What size impact sockets are needed?

   / What size impact sockets are needed? #11  
Get a 1" drive socket set and you will be golden
I was going to suggest that or 3/4”.
There’s a lot of used socket sets, many well made (not chinese) available on FBM or CL.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #12  
I have a set of cheap 3/4" drive sockets. Not harbor freight, but on par quality wise. I think the brand was "grip".

Bought the set years ago at a discount store before HF's became popular. Like $40 or something. Not even impact grade. Goes from 15/16 up to 2".

In the larger sizes like this.....6-point sockets.....I have yet to even find a metric nut that one of the SAE sockets wouldnt work on. ANd in 20 years, with breaker bars, 6' cheater pipes, and an IR 2145ti impact.....havent broke a single one.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #13  
If you have an impact wrench/driver, then use impact sockets. They're a little softer than standard sockets--Made for impact work. I have from 1/4" drive up to 1" drive impact sockets. I've never broken one of those either, but I have broken chrome sockets before.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #14  
Like 4570man - I have a 1/2" impact socket set. I use them with my manual socket wrench for those really tough situations. Otherwise I have about six 3/4" impact sockets that I use with my impact gun. All six are over 1" sockets.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #15  
Axel nuts and hydraulic cylinder glands. But axel nuts are usually special sockets and the cylinder nuts are so tight it’s more specialized equipment. My regular socket set goes to 1.5” which is usually good enough. I have a 3/4” drive set that goes bigger that I use occasionally.
Kind of curious as to what an 'axel' nut is. Never heard of that..

I believe you mean axle nut.

I have the HF black oxide impact sockets in metric and SAE and I've never split one. I have split Snap-On, MAC and SK Wayne.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #16  
These packout sockets aren’t the best value, you could get a harbor freight set for under half the price but it’s worth it to have them organized vs falling all over the place. View attachment 807984
If it's branded 'Milwaukee', I run away quick. 'Milwaukee' stuff is over priced generally.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed?
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#17  
If you have an impact wrench/driver, then use impact sockets. They're a little softer than standard sockets--Made for impact work. I have from 1/4" drive up to 1" drive impact sockets. I've never broken one of those either, but I have broken chrome sockets before.
Hence the title " What size impact sockets are needed?".
My new impact wrench, DEWALT DCF900P1, specs up to 1400 breakout.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #18  
If it's branded 'Milwaukee', I run away quick. 'Milwaukee' stuff is over priced generally.
I like the Milwaukee pack-out system for sailing gear, all the organized bins to sort pins, shackles, ring dings, bobbles, and the big bins for lines, foul weather gear, etc. Great to be able to wheel it off the truck and right down to the dock. Also, relatively weather-proof, so all your gear stays dry, even in nasty coastal salt-water environments.

But I wouldn't even think of using that plastic crap as an actual tool box around tractors and equipment! Like Hay Dude, I think I'd break it in less than a week, and that comes from someone who actually owns a bunch of them.

Yeah, they've got an insane mark-up on that crap, they'd probably make a killing selling it at half of market price. But for a very portable and stackable system that keeps gear dry in the bed of a pickup sitting by the boat ramp in salt spray and rain, it works better than other things I've tried.

As to the OP, I'd just buy an SAE set up to 1-1/8" and a metric set up to 30mm, or whatever you find at decent price. Sizes above this are usually bought one at a time, as they're all special purpose, and very few weekend mechanics need every size above 1-1/8" or 30mm.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #19  
I learned the hard way. When you see the chrome splitting off your standard Snap-On or Proto sockets - you know you should have used impact sockets. I had this happen long before I ever had an impact gun.
 
   / What size impact sockets are needed? #20  
I have the 55 piece Kobalt set. Goes up to 1 1/16. I also just buy what I need larger than that. Set has held up to the m18 high torque no issues.
 

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