Thread: Cordless Impact Wrench? what to get?

Hi Guys.
I have been saving my pennies and collect my new toys on saturday morning.
Ended up buying 18V Bosch gear.
Got the top spec cordless hammer drill with 3x3ah batteries and carry case as a kit and the 650nm rattlegun as a skin.
Sydney tools were the cheapest on the net,Toolmart at Kelmscott matched them.Simon there is a great bloke to deal with,visited 3 Toolmart stores and will NEVER visit the other 2 again
Picking them up saturday morning
Grader blades will JUST last to friday if Im gentle will let you know how the rattlegun performs.
Andrew

Sounds like some good kit there. Can we have some pics when you get it?

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

Sounds like some good kit there. Can we have some pics when you get it?

Great idea for a tech tool thread

FWIW - I'm another one using a Snap-On... Cracking bit of kit.

M

Originally Posted by Mr Whippy

Sounds like some good kit there. Can we have some pics when you get it?

Will do.Andrew

Had 3 x Bosch units in the workshop they all failed

I picked my rattlegun up yesterday.
Had a little play with it to see how it went.
With the factory charge,2/3rds according to the leds,it blitzed the grader blade bolts,even ones that had never been undone.
Then I grabed the wheel bolt socket and had a go,rattle,rattle,rattle and bingo did it and wasnt loosing any punch
Tommorow Im swapping cutting edges so I will get some pics.
Andrew

FWIW:

the likes of Makita, Hitachi, dewalt, milwaukee, and bosch are all pretty on par. Makita use to do gearboxes on the cordless pretty commonly. If you are comparing brands, make sure you are comparing brush or brushless and amp hr..

Panasonic has been brushless for years.

Snap-on and others may get stuff made for them

There are only a few, I mean litterally a few battery cell manufactures world wide, panasonic is one of them. Hiltl has contracted them to partner their new tools of late...very nice 22v gear, $$$ but you get good gear and hilti's customer service.


I have run and abused Bosch, hitachi, panasonic and hilti. Mates have done same with Makita, dewalt etc

I generally put to high use cordless: drills, impact drivers and resiprocating saws. (read every day) second to that is impact wrench and my 36v Hilti concrete drill.

I feel my hitachi gear to be 15% better than my bosch gear (note: bosch and hitachi are now next gen.)

all in all, batteries seem to die before the tool. I recommend reading the manufactures instruction regarding charging/use etc of battery and follow it carefully

BTW, AEG is now owned by Milwaukee, it is now a home owner range....shame, back in the day AEG was full industrial.