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Fri 11 Sep 2020 02:34
Any - Light Duty Impact Wrench - edlithgow

Thinking of getting one of these since I’m having trouble getting the pulley of my alternator, and I don’t have a vice.

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(Apologies for the Chinese, though Chinese isn't really my fault.)

As long as it isn’t complete junk. a cheap light duty impact wrench that runs off a car battery makes sense for very infrequent DIY use, though it makes no commercial sense if its only available in Taiwan, where the market for such a thing will be tiny.

Someone on the local expat forum bought one for a job on his scooter, which it did, but havn't heard anything more.

What's available on the UK market?

Recommendations?

Edited by edlithgow on 11/09/2020 at 02:38

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Fri 11 Sep 2020 06:08
Any - Light Duty Impact Wrench - Bolt

there are a lot on Amazon so you would need to look and see what you want, if they are as good as impact screwdrivers then yes they are good, I have one and not broken a screw head yet even those that seem impossible to undo come out without a problem

I had Halfords come to me to change all 4 tyres on my Civic, they used a battery Makita and it worked as well as air gun, some are very quiet as well ie almost silent

ps if you use google it has a translator, I used it to translate the Chinese, also works for other languages and very well. https://translate.google.co.uk/

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Fri 11 Sep 2020 07:48
Any - Light Duty Impact Wrench - edlithgow

Thanks.

I put it through Google Translate, but (unsurprisingly) bits of it remain rather obscure. For example

It seems possible the cheaper of the two models has to be used with specific torque sticks for specific jobs.

This may be what the Google translate jive below is about

" Taiwan bell car series 34 sleeve 140 yuan

Gwangyang Sanyang cars (below 151c.c) No. 39 sleeve 170 yuan

Trefoil series (below 124c.c) No. 41 long sleeve 200 yuan

Trefoil series (above 124c.c) No. 46 sleeve 230 yuan"

Not much chance that any bilinguals I know will be able to interpret that, though, since they wont have any understanding of the technology.

A Makita would be nice, but a bit OTT for my needs.

A knockoff Makita could be OK (See Project Farm test video) but hard to know what you are getting, and those are 18V

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pXM5bHSk2Y

I like the idea of 12V.. I got a cheapo 12V rechargeable drill in the UK many years ago on the basis that if the battery died I could hook it up to the starter battery. Battery did indeed die during the first job, but I never got around to making an adapter for it.

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Fri 11 Sep 2020 09:29
Any - Light Duty Impact Wrench - Bolt

According to google translate it has reversible 19mm 17mm sockets, ie, take it off turn it round which is standard on a lot of cars, it comes with 3 double sockets and a 12v auxillary plug if it goes flat, I couldn't make out length but cable will reach all 4 wheels

Torque is variable same as a drill

Edited by bolt on 11/09/2020 at 09:31

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Fri 11 Sep 2020 09:33
Any - Light Duty Impact Wrench - Bolt

sleeves you were referring to is their way of saying tubular sockets according to advert reversible as my last post mentioned hth

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