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Post by jimbouk on Aug 20, 2014 15:57:27 GMT -5
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Post by wrightwoodwork on Aug 20, 2014 16:31:09 GMT -5
No experience with them I did notice in an email I got that dewalt are also doing new 5 amp batteries. Personally I'm not a fan of dewalt
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Post by GhostFist on Aug 20, 2014 21:54:08 GMT -5
Doesn't look too bad i suppose. I'm partial to my festool cxs but I imagine it's a bit pricier
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Post by jimbouk on Aug 21, 2014 0:00:23 GMT -5
I am not buying dewalt for sure. I have been very dissapointed with the build quality in the past. I do have a cxs which is great as well as a dedicated cordless sds. Maybe its over kill but another driver and a small impact would be very usefull during assembly i think.
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Post by GhostFist on Aug 21, 2014 7:15:17 GMT -5
I'm just not sold on impact guns, especially the wee ones. I don't see the benefit considering the noise especially for cabinet hardware. Tiny cabinet screws aren't going to give you a lot of fight and personally I like feeling the torque on little screws like this so I get a sense of how much to tighten, and how the bit is engaging the screw head. Too often do I come across buried and stripped screws in material because people like using their bloody impact guns. Sorry they're a bit of a pet peeve of mine especially in the film industry. The saying "quiet on the set!" ring a bell?
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Post by MrToolJunkie on Aug 21, 2014 20:03:11 GMT -5
I think that Impacts have their place and I do like mine for some things, but a smaller drill is also a must-have. I like my Festool and Bosch drills and I have a Hilti, which I like, but it is bigger and heavy.
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Post by GhostFist on Aug 21, 2014 20:21:01 GMT -5
Here's a question for everyone. When is an impact driver needed?
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Post by 7 on Aug 21, 2014 21:45:35 GMT -5
I like them for screwing decking down to joists. I also use a simpson lag screw (1/4" x 5" length similar to timberlok) to attach ledgers to houses with no pre drilling needed. I also prefer them when attaching cabinets to stud walls with 3" standard screws and for attaching newel posts to floor joists with large screws.
The noise is annoying but I prefer it to the additional abuse on my wrist when trying to sink large lag type screws with a regular drill/driver. I also think they add a little bit of safety when anchoring from a ladder because it requires a little less pressure on the back of the drill.
I would like to try out a small cxs though for hinges etc etc.
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Post by Tom Gensmer on Aug 21, 2014 23:04:12 GMT -5
Here's a question for everyone. When is an impact driver needed? Much like 7 said, I prefer impact drivers for driver larger screws and lags. For building decks and additions I regularly drive lots of TimberLoks and LedgerLoks, and while my C15 certainly can drive them, the impact driver removes the strain from my wrist when driving those larger fasteners for extended periods. Impact drivers are also nice when you need to drive screws in awkward positions, for instance standing at the top of a 40' extension ladder, driving a screw 3' away from the ladder where you have almost no leverage on the driver or screw. Yeah, comes in handy in those situations! Finally, from a remodeler's point of view and experience, impact drivers can be handy for breaking loose old screws, for instance long hinge screws, without stripping the heads. These days, I'm back to using my Festool C15 as my daily driver, but happily bring out my Makita LXDT01 when I'll be driving a lot of larger screws. That Metabo kit looks nice. The 10.8v platform would be nice for all-day use, the only knock I've heard against them (the platform, not the Metabos specifically) is that they simply aren't as sturdily built as the 14v or 18v tools, and their life span can suffer a bit if you're using them to drill big holes and drive oversized fasteners.
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Post by MrToolJunkie on Sept 13, 2014 9:49:30 GMT -5
I like them for driving into CBU as well...really anything into studs...much fewer camouts and broken screws. I use a Hilti 14v and a Bosch 18v (the new brushless one) and they are both great.
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Post by wiz1258 on Oct 23, 2014 8:05:04 GMT -5
I like impact for tight quarters and big and bigger screws and lags. I'm looking at the Fein 4 speed brushless for closing and opening my lathe collect closer. I can open and close it hundreds of times a day. The torque settings are what I'm interested in. I would also like to try driving a screw at 3850 RPM and see what the torque limiter does. The other feature is the 3850 RPM, should be great for getting a no 36 drill starter hole into 1/4 in. wall steel tubing. I have an old Milwaukee corded screw gun that had a collar to set the screw heads flush. It wasn't wonderful.
I'd like to see a impact gun with a device and software that would start off fast and when close to the end slow down and perfectly set the head flush without tearing out the head.
Maybe I'll design one!
Mark
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Post by jalvis on Oct 23, 2014 10:18:26 GMT -5
My primary drills are two Festool C12's with Nickel batteries. I purposefully chose Nickel over Lithium since they last longer. Bought one during a recon sale for 30% off and another second hand on Craigslist. The C line of drills are brilliant in my opinion. Planning on getting several CXS's. Most of the time the C12 is larger then I need.
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Post by tonya on Nov 2, 2014 1:50:08 GMT -5
Back to your original post. These are great little drills my set set came with a radio charger which was a pleasant extra. I had a job this week fitting rodent proof draft excluders to all external doors at a school. Everything I needed in a small box drill driver to drill & countersink the ali & impact to fix without predrill plus tunes to work with. Get a spare battery so you've got a full charge in reserve. This is my second kit as somebody thought it would be nice to relieve my of my original plus a further £2500.00 tools from a locked van in a locked compound on a building site in the middle of the day.
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Post by wrightwoodwork on Nov 2, 2014 4:22:32 GMT -5
The thieving torags
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Post by jonathan on Nov 2, 2014 4:43:30 GMT -5
Ouch! Sorry to hear that.
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