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Jan 21, 2016 11:07:56 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. This was exactly how the machine mart one was - too weak to even crack a wheel nut even on a fresh battery!
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froggy
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Jan 21, 2016 18:31:22 GMT
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If your earning a living a good 1/2 gun is a must but for home use I can't see what you can't undo with a 3/4 knuckle bar and quality 3/4 -1/2 adapter , a 3/8 small lithium gun will speed up 90% of jobs and I use a little 1/4 adapter to whizz small stuff off
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Jan 22, 2016 13:12:41 GMT
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alecf
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Jan 22, 2016 15:03:24 GMT
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I've got the milwaukee version of this its a great bit of kit for the smaller jobs But like to you said won't do wheel bolts
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Jan 22, 2016 16:44:32 GMT
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I've got the same makita one. I just bought it as a bare body as i already had the drill/driver kit with the same size battery. All 3 get used on cars and are great due to their weight and small size, you canget them in all sorts of places.
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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. This was exactly how the machine mart one was - too weak to even crack a wheel nut even on a fresh battery! Click on the You Tube icon to see the vid on the site and read the comments, this was from the guy who posted the video originally: Machine Mart are having a VAT Free on Clarke and 10% off everything else weekend so check your email gangsters - I'm very tempted to pick one of these up.
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Jan 23, 2016 23:06:32 GMT
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I have a Kielder impact gun and their cordless drill, and both are excellent. Superb tools. They are only on their second charge, but I have notice an improvement.
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I need your help to get back to the year 1985.
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elfman
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I also have the Clarke ( Machine Mart ) impact gun, works well but make sure you use it often and keep the batteries topped up as one of mine has stopped working. Still good value for what I need.
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Jan 24, 2016 21:45:52 GMT
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If your earning a living a good 1/2 gun is a must but for home use I can't see what you can't undo with a 3/4 knuckle bar and quality 3/4 -1/2 adapter , a 3/8 small lithium gun will speed up 90% of jobs and I use a little 1/4 adapter to whizz small stuff off An impact wrench will shock a fitting loose that a breaker bar will simply snap. It's not just about applying torque.
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Jan 25, 2016 14:06:27 GMT
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Noted but before fancy electric guns people managed with bars at home . Point being a 3/8 gun is going to be more useful in speeding up jobs than a 1/2 which is really only going to go wheel nuts , hub nuts and the odd crank pulley bolt if you can get in at it which for a lot of older rwd retros isn't always possible
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Jan 25, 2016 22:21:58 GMT
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a 3/8 gun is going to be more useful in speeding up jobs than a 1/2 Just curious really, why is a 3/8 better thatn a 1/2 for those jobs?
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Jan 25, 2016 22:34:00 GMT
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As I said the really tight stuff is wheel nuts , hub nuts and crank pulleys . Quality 1/2 guns are £400 where a 3/8 Milwaukee is £180 with a spare battery . My wheel nuts are torqued to 80ft lb and the 3/8 gun will get them off with an impact socket and it's small and light enough to spin off most stuff . My track car is mid engined and it gets in to rattle all the bellhousing bolts out where the 1/2 wouldn't get in ,
A 1/2 will obviously do stuff the 3/8 won't but the 3/8 is more useful overall for home use
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How does the Kielder mentioned above compare to your 3/8?
It looks compact, 1/2" and powerful?
It looks like a good all-rounder
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id say don't bother for a home user
i had a sealy one , cost several hundreds a few years back , as others say it couldnt be relied on to do wheel nuts , and too big /fierce for smaller stuff
now the batterys have died so it must have cost me several £pounds for each bolt /nut that it took off and saved me a few mins
if you have to get one then milwakee or snap on and then youre sure it will do its job , but for the average home user whats the point when you take a wheel off once in a while , takes no time with a breaker so spend the ££ on good hand tools
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budget cordless impact wrenchheathrobinson
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Jan 26, 2016 11:34:19 GMT
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If you've already got a compressor, stick with an air gun. I know it's limited to the length of the hose, but my blue point was 2nd hand, near perfect nick, and a good 100lb/ft more powerful than anything mentioned so far. And £50. Save your money for something more useful. Or shiny. Shiny's good too.
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Jan 26, 2016 11:56:25 GMT
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We've gone over to lithium battery snap on 1/2 at work and they do the job but the old one I use at home has killed one of the batteries through lack of use . I have a decent compressor at home and the Chicago pneumatic 1/2 air rattler does the big stuff pretty well
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Jan 26, 2016 15:49:56 GMT
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I took a chance and bought the two battery kielder gun, I thought I can at least try it and if its no good I would just send it back
it arrived today, and I impressed with it, without it being "run in" it undone the wheel nuts on my ZR without effort
its smaller than I imagined it to be, and its not heavy at all.
the case has metal fixings, the manual comes in a nice sleeve and there is even a sticker pack and a car air freshener in with it.
I think I will be undoing and retightening wheel nuts willy-nilly for a while to see how it goes!
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I have this one www.machinemart.co.uk/p/streetwize-12v-impact-wrench/Works great and did a spot on job of removing the wheelnuts on my lasses e36 which were on very tight. Bit of a funny story when I bought this......I went into machinemart and told the fella I wanted an impact gun, I said I wanted the £40 one, as although it was more money than the basic Clarke one, it had a higher torque rating. The fella got it down and asked what I was planing to use it for, I said removing car wheel nuts. He said, no it won't be suitable for doing that, they have way more torque than this gun can undo. I pointed to the packaging on it, and there was a photo of a man using the gun to undo some wheel nuts!
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an update I have used my kielder gun quite a few times recently and as yet I have not even had to charge any of the batteries, it has got better with use although it did wheel nuts right away
its really compact and light to use
I am happy with the tool and I would recommend it to others.
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