Re: Impact Wrench

Posted by MHMalcolm on July 27, 2009 at 10:49:46 from (66.66.148.252):

In Reply to: Impact Wrench posted by rustin on July 27, 2009 at 07:25:30:

Which one you should buy and how much you should spend has a lot to do with how much you are going to actually use it. If you are buying one for general home shop use that is only going to get used once in a while, I would probably look at some of the lower priced 1/2" drive air impacts that Sears has. I don"t own one myself, but my father in law bought one last year when he was putting a trailer hitch on his pick up and had to remove some 14 mm rusted bolts. I had been skeptical, but he said it worked great, and he has just a 1 HP Craftsman compressor. If you are going to be using it on an every day basis for general tractor and equipment repair, I would still go with a 1/2" air impact, and I guess I would have to recommend Ingersoll Rand. Back around 1982 I bought a brand new Snap-On, what was supposed to be their top of the line, for about $385 with sockets. A guy that worked in the same shop had an Ingersoll Rand that was probably 6 years old that he had beat to death, but it would twist off a 1/2" bolt with no problem if you weren"t careful. My Snap-On always worked fine for me, but it never had that kind of torque. I remember at the time I was so impressed with it that I asked the Snap-On salesman how much a new IR gun like the one the other mechanic had would cost. I was kind of disappointed when he told me it was $150. I had spent over twice as much on mine. I still have my Snap-On, but if I were going to buy a new one today, I would go with an IR. IR also makes them for other companies, and I know at one time or another they have made some models for Snap-On, Mac, and others, and probably still do. We had a DeWalt electric 1/2" impact at the shop I last worked at, primarily for road service. I never used it, but the technicians used to tell me it definitely didn"t have the power of a good air impact. I"m just going by what they said. I suppose if you had a small air compressor this would not necessarily be the case.

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