Nut busting
The memes on that group have gotten pretty tiring, and mostly bad now.
But this one made me laugh. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f9c9ea9455.jpg |
The memes on that group have gotten pretty tiring, and mostly bad now.
But this one made me laugh. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/201...f9c9ea9455.jpg |
The answer is always Milwaukee.
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That the baby Milwaukee 1/2". The mid-torque model I bought last year has 450 ft-lbs fastening torque.
It is fucking awesome and I highly recommend buying one (when it's on sale). |
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I'm too invested into Makita's 18V system. But I have Milwaukee's 12V system. |
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OTOH, use a powerful drill with a right-angle adapter and watch out. :eek: |
I use the full torque Dewalt, which is 700ft-lbs. sustained, 1,200ft-lbs. breakaway. It’s also pretty great for large scale things. I use a low power 3/8” dewalt impact for most small stuff. (It’s compact and light, but is just on the edge of powerful enough for wheels - 99% of the time, it’ll break wheel lugs that have been torqued properly.)
I do, however, use the 12v Makita ratcheting wrench. It’s life changing. Do NOT buy the “upgraded” fuel version. The massive weight and size and marginal increase in torque are 1,000% not worth it. Edit: While we are talking about useful tools, these Sunex u-joints are also life changing: https://www.amazon.com/Sunex-2300-Un.../dp/B000LQEV9Y |
Electric ratchets are the best. THE BEST.
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I also bought this impact driver and it's GREAT. Light, super fast, and surprisingly powerful. Way more fun for everything that doesn't require big breaking torque. It's strong enough to do wheel bolts, even though I tend not to use it for that. https://www.milwaukeetool.com/Produc...rivers/2853-20 |
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I've used it A LOT all these years and it's still great. |
The big repeated use for me is wheel changes and the 140 ft-lbs spec for the Camaro required something more powerful than the really, really, really old Goodyear thing I'd been using for 10+ years that, with a full charge, could usually bust 3 of 5 nuts off the first wheel.
The Milwaukee mid-torque has 3 power settings. The lowest almost feels broken. I use the middle to spin lug nuts on, but it's sometimes not quite enough to bust them off, so full power for that (600 ft-lbs, I think). Ratchets are on my list. Just haven't run across a sale that quite gets them to the price point I want yet. |
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https://milwaukeetool.com/Products/P...enches/2668-20 And it's a huge disappointment. The torque is terrible. It's also one of the few milwaukee tools that gets a lot of bad reviews. The impact driver I linked above is my goto instead. It's fantastic. Fast and powerful. The only down side is it doesn't fit into tight spaces as well as a wrench. But it's still way, way smaller than a big impact gun. |
damn, an electric ratchet would have come in handy putting together that tool cart
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Edit: I bet that M18 one gets lots of bad reviews because it’s too much of a compromise. Too big and heavy to use, but to compromised to have any power. You need the little M12 one that does 35 ft-lbs. This is the one that I use. It’s fucking fantastic and it does things that no impact would ever do for me. https://www.amazon.com/Milwaukee-245.../dp/B006GKFWSS |
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This is my go to general purpose impact: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...?ie=UTF8&psc=1 I usually use it with the 1.5A batteries, because they are plenty powerful and make it very handy. |
What Nick said. The Milwaukee M12 ratchet is awesome for my purposes. I can put it on a fastener, break it loose by using the tool as a ratchet / breaker bar, and then spin it off using the motor. It's just great.
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The smaller one gets good reviews because because it has the option to lock it out so you can break it free manually and then use the power to spin it.
The one I linked doesn't. You need to use a wrench to break it, then switch the socket to the electric wrench. |
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I have a monster DeWalt for lugnuts, but it's not much use for anything else. |
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My ancient, second-hand Matco 18V has no problem with the Ram's lug nuts at 140ft-lbs. It also managed both RX-8 axle nuts which are at 220ft-lbs, and they're also staked.
It's got one dying cell in the battery that I occasionally have to jumpstart back to life. I really need to replace it. |
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I have an air ratchet. I've had it for almost twenty years.
I used it once. |
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https://www.amazon.com/Makita-XWT08Z...4373653&sr=8-4 BL Motor delivers 740 feet pounds of Max Torque and 1,180 feet pounds of breakaway torque |
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More recently, I bought a Milwaukee M12 air compressor (which, by the way, is also quite awesome) and it came with two M12 (dunno if they're Fuel) batteries and a charger. Two different batteries and two different chargers, right? No! Wrong! The charger that came with the impact does both M18s and M12s. So, that's cool. |
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Man I wish I could get my money back for that big POS one though. Josh should correct his statement above: "The answer is almost always Milwaukee" |
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