>From: Matt Murray <mattm@optonline.net>
>
>Several posts from 2000. Most of it is still relevant. I bought
>the Makita 24 volt. You can use "Torque sticks" that might give
>you a max torque setting. I haven't tried one yet.
I used a torque stick for a while with my 12V Snap-On gun. Worked fairly
well in keeping me from overtightening the lugs - after using that, I'd use
a torque wrench to do the final tightening. After a while, though, I
became good enough at using the gun that I no longer needed to use the
torque stick. One braaap of the gun, and I was about a quarter turn with
the torque wrench away from the proper torque.
BTW, some people that I trust have told me that it's possible to use a
14.4V battery with the 12V Snap-On gun, just by trimming a little
plastic. Since the guts of the gun are supposedly the same between the 12V
and 14.4V versions, the life of the gun shouldn't be shortened any by this
modification. Of course, if you try this, you do so at your own risk,
yadda, yadda, yadda. I know when my batteries finally wear out, I'm going
to replace them with the 14.4V ones, which should give me a little more
power and more run time on a charge.
For those on a budget, I noticed that Harbor Freight offers a "Chicago
Electric" 19.2V cordless impact gun for $149. I have no idea how well made
this one is, how well it works, or anything else beyond the blurb Harbor
Freight has on their web site. A friend of mine just picked one up - I'll
probably get to see it at this Sunday's autox. I also heard that Harbor
Freight had this wrench on sale the day after Thanksgiving for something
like a hundred bucks....
Hope this helps,
Jim Ochi
jim_ochi@yahoo.com
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