Thread: Air impact wrenches

What kind of impact wrenchs does everyone on here have, just got me one of these yesterday

wondering if anyone else has one and what they think of it

I have a Blue-Point air impact wrench and its awesome!

Cant beat my snap-on battery powered one though, that thing is awesome, when im done with it at work i throw it in the car and use it at home!

cant get the picture to show, heres a link to it anyway
Sulco : 419C503 : 1/2"1000FTLB IMP WRENCH PIN CLUTCH

This is what I have at work, love it! light and powerful!

Mate has one like yours, it's good for that price

Originally Posted by b16aTeg

cant get the picture to show, heres a link to it anyway

becasue you did it wrong

here have a read of this:
http://nzhondas.com/forum-help-feedb...ndasdtcom.html

sweet, got it sussed now thanks

i got 1/2" MG725, awesome and grunty.
and 3/8" MG325, small and strong enough for most tasks.
also had a 1/2 Ingersoll rand impact, which was pretty good.

Sorry to bring this back up but its along the same lines

Im looking for a 18V cordless impact driver/wrench, want something that will be good on the car and able to undo pretty much everything ie axle nuts. anyone use one of this and can recommend me one?

The Milwaukee ones I've heard good things about.

Originally Posted by Horny_Devil

Sorry to bring this back up but its along the same lines

Im looking for a 18V cordless impact driver/wrench, want something that will be good on the car and able to undo pretty much everything ie axle nuts. anyone use one of this and can recommend me one?

You'll struggle to find a decent 18V that will take off axle nuts. Half the middle range air powered ones I've used wont even look at one.

If you want good gear for this you've gotta be prepared to drop some serious coin like it appears a few members above have^^ .

Originally Posted by Esprit

The Milwaukee ones I've heard good things about.

Boom. Milwaukee M18 2662 Impact Wrench (Bare Tool) | Trade Me No idea how they can get 610Nm out of one, it must run out of puff pretty quickly at that level.

Although I have seen a (well-rated) tool shop on Trademe suggesting Milwaukee aren't as reliable as DeWalt and Makita. And this is a shop that sells Milwaukee themselves.

milwakee make pretty good tools from what ive seen unsure about their air tool range though, been asking the plumbers on site how they go and have had a geez at the 28v battery skill-saw for example, good bit of kit imo.
if you want proper tools to get the big stuff off, snap-on or sp, makita if you want something a bit cheaper... air force use sp and my brother raves about them... big coin though $$$

Dont forget to mate your air compressor and wrench a tiny 2hp aint gonna spin shit! lol

you need a 2.5hp direct drive at the least for wheel nuts, but compare the cfm aswel.

Originally Posted by Horny_Devil

Sorry to bring this back up but its along the same lines

Im looking for a 18V cordless impact driver/wrench, want something that will be good on the car and able to undo pretty much everything ie axle nuts. anyone use one of this and can recommend me one?

I have used a few, including the Ramset, De-Walt, Hitachi, Jonnesway, Repco and Snap-on guns.
The Snap-On outclassed them all so i ended up buying one. Not cheap, but very very worth it. I use it all day every day and its brilliant.

I beleive it is 450 ft-pounds (610nm) working torque and 650 ft-pounds break-away torque

I also reccomend getting one with 2 batteries instead of 1, I chose the ni-cad option as it came with 2 batteries instead of 1 li-ion battery, i cant really afford to have any down-time where i cant use it. It has the same power as the Li-ion guns too, just 0.5 less amp hours per battery.

EDIT: Sorry its 620 break away, 840nm Link below

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....re&dir=catalog

Originally Posted by tysonzane

You'll struggle to find a decent 18V that will take off axle nuts. Half the middle range air powered ones I've used wont even look at one.

If you want good gear for this you've gotta be prepared to drop some serious coin like it appears a few members above have^^ .

Havnt meet an axle nut yet that my 18v snap-on gun cant remove, including commercial vehicles like transits etc