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Jan 19, 2016 19:58:45 GMT
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alecf
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Jan 19, 2016 20:03:44 GMT
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Personally I've used a few of the cheaper ones and they aren't much cop.
The wife brought me an 18v milwaukee 1/2" impact gun about 2 years ago. It's been abused massively on landrovers etc and it's still awesome. Not come across anything it can't do.
Yes they are triple your budget however they come up second hand on a mechanics Facebook forum I use.
If it was me I'd save a touch more and look for a better second hand one.
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Jan 19, 2016 20:42:51 GMT
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I have the Clarke one. Out of the box it's not great but once the battery has been discharged and recharged a few times, it gets a bit more beefy. It'll do wheelnuts that aren't massively overtightened. For stuff like suspnesion work it's OK. You might need to crack off some nuts first but it does speed up the process quite a bit.
The sockets it came with are a bit curse word though.
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haggis
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Jan 19, 2016 21:04:34 GMT
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Do yourself a favour, save up for a better gun. When I walk into machine mart, they know my name and account number because i swear by clarke stuff. However i was VERY disappointed with the clarke 24V impact gun that I bought around 5 or 6 years ago. It was so disappointing that I used it 5 or 6 times then left it in my fathers garage for years until i sold it on ebay before xmas I heavily researched guns, noting battery life, torque and of course price and I came to the conclusion of the Kielder gun, from machine mart. www.machinemart.co.uk/p/kielder-kwt-002-1-2-drive-18v-brushless-impac-2/It has nearly DOUBLE the torque of the equivalent sized Dewalt gun. The bigger dewalt gun is 800nm but it weighs a ton and you would snap smaller stuff like exhaust manifold studs etc (also you wont get it in a tight space) Its also less than half the weight of the sealey gun just 1.7kg Its priced at £179.98 (with 2 Li-Ion batterys) but if you wait for a Vat free day you'll get 10% off it. Just sign up for the account and they send you Vat free offers all the time and a catalogue    |
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Last Edit: Jan 19, 2016 21:06:59 GMT by haggis
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Jan 19, 2016 21:10:06 GMT
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haggis
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Jan 19, 2016 21:38:26 GMT
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well there ya go! Thats handy!  |
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Jan 19, 2016 21:53:00 GMT
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I've seen the pre-production version of that and the drill while they were being tested out and was really quite impressed, they certainly didn't feel budget, to be honest they seemed equivalent or better than Dewalt. They were reported as certainly being upto most things that you would use an air wrench for. The person behind them is involved in Motorsport and got sick of lesser quality stuff so has started their own brand. |
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haggis
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Jan 19, 2016 22:14:31 GMT
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Thats exactly what i was told dodge. I interrogated the poor machine mart guys about the gun. The dewalt dealer didnt believe me about the torque of the gun until i showed him the website. He then told me to buy it!
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I've run a Sealey CP2450 gun for the last 5 years in my workshop with regular use on all sorts of things. It has a massive 410ft/lbs (550Nm) of torque. Whips off wheel nuts with ease, also does driveshaft nuts and even crank pulley bolts (which surprised me first time i tried on a discovery)
It did almost everything i tried it on, only time it failed to undo something the bolt was so tight i ended up using a 6ft bar and me bouncing on the end of it to crack it!
Its only a ni-cad battery so it does best if its used/charged fairly often and occasionally fully flattened before a long trickle charge. The newer Li-Ion batteries in guns don't have that issue and can be left charged for months without issue. After 5 years its still going but has lost a bit of its ooomph i recent times.
I've just bought the CP2400(325lb/ft 441NM) as a replacement as i don't need the big torque rating as much anymore. The old one will still get used, but prob left in the car for jobs if i'm out and about.
I've also got a smaller Makita 10.8v impact which is only 110nm but tiny and great for undoing multiple small bolts like rocker covers, timing covers, and the like. Really speeds up jobs i find
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g40jon
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Jan 20, 2016 10:07:53 GMT
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This thread again?
I had a 24V machine mart impact wrench and quite frankly it was utter poo! It wouldn't even undo the wheel nuts on my mx5...
I went for a s/h snap on jobby from eBay and that does pretty much everything I ask of it. Wasn't much more than the MM one either.
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Jan 20, 2016 13:34:46 GMT
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thanks for all the replies but keep them coming if you have anything to add
the Kielder one looks good and the ebay link I posted is their own ebay sales, its the same price as on their own website and all the address etc match up - they are based in sheffield, its keen price and the spec looks good especially the batteries and torque so I might save up a bit more and get one of those.
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Jan 20, 2016 14:29:51 GMT
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Check the reviews... All seems good until you see this...
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alecf
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Jan 20, 2016 15:15:18 GMT
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Check out the milwaukee video after. Says it all really.
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taurus
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Jan 20, 2016 18:21:27 GMT
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There is a guy who reviewed one under it's Canadian (I think) listing - it's the same wrench as the 400Nm UK R18IW3 - |
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Jan 20, 2016 19:07:26 GMT
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Check the reviews... All seems good until you see this... I don't believe that video , 110nm or whatever is quite tight and they were clearly not that done up when he went to undo them . I would take that with a pinch of salt , how do you know he is not trying to rubbish the brand for some reason . If ist the case then there is clearly something defective with it. |
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froggy
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Jan 20, 2016 20:00:49 GMT
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The Milwaukee fuel 3/8 drive gun will undo the wheels on my car torqued to 80ft lb which is pretty impressive .
Can't fault my snap on 1/2 but it gets worked hard and batteries get cycled daily where a more modern lithium battery gun might be better for occasional use
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Jan 20, 2016 20:51:04 GMT
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Jan 20, 2016 21:07:39 GMT
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Check the reviews... All seems good until you see this... Personally I would say there was something wrong there, the one I saw being abused tested was being used for wheel changes on a rally car and wasn't struggling Edit, have a look on youtube and read the comments, they need a good period to bed in up apparently before being able to put out the full torque |
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Last Edit: Jan 20, 2016 21:12:47 GMT by dodgerover: Looked at the comments on the video - gives a rather different story
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Jan 20, 2016 21:33:04 GMT
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Hmmm I just bought a second hand dewalt off ebay, currently awaiting its arrival so have no first hand review yet. Its my first impact driver so fingers crossed!? Aldi did a set of driver and drill for £100, astoundingly cheap!
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