cordless impact wrench
Teching In
Joined: Jun 2002
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From: Chicago
How would one of those 12 volt impact wrenches that you plug into the cigarette lighter work? Just looking for something cheap I can carry with me and it seems like would be as practical as a cordless expensive version since I could just plug it in my cig lighter if I every need to use it. Something like this...
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=36175
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92349
Does anyone have anything like this...if so how do you like it? Do they have enough power to take off the lug nuts?
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=36175
http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/cta...emnumber=92349
Does anyone have anything like this...if so how do you like it? Do they have enough power to take off the lug nuts?
Hey, not to bring an old thread back from the dead...I was curious if any of you guys knew where to get the Matco gun for less than $410 direct from Matco. I know it's the same gun as Ingersoll Rand, but the red and black gun will look a lot cooler with all of my other red and black tools...I guess I'm a tool ricer
I know alot of you guys have seen Tim the tool man taylor say more power. In the summer taking some bolts off of my car my 400 lb impact gun didnt do anything to them. I had to take it to a shop that had a 1,000 lb to finally get them off. I wouldn't personally buy anything wimpy in the 200 ft lb range. You might as well use a long socket wrench or wrench.
Teching In
Joined: Sep 2004
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I guess it depends on if you guys do a lot of heavy line work, but I just got a 9.6v hitachi cordless impact. I work at an audi dealer and everyone has that 9.6V makita 3/8" drive mode, which is great, but I found the hitachi for $50 on ebay. The only difference is mine has the 1/4" bit shank, but I just bought a few 1/4" and 3/8" square adapters. It's about 50 ft/lbs and I use it everywhere on the car. I'd like to get a big IR cordless model for tires, but it's not so much of an inconvenience my air impact. Ideally a 14V and the big 19.2V IR would mske a perfect setup.
At the last place that I worked, we had the 18V DeWalt variety of tools, and I used the impact about 2 years without any problems at all. I was impressed by it, especially how well it took punishment. The one we had was used every day, and I abused severely and never gave any trouble. I dropped it out of a JLG lift onto concrete from about 15 feet up and it survived.
