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I bought a used Snap on half inch gun off this very forum and I use it every day its the buisness,
I find I have the tell myself not to use it on that job cos it will rip the threads to bits,
Best £75 I ever spent..
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gruss
Part of things
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Had a mac tools impact gun for years but its been letting me down due to old age, so I took delivery of a brand new ingersoll rand W7150 yesterday. Used it on a Laguna earlier to do the timing belt.... Beast! But very expensive....
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Daihatsu Mira TR-XX Suzuki Alto Works
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Apr 10, 2013 16:31:13 GMT
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I generally think Snap On hand tools to be grossly overpriced, but after a disappointing experience with a cheap cordless impact wrench I stumped up the dollar and bought a Snap On CTU4850 on the recommendation of a friend. Its been brilliant, and I would say one of the best tool investments I have made. I got it second hand, but nearly new, from Ebay. Sadly, I loaned it to some stinking, dreadlocked hippies and they left the box sitting out in the rain for about 3 weeks so the charger is now screwed. Is that covered by the lifetime warranty? I don't wish to divert the attention of thread too much but as far as I know the snap on electrical stuff is only covered by a 12 month warranty. A friend runs his own garage and has a Clarke 24V that he has had about 2-3 years...... battery runs down fairly quick these days but it has had a very hard life.... will undo almost all car wheel nuts and suspension stuff. A snip at £150 odd Alex
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v8ian
Posted a lot
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Apr 10, 2013 21:06:34 GMT
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I have an 18v Dewalt, that has got me out out trouble more than a few times, Breaker bar, I always have one at hand, There is always a case for cracking off over tight nuts. And as for those 12 ciggy lighter things I laughed when my mate pulled one out of a box that he bought in woollies closing sale for £5.00, that was until he undid a drive shaft nut that I knew was tightened to over 300ft/lbs
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Atmo V8 Power . No slicks , No gas + No bits missing . Doing it in style. Austin A35van, very different------- but still doing it in style, going to be a funmoble
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Apr 18, 2013 10:12:21 GMT
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Just dug up an old PPC mag with cordless impact wrenches on test.
Best buy was Makita btw251rfe, budget buy was Clarke cir24, £370 and £107 respectively.
Hope that helps.
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Koos
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Apr 18, 2013 10:53:20 GMT
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quite a lot of people take these to breakers yards when ripping suspension out I'm surprised how good they are if i did have £100 burning a hold i may be tempted
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gruss
Part of things
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Apr 22, 2013 18:18:55 GMT
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I'm steeling my old mac tools cordless impact if anyone is interested?
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Daihatsu Mira TR-XX Suzuki Alto Works
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Apr 26, 2013 14:11:19 GMT
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Bought one of these last weekend to strip some very stubborn awkward bolts on my cossie donor and its a proper bit of kit. Downsides? It's big,not much good at getting into awkward gaps but you can use your extensions/knuckles etc.
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Apr 26, 2013 14:59:28 GMT
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Another thing I just thought of was I was using outside as I have no garage and when undoing a particularly awkward bolt the base of it went into the soft ground and it cut out instantly. I thought it was just a blown fuse due to a heavy load but what had happened was some dirt had got in the back end and got between the brushes. Easy to fix,took the back cover off and cleaned it up but just to be aware that they are more probe to the elements than the pneumatic versions.
Fair play too some of the bolts I couldn't get off with a bar through limited access and this thing just spun them off.
Very tough tool.
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Apr 29, 2013 16:24:45 GMT
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Had one for a few months that I got on one of their VAT free days, and it's excellent frankly, making light work of hubnuts and similar, and at least on par with (frankly excellent) 18v Snap On cordless guns I've used. It's far, far better than the cheaper cordless guns, having previously owned/used both of the Clarke offerings and a Dewalt for example As mentioned above, it's not the smallest thing in the world and hence isn't ideal to squeeze into confined spaces, and there's only on-off rather than variable speed. Obviously being corded it's of no use for scrappy visits or taking to trackdays etc, but for the £50 odd it cost me I don't mind and I wouldn't be without it.
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1990 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 // 1991 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 16v // 1992 Peugeot 205 GTi 1.9 // 1999 Peugeot 306 Meridian HDi Estate
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