top drive

top drive

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My 90 giving me gyp with rusty boltage doing more breaking ( my back that is ) than i am removing.

Are the clarke 240v impact drivers any cop , have air impact drivers at work and they are wicked but we have industrial compressors plumbed into the buildings infrastructure.

Unfortunantly i cannot justify a compressor at home right now and i live in the north east o scotland where nothing i want ever comes up for sale locally .... Traveling 3 hours tomorrow to pick up a truck cab and canopy ! First one ive seen for sale in scotland never mind the north east.

Would this be a suitable alternative for the mean time ? My dads 18volt battery dewalt impact driver was great but it cost about the same as a decent volume compressor set up - 400 quid

New Clarke CEW1000 Electric Impact Wrench 240v: Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools
 
reviews are good and it is 50% more powerful than a standard air impact. Not recommended for doing up nuts as it is too aggressive. Also quite bulky. Looks fair value to me and MM have VAT free offer on clarke products till Monday 11th making it better value still.
 
I have one and they are powerfull, dont do any bolts up fully with it always finish with spanner. mine fecked two wheel locking nut sockets. great for undoing bastid nuts.
 
excellent - i have a 90 full of bastid nuts :D

unfortunantly i cannot get it till april the 20th , i was asked what i wanted for my birthday and this is the answer i think - of course ill need a set of impact driver sockets too ;)
 
The Snap-on one comes with the sockets and a pretty little bag, but what a price, mind you if you can't undo it with that little beasty you can always go the other way and shear it off:rolleyes:pays for itself with half a dozen Tesco cats
 
As everbody has said, good for undoing but Don't use it to do up. I use it for doing up wheel nuts but only one flick of the trigger, even then you can't do them up tighter with a breaker bar. So you have been warned.
 
Another vote from me as well. Undid flywheel bolts easily that had broken my longest breaker bar.
No where near the top quality but I think it will last if lightly used. Mine came with some spare brushes that haven't been needed yet.
 
top drive said:
excellent - i have a 90 full of bastid nuts :D

unfortunantly i cannot get it till april the 20th , i was asked what i wanted for my birthday and this is the answer i think - of course ill need a set of impact driver sockets too ;)
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ask your parents or whoever to buy it for you now and save a few pounds.;)
 
SpringDon said:
....Undid flywheel bolts easily that had broken my longest breaker bar.
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They must have some torque!

I was up the workshop a while back when we had to dig out 'the beast' - a mahooosive air gun the size of a dinner plate, and crank the compressor way up to attack a very tight VW hub nut (c70mm long threads), but to our amazement it didn't touch it!

Out came the big bar and with the wheels on the ground and someone on the foot break she came undone.

Was the bar a cheap-ish one?

Tom
 
110widebody said:
They must have some torque!

Was the bar a cheap-ish one?

Tom
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Halfords professional, so not the best but not car boot level either. ( maybe broke was an overstatement , it didn't actually snap but the end sprung/distorted so it was no good)

What amazed me (I don't get out much) about the gun is that it undid the bolts when I was just trying it out and hadn't locked the flywheel.
 
I have an air one and the 240v one you are thinking about,

The diffrence in power is massive, if its tight the air one you can hold in one hand the electric one needs 2 hands, but I've still had to crack out a Breaker bar a few times
 
machine mart - even minus vat are not the cheapest source for the clarke impact driver.

so the air has more "impact/vibration" and the electric has more torque as oppose impact ?

my breaker bar is draper professional and its seen ALOT of use but its kinda hard to use under the landy - will be easier shortly when its just a chassis though- maybe then i can get the 36" stilson- nothing defeats that - and if it does and its not been bucked up in the bucking unit ( i normally deal with torques in the region of 5-30,000 ft lbs ) then its probably galled
 
I've just had one delivered today brought it off eBay think it was £59. I'll let u know how I get on with it tomorrow. I see what people say about tightening thou it doesn't seam to have a variable trigger it seems to be on or off. Looks alright thou for the money
 
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