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taysidedragon:
Chunky, but does the job. 👍
McCabe-Thiele (Ted):
I'm a fan of Milwaukee tools, I already had a Kielder 1/2 Impact driver that I bought for car wheel nuts together with suitable torque sticks for cars.
As has been said power tools are good at undoing bolts etc, I have a low range and a separate high range torque spanner for most tightening jobs.
Skoti:
--- Quote from: exvalvesetdabbler on November 13, 2025, 01:20:17 PM ---Best tools are the ones you make yourself.
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This one for getting the front bearing retainer ring out. Threaded in the middle so that a piece of threaded rod goes through to the other side to clamp it in place so it doesn't cam out and chew up the slots. Angled bar gives a flat face for whacking with a mallet.
Regards
Dave
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Made one similar, but yours is better thought out with the threaded rod idea to hold it tightly in place.
I'm off to carry out that modification on mines now.
Good tip
Cheers
K2-K6:
--- Quote from: exvalvesetdabbler on November 13, 2025, 01:20:17 PM ---Best tools are the ones you make yourself.
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Undoubtedly, for it is my trained for trade, officially :D
Nice work there.
K2-K6:
--- Quote from: McCabe-Thiele (Ted) on November 13, 2025, 03:19:12 PM ---I'm a fan of Milwaukee tools, I already had a Kielder 1/2 Impact driver that I bought for car wheel nuts together with suitable torque sticks for cars.
As has been said power tools are good at undoing bolts etc, I have a low range and a separate high range torque spanner for most tightening jobs.
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They seem well designed, in my admittedly limited experience Ted.
As perhaps others, starting with one type (battery commonality) it makes sense in adding to that. Makita was the first one I bought as an uncle that ran construction business in Australia told me years before cordless and Makita themselves were not that available in UK, that they were head and shoulders above most for reliability and robustness at the price point.
More recently in watching an Irish yt tool repairer extolling their virtues, particularly the best availability for spares to make repairs possible being better than many others. He shows some atrociously used and abused machines from trades use, each one stripped, cleaned, and rebuilt with necessary spares, to be sent out again for another battering.
He certainly gives lucid insight to general machine design and longevity at the upper end of use cycles.
Milwaukee appear to have jumped the opposition here with their 12v small form tools. And so a separate battery platform is now cohabiting a previously Makita household :)
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