed wind turbines, but not with an impact and the good ones were not cheap. However, we were using them to torque stuff so they had to be accurate. The Northern tool cheapo might be ok for disassembly, but most impacts ought to exceed it's rated capacity anyway so unless you don't have an impact it's doesn't make sense.
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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A bit off topic but I just bought a Dewalt 8v battery-rechargeable screw driver. Figured it's good quality and will last. The big mistake I made was getting the gyroscopic one. Maybe it's just me but I find it to be a PITA having to turn it to activate and getting it to operate at the rpm I want.
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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07/05/21 06:51 AM
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I have the feeling that the lifespan of one of those multipliers when used with an impact wrench, any impact wrench, would not be very long. Think about taking a ratchet and beating on the handle with a hammer to loosen a fastener. Not supposed to use an impact on them. We used them when I climbed wind turbines, but not with an impact and the good ones were not cheap. However, we were using them to torque stuff so they had to be accurate. The Northern tool cheapo might be ok for disassembly, but most impacts ought to exceed it's rated capacity anyway so unless you don't have an impact it's doesn't make sense. I have never used an impact with a Torque multiplier. I have a Williams that is 37 years old. I posted the torque multipliers because many people have the mindset: I have got to use an air/electric impact gun to loosen this big tough nut. The huge slurry pumps made of super hard, wear resistant “White Iron” like the Georgia Iron Works or Warman are also hugely expensive. They have huge nuts to torque but you need to avoid big impact guns that could crack a $40,000 casing. With the torque multipliers you can gently and predictably tighten and loosen. If it is your desire to actually break a bolt, you can do that gradually too, the bolt does not have to “snap” In mining schools that study the strength of rocks it has been a big advance to use “stiff” monster sized presses to slowly find the breaking strength of rocks. Most rock failures in tunnels fail slowly, although terrifying “rock bursts” or “bumps” do happen.
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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07/05/21 11:32 AM
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you mentioned "rock bursts or bumps"............. a couple of days ago, there was a bunch of people on a boat somewhere, taking pictures/video of a rock cliff somewhere, and the whole side collapsed into the lake, causing a tidal wave toward the boat those people was on ! luckily, none were hurt, but just seeing it on tv made me jump ! i know my standard response when someone asks me if i want to go out on a boat, : "i can't swim, so i'll stay on shore and guard the beer !" makes more sense than ever now !
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Re: Best easily available impact wrench.
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07/06/21 07:12 PM
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Just an update. There are several kids in the neighborhood that work on cars and borrow my tools. This time they loaned me the tool. I used a Milwaukee Fuel 18V. I was very impressed, it took it a few seconds but it pulled the bolt. I dodged a bullet and didn't have to buy one this time but I will be getting an electric impact. Even though the Milwaukee has better specs I am leaning towards the Dewalt because I have a lot of Dewalt and a couple Craftsman battery tools. I just don't want to have to have multiple tools that don't use the same batteries. Thank you all for the advice. Had I not asked I would have bought an air impact and I will definitely get more use from the battery powered one.
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