I've only ever needed an impact wrench for personal use. I bought a campbell housfield 1/2" to use but it seems to be a dog. It's like it runs out of power as the day goes on, but it is hooked to a porter cable 6cfm@90, 25 gal compressor. I was also only using it to remove 3/8" nuts to take some tool boxes off my farm truck. They weren't even rusty.
I took it back and exchanged it for another but it did the same. The manual indicates it needs less air than my comp puts out. I bought it because it said it put out 340ft/lbs of tork.
Do these homeowner type impacts suck and should I get a better one? Some of them have even less tork than this one. I really doubt it is my compressor, but I guess it could be. When the wrench starts to dog down the compressor shows plenty of air in the tank and sometimes hasn't even restarted itself. Does anyone have any opinions of the red one HFT sells. Name like thunderbolt or something) It is supposed to have about 2X the tork and is usually about 80.00.
TIA for any replies. MP
I took it back and exchanged it for another but it did the same. The manual indicates it needs less air than my comp puts out. I bought it because it said it put out 340ft/lbs of tork.
Do these homeowner type impacts suck and should I get a better one? Some of them have even less tork than this one. I really doubt it is my compressor, but I guess it could be. When the wrench starts to dog down the compressor shows plenty of air in the tank and sometimes hasn't even restarted itself. Does anyone have any opinions of the red one HFT sells. Name like thunderbolt or something) It is supposed to have about 2X the tork and is usually about 80.00.
TIA for any replies. MP