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Posted by Jim Yanik on May 10, 2007, 1:18 pm
> I wrote a post a few weeks ago, about getting a cordless impact
> wrench
> for my vehicles, as a back injury overseas, has made things difficult
> for me.
> I wound up with the dewalt 12v, 1/2 inch unit.
> I have had very positive results.
> The formerly useless rusted on lugs are finally free.
> I heavily sprayed once again some wrench brand penetrating fluid.
> I waited about ten minutes, and banged each lug a few times, and
> repeated the lubrication liquid again.
> I waited another five minutes and tried to free with a cross
> bar
> wrench, with a long section of pipe for leverage.
> No dice.
> I put a regular sized 21mm impact socket on the impact wrench and
> applie the trigger at first slowly. Nothing going on.
> I pressed the trigger down all the way, and applied a bit of
> forward
> pressure, and after about four or five seconds the lug zipped all the
> way out.
> Okay I said, lets see what happens.
> All the other lugs came out the same, with the exception of one
> lug. I
> changed to a deep socket and that did the trick.
> I cleaned off all the exposed metal, and using the wrench, gave a
> light
> tightening for a half second, and tighented to specs using a manual
> torque wrench.
> I am glad I got the wrench.
> I went to rotate the tires on my xterra(which I could do with a
> regular lug wrench), but using the impact, saved me a lot of wear and
> tear and time on my back, and was a joy to use.
> Net effect, I made a good decision and the tool, proved to get
> the job
> done.
> I leave the wrench in the trunk of the car, and will change
> the
> battery out every month.
>
> Much regards
>
>
>
With a 12V unit,I wonder if you could get or make an adapter to use the car
battery for power? (use a heavy 2 wire zip cord;14 or 12 ga.)
then you don't have to worry about charged battery packs.
BTW,hot environments discharge battery packs faster than normal.
Like the inside of a car on a sunny day easily gets to 140 degF.,NOT good
for your battery packs.
--
Jim Yanik
jyanik
at
kua.net
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