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Electric rattle guns - recommendations please??
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
For the general low torque values on Hondas fitting a Torque stick to an Impact gun ain't going to work for tightening up anything - except car wheels. I am not aware of any impact tool that will accurately tighten up anything below around 65 ft lbs then still using a torque stick.
My cordless tool (a Kielder) has double the torque effect when undoing a bolt that it uses automatically when in reverse but there is no setting for tighteneing up except a lower range - can't remeber the figure its around 150 lb ft in low range for tightening about 300 lb ft for undoing. It's a great tool but my mates cordless Milwuarke is supperior as is the price.
I suspect no impact tool will replace a Torque wrench except at high torque values.
My Kilder came with one battery only the kit that I bought about 6-8 years ago was about £125 it's 1/2 drive, the battery holds it charge but would not undo a couple of my 400 crank bolts - a mate undid it with his Milwuarke .
https://www.kielder.co/collections/impact-wrenches-1
K2-K6:
I favour Makita, but battery compatibility is obviously a big part. Son has them too and so we both benefit from everything being 18v and compatibility bonus for us. There's quite a lot of good tools now from many different brands though.
To answer the question though for Dave, I don't routinely use one for torque to spec though. Small stuff too risky, big stuff, no idea where it's actually got to. Little confidence in that aspect.
For small stuff though, I'm using a screwdriver that's clutched with variable settings to spin things closed then manually check and tighten.
This tool (I've mentioned before ) is really good on siezed items, as you can set low clutch and continually "rattle " at something to eventually get any corrosion to release, that's without a high torque risk for snapping an already compromised fixing.
I've got numerous problematic bits undone like that. Using a square drive adapter, which I've got in 1/4 3/8 & 1/2 inch. Also T bits thumped into knackered Allen heads to remove with ease.
Skoti:
Been using a Millwaukee cordless wrench professionally when removing light truck wheel nuts etc, it's the big daddy of impact wrenches with a price to match.
But wouldn't even think of going near my Honda Cb750 with such a tool, It would be too easy to overtighten and strip stuff.
Only exception would be perhaps removing the crank rotor bolt or those awkward front fork lower stanchion hex screws that spin when you try and loosen them.
Snap-on impact screw driver is probably the most brutal item in my motorcycle tool box.
Johnny4428:
+1 for the Makita. Would never use for tightening though. These things are amazing.
Laverda Dave:
Thanks for all the feedback. I'm going to go with the rattle gun from Machine Mart (it's a Clarke). I've decided on a mains powered item due to its limited use and I really don't want the hassle of batteries going flat or dying especially considering they are going to be in a very cold garage that is the killer of batteries👍
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