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Car Forum / Driving, Maintenance, Tuning / Maintenance and Repair / February 2005Best Cordless Impact Wrench Kit ever!!!
This baby is half price at Amazon and one hell of a good purchase! http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001LQLE2/britcomsforev-20 > This baby is half price at Amazon and one hell of a good purchase! > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001LQLE2/britcomsforev-20 BFD! You evidently don't know how Amazon lists the prices. That kit is available at may other places for the same price. I just checked www.coastaltool.com and they list it as $269. Amazon has some decent prices, but the overly inflated "list" price is not what anything is ever sold for at any time. Try a local dealer or a reputable place like Coastal. > This baby is half price at Amazon and one hell of a good purchase! > > http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001LQLE2/britcomsforev-20 Its a blatant bid for affiliate income it seems. -- Regards, Dean Bielanowski Editor, Online Tool Reviews http://www.onlinetoolreviews.com Over 70 woodworking product reviews online! ------------------------------------------------------------ Latest 6 Reviews: - Incra V27 Miter Gauge - GMC BJ110 Biscuit Joiner - Karcher NT361 Dust Extractor - Ozito Electronic Ear Muffs - Festool TDK Cordless Drills - Jorgensen Cabinet Master Clamps ------------------------------------------------------------ >>This baby is half price at Amazon and one hell of a good purchase! >> >>http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001LQLE2/britcomsforev-20 > > Its a blatant bid for affiliate income it seems. Hardly looks deserving of an exclamation point. I'm waiting for one in the $150 range. Surely it can't cost that much more to make than a good drill-driver. They sure are handy though. >>>This baby is half price at Amazon and one hell of a good purchase! >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] >more to make than a good drill-driver. >They sure are handy though. I had a Makita electric impact wrench and it was fantastic, until the batteries went south, at which time i found out it cost more to replace the batteries and charger than to buy another tool ! I tossed it in the trashcan, reluctantly, and now use the Coleman Powermate Professional 1/2" impact wrench, model P024-0099SP Up to 400 ft/lbs of torque at 90 psi, and has a built in air regulator for 4 torque settings 400 320 300 230 ft/lbs 3 horsepower minimum air compressor recommended. Well I just happen to have a 2 cylinder 3 Hp air compressor in my basement feeding a line that goes outside to my driveway/garage. The only drawback: If you live in an apartment and don't have room for an air compressor, go with the portable electric. Otherwise, my experience with electric impact wrenches varies from piss poor performance ( black & decker No 7945 ) to excellent ( Makita ) Lg >>>This baby is half price at Amazon and one hell of a good purchase! >>> [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > more to make than a good drill-driver. > They sure are handy though. Amen about the handy, brother! We bought a Ryobi 18-volt combo kit at Home Depot for $169. It had circular and reciprocating saws, as well as a drill-driver and two fluff pieces. This weekend, We laid 80 sf of deck on one battery charge. That included sinking 160 4" screws into very dense lumber. Of course, I predrilled with my /corded/ Dewalt half-inch "widow-maker" Any high power drill driver can be modified into a decent impact wrench with a little ingenuity. I've been using the Hitachi equivalent of the Makita impact driver for several months, and it's become an essential tool. It's quite a bit different than using a torquey drill/driver, because it is literally an impact wrench. It'll drive deck screws easy as pie, without stripping out heads or spraining your wrist. And it's great for getting smaller frozen fasteners out. I don't think I would have been able to get all of the stainless screws out of my 15 year old aluminum mast without it. The biggest downside is that it's really LOUD, so I almost always wear earplugs while using it. Aaron Tinling s/v Sweet Destiny www.navagear.com >I've been using the Hitachi equivalent of the Makita impact driver for >several months, and it's become an essential tool. It's quite a bit [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >s/v Sweet Destiny >www.navagear.com If it wasn't for the pricey proprietary batteries these things use, I might have a more favorable opinion of them. The other side of the story is limited run time with batteries. Count on them conking out on you right in the middle of a project. The more load you put on them, the quicker you drain the batteries. It doesn't take all that long before you realize a real driver with an electric motor or a pneumatic gun with an air hose is the only reliable way to do some things. I don't even use battery powered anything anymore except flashlights. I've got corded drills and pneumatic drills, drivers, jack hammers, impact wrenches, and the stuff not running off household current or an air line are powered by 2 cycle gasoline engines. IOW, my opinion of battery operated anything is at an all time low, after tossing tons of money at those tools only to find out they weren't up to the task at hand. YMMV. Lg > >I've been using the Hitachi equivalent of the Makita impact driver for > >several months, and it's become an essential tool. It's quite a bit [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > Lg I had a similar opinion until I got my Ridgid 18 volt set. Comes with a 2 bay charger and charges in 30 minutes. I have never found myself without a charged battery since. Shawn >> >I've been using the Hitachi equivalent of the Makita impact driver for >> >several months, and it's become an essential tool. It's quite a bit [quoted text clipped - 37 lines] > >Shawn It depends on what you are trying to do. Put a 1 inch wood boring bit into that and try to chop some holes through some 4 x 4's. No portable battery pack I've seen to date has enough sustained energy to do the tough stuff. If you stick to "light duty" you'll be pleasantly surprised. If you get into something that requires ENERGY, the batteries don't make the grade. They can't possibly hold enough energy to do many tasks, advertising notwithstanding. I'm amused to see people pretending to put bridges together with their DeWalt impact wrenches. You drive over it first, OK? There isn't enough energy in a battery to properly tighten even ONE nut/bolt assembly. Not even a 1. If you want to do serious work, you bring a gasoline powered electric genny to the worksite and plug in some serious equipment. Leave the toys at home. Lg Or, you could do as one poster here has done, and take a 12v rechargeable, make an insert for a direct connection to your 12v supply, and enjoy all the torque and (relatively) inexaustible AH of your house bank :{)) (Well, I suppose you could haul around a starting or trolling battery if you wanted to go off the boat...) L8R Skip  SignatureMorgan 461 #2 SV Flying Pig http://tinyurl.com/384p2 "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:18:14 -0500, "Skip Gundlach" <skipgundlach sez use my name at earthlink dot fishcatcher (net) - with apologies for the spamtrap> wrote: >Or, you could do as one poster here has done, and take a 12v rechargeable, >make an insert for a direct connection to your 12v supply, and enjoy all the [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Skip I thought about that already, but the weight to energy output ratio vastly favors gasoline 2-cycle engines. A little bit of gas goes a long way. For example, when I was limbing trees, I got an amazing amount of energy/work out of a small tank of gas on my chainsaw. To do that same amount of work with a battery and an electric saw, is unthinkable. Battery technology hasn't advanced that far yet. If it had, we would be driving electric-powered cars instead of gasoline-powered cars by now. For the foreseeable future, in terms of power/energy to weight ratio, it appears petrol holds all the cards. Lg |
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