In your opinion, what’s a good all around impact I should get?The biggest thing I’d probably be doing is occasionally taking off my car tires to wash the rims. Other than that, small stuff. For example my latest project is taking apart and fixing my weedeater.
>>2998884You dont need an impact, you are consooming to consoom. Use that same money to build an actual project, not buy tools that sit around so you can use them twice a year.
>>2998889>just walk uphill both ways with your tire iron you ungrateful little whippersnappert. on the 9th day god made the impact for his childrens convenience
>>2998891Tool collectors are faggots
>>2998892>t. salty he doesnt have drawers of nos spares of everything x3
>>2998893I have drawers full of machine tooling, why would I want to have a bunch of redundant socket sets? Thats for tool collectors who quite literally cannot build things even if they tried.
>>2998894>it thinks the knuckle dragging wrench benders redundancy is limited to sockets
>>2998884if youre the anon from the other thread with m12 batteries already just get the one for that with the 5ho battery. i prefer 3/8 for misc use but you might want 1/2 if you plan to do suspension work on the car
>>2998889>You dont need an impact, you are consooming to consoom.I don’t even own a drill, dude.
>>2998884>The biggest thing I’d probably be doing is occasionally taking off my car tires to wash the rims.Ok so just get a tire iron
>>2998898I want a power tool for the smaller stuff too anon. Like drilling wood and taking apart small engines.
>>2998899get a cordless drill and 1/4 hex impact kit which will do 80% of things around the housethen get a 1/2" airgun like picel for lugnuts and such which are cheap nowdays
>>2998901Based. Do you have any reccomdations on brand or are they pretty much all the same?Only ones I’ve really used are craftsman and dewalt in high school.
>>2998896> if youre the anon from the other thread with m12 batteries already just get the one for that with the 5ho battery. He is not. I however am. But since this thread fits my issue, I shall enter it. Looking the torque ratings, I’d need a bit more than the lowest (my car ist at 120Nm, so I potentially need quite a bit more to loosen it, plus if I eventually get a van, they’re often in the 200Nm range) and it seems like M12 then gets significantly more expensive than Metabo. And unlike my normal, small drill, an impact wouldn’t be a tool I’ve got constantly on my belt, moving about. The question now is just, which Metabo one to get?LTX BL, just because of reasons, but 300, 550 or 800? Prices are surprisingly close.
>>2998950Just loosen them with a bar. Most of the time consumption is loosening after.
>>2998950https://www.youtube.com/@TorqueTestChannel/search?query=metabo
>>2998884Taking tires off and working on a weed eater are two completely opposite ends of the spectrum of an impact. You'd probably want a mid torque 1/2" or high torque 3/8 for the lug nuts and a 1/4" hex for the small stuff. If you are doing this rarely enough that you have to ask then I'd recommend just getting some hyper tough tools from walmart. Even the older gen stuff would probably be fine for your needs and should be cheaper since they just came out with some new gen stuff.
>>2998903get whenever brand has the widest spread of tools because youll realize soon after you want a hackzall and an angle grinder and you dont want to be stuck with some lame ass shit because youre locked in to those batteries
>>2998901>1/2” air gun>cheap>need to buy a big compressor to run it properly>still limited by the length of the hoseNobody uses air impacts anymore unless they’re working in a tire shop>>2999017This sort of.I’m here to tell OP the correct answer: get a brushless mid torque 1/2” 18V/20V/24V from whatever brand makes tools in his favorite color, and then get a 1/4” impact driver in the matching color and get some socket adapters for the smaller stuff.
>>2998884My impact broke and now I just use a drill. Its easier than using 2 tools. (Drill and impact)
>>2999033>then get a 1/4” impact driver in the matching color and get some socket adapters for the smaller stuff.They make stuff smaller than 1/4th inch that needs an impact? Someone over-torqued the nuts on an ants motorcycle or something?
>>2999188Retarded
>>2999264y u daleet yo dick swinging competition pic cevin?
>>2999265
>>2999267
>>2999268Wide boy. I can’t wait to rattle my hand to death next time I have to pull 20+ big ass rusted bolts out with that thing.
>>2998889idk man it's nice having an impact specifically for shit like lugnuts and exhaust clamps and brake caliper bolts
>>2999318Wait until there’s stuff you sort of need an impact for. Things on the end of a rotating shaft where it’s difficult to brace whatever the shaft is spinning and a regular wrench will leave you struggling forever>tfw your boomer neighbors are struggling with an edger blade for 45min before you walk across the street with an impact and have it off in 5 seconds
>>2999318This, but unironically that faggot's point is still very true. You only need to do like two of those things a year lol
>>2998884>The biggest thing I’d probably be doing is occasionally taking off my car tires to wash the rims.any budget store brand corded impact wrench will meet your needs
>>2999493Rocker switches and extension cords suck tho
>>2998889You're supposed to gradually acquire tools over the course of your life until you have all the ones you need
>>2999188It's for taking apart your dash and such
>>2999623Also for removing dozens of 10mm fasteners which hold all of the brackets and bullshit in a modern engine bay to reach the part you actually need to replace. Oil changes even, lots of cars have like a dozen fuckin T-30 screws holding the splash guard in place before you can even get to the drain plug.
>>2999627Back in my day we just knocked a hole in the oil pan when we want to change the oil. Patch it with some lead and a blow torch. Of course, that was before oil filters were a thing and all of the oil was non-detergent. This fancy detergent oil they use today will probably give you dick cancer if you heat it up too much.
>>2999714jokes aside i have drilled more than 1 trans pan to dump the oil rather than taking a baththen just weld a 1/2 coupling on for a convenient drain the next service the trick is to not stab into the valve body or wires because that complicates shit exponentially
>>2999727I used to work on tracked vehicles in the Army. Think M113s, not Abrams. To change the oil on these you have to park them on a slight incline, crawl under the vehicle, remove an armored plate (which is held on by a ton of bolts), and remove the oil filter. Because these fuckers vibrate like OP's Mom's Hitachi on high, the filters are either already loose (you get an oil bath as soon as you loosen the plate) or so tight you have to hammer a screwdriver through them and then beat on that to get them to turn. You then empty out about half the oil they should have in them, because the driver can't be bothered to put down his favorite huffing solvents long enough to check the levels, and refill.The cool thing about them though, is when the driver disables the governor so they can keep up with the Abrams and the engine blows up, completely removing the thing is not that bad. You can swap engines is half a day if you are in a hurry and have a hoist.
