An impact screwdriver. Not often used, but when needed, indispensible. I
have a basically new one in my toolbox -- one of those things I saw in a
hardware store one day and said "I'll bet that will be useful sometime".
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary McCormick" <gkmcc@sbcglobal.net>
To: <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>; <ljordan704@netscape.net>
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 2:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Roadsters] impact wrench / torque wrench
> Those are usually for screws and small fasteners - at least, that's the
> size I've seen and used in the past. Great for getting those stubborn
> Phillips head sidecase screws off of a motorcycle engine before you
> replace them with hex socket head capscrews!
>
> http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000723.php
>
> Gary McCormick
> San Jose, CA
>
> --- On Mon, 3/23/09, ljordan704@netscape.net <ljordan704@netscape.net>
> wrote:
> From: ljordan704@netscape.net <ljordan704@netscape.net>
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] impact wrench / torque wrench
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 12:41 PM
>
> I was thinking of the impact wrench that you hit with a hammer, no
> compressor
> needed. Is that the correct name for the tool?
>
> Linda
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: hallosb@juno.com <hallosb@juno.com>
> To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
> Sent: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:19 pm
> Subject: Re: [Roadsters] impact wrench / torque wrench
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> Impact wrenches work great but, not everyone has an air compressor and
> some
> bolts are inaccessible. The original post was dead on. Use a breaker bar.
> You
> can ruin a good torque wrench or racheting socket wrench trying to loosen
> stubborn bolts. It's really hard on the racheting mechanism.
> And when the breaker bar can't do the job on its own... Resort to the
> simple
> laws of physics and increase your moment arm by sliding a section of pipe
> around your breaker bar.
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