Wildefalcon
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Your Milwaukee is vicious, if I was doing this for a living I'd not hesitate, but I'm tinkering for fun, so I can live with the cheap one. I saved my pennies to buy a 4.6 V8....
I have 3 guns a 18v Makita 285Z a Lidl or Aldi air and a Lidl or Aldi 240v mains gun but have been disappointing with them all, you are lucky if they manage to undo car wheel nuts.
Thanks I will give that a try.I was quite disappointed with the Makita 285 too. Tested it with an ACTA system and it would only reach 100-120Nm. Had a call from Makita so brought this up and he said let it run longer. Ran it about 30-40 sec and then it started to sound different and I could see the wheel nut come loose. After that it has loosened wheel nuts in about 10 sec.
You may laugh but I was breaking up a P38 and my big M18 took a little while to undo an M24 bolt that eventually sheared. Second one 10 minutes later same thing. Then I noticed I was doing them up
Served the purpose though
Do you already have any cordless kit? Because buying a bare unit might make it a little less expensive. Also second hand can provide good offerings.
I bought a second hand Dewalt impact gun for less than £100 and it will undo wheel nuts absolutely fine. I already had batteries so didn’t work out that expensive. Well worth it. Makes jobs so much quicker, did two sets of suspension arms in my car in a smidge over 2 hours. Didn’t have to wrestle with seized bolts.
I have the Clarke corded impact and it won't take wheel nuts off. Also recently bought that cheap Makita knock off that is doing the rounds on Ebay for about 25 quid. I already had the batteries and the charger. It wont take wheel nuts off either!
I think my Clarke is the same. It wouldn't shift the rear hub nut on a Ford Focus either. They have a stupidly high torque setting though. I also managed to shear off a cheap half inch extension trying to shift it by hand.