We've been using impact wrenches at the plant forever. Yeah, they can die. Every 250 pianos or so. Better ones are worth rebuilding, cheap ones.... well... hard to say. Doesn't hurt as bad when you see a cheap one dropped or flooded (on one of the half dozen days when there's condensation in the lines). Biggest problem is the stinkin' sockets. Our guys kept welding and modifying, etc., to make them last. Then we figured out it was easier to just keep a few extra around for when they die. Six bucks for 7000 pins removed ain't so bad. In my life before the plant, my dad and I burned up a few nice 1/2 inch electric drills, and I learned to hate speed wrenches. Never forget that old Skill drill he had, with the all-metal casing and the nasty short.... Go impact. Wear hearing and eye protection. Don't use remaining fingers to grab loose wires, Guy At 02:16 PM 9/5/2005 -0500, you wrote: >>Seriously, I always considered an Impact Wrench/Drill a bit over-kill. >>Yes it has torque! (Just try to take your snow tires off after the tire >>shop did the Impact thingee on them!<G> Do you use one for things in the shop? >>Regards, >>Joe Garrett, R.P.T. > >I've tried about everything I could think of at one time or another. >Usually, it's my 1/2" Holeshooter, but that's heavy and strugglesome on >those days when I'm old and tired, which is any day with a vowel in >it. I've done a couple in the last two years with an electric impact >wrench, and I kind of like it. Next one, I'll borrow my son's pneumatic >and give that a try. Actually, they don't have all that much torque. It's >the impact that hammers those lug nuts down to the equivalent of forge >welding, not the torque. Pulling pins with one, it starts kind of slow (if >the pins are tight), then really whirls them out of there once it has the >pin moving. Borrow one and give it a try. Let me know what you think. > >Ron N >_______________________________________________ >pianotech list info: https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives >
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