nvw
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Post by nvw on Feb 6, 2021 13:10:34 GMT -6
Mine just purrs along, no strange noise, bring it back. Someone else already did it sounds like. Which model does yours happen to be and have you been doing grinding and cut off work with it ?. Also what battery size have you used and how is that lasting for the work it can do for one charge. It's the 2680-20, likely the cheaper version but with big batteries I'm happy with it. The 2 A/H ones not so much.
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Post by northernfarmer on Feb 6, 2021 13:53:17 GMT -6
Yes that seems to be their bottom economy unit and as I mentioned about where its listed on their website, I can't even find it under the normal headings and is not in their grinder section nor in their cutoff section. I don't recall what size battery the neighbour had on his when he handed it to me but it would not have been a battery of that much size. That seems to be a model they throw at the big box stores, no doubt a method of getting one to buy into the Milwaukee tools with an attractive price and after the fact realize how insane battery prices are for any of the brands of tools. There is still a need for corded or air tools when it comes down to extended use with the current battery technology. Oh these companies know marketing all right, how to play the game to get people thinking they must have this or that item while in some cases its a typical city home owner and the electric drill or grinder he may own is perfectly fine but the wife buys him a cordless of whatever flavor for his birthday or Christmas and you guessed it, she bought it at the big box store where they also sell pretty pink girly tool sets because shes never been into an industrial supply store in her life.
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Post by snapper22 on Feb 6, 2021 22:16:21 GMT -6
My dad bought me a 1/2” Ingersol 20 volt impact. Rest of my battery and corded is Makita 18volt. For 80% of what I do the Ingersol is more than enough. Great super heavy duty impact. I’ve had Makita for years but they don’t have a 1/2” that’s much good. The battery grinder is good for light cutting and grinding but really handy. I use the heck out of the 1/4” impacts and circular saw. I love them. Milwaukee looks awesome but I’ve had Makita since the newer style 18v came out. Princess was selling recon Makita and we bought the grinder and circular saw. Should’ve bought the recip saw while they were there.
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Post by kevlar on Mar 10, 2021 8:55:57 GMT -6
Have had a chance to use our new impact on a few different jobs, really impressed. Rattles off truck tires like nothing. Even more impressed with how consistent it torques things back up. There is a way to program the torque settings but haven't got into that yet, but used it on my pick up tires the other day, put it on setting 1 just to play it safe. Put the torque wrench on it after to see how close it was to the 150 ft/lbs required, on all wheels, 24 nuts, every one took about 1 inch of movement on the end of the wrench to click, I thought that was very good. Same on a trailer wheel, set it to #3 and torqued after, every one was exactly the same, I thought they might be all over the place because of dirt and rust but it wasn't. Another nice thing I like about it is how once the nut or bolt comes loose, it slows down and works more like a drill instead of spinning at a 1000 rpm and shooting the nut across the shop!
After using this thing, we will likely just get any new tools in battery form now instead of air, just so much handier.
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 10, 2021 9:36:58 GMT -6
Kevlar, initially when I was reading your review and you said truck tires and then mentioned a pickup and went on to mention a trailer tire, was the trailer tire on a grain trailer as in a 500 ft lb torqued wheel ?. If so had that wheel been on for years and the hardware rusted up or was it not in bad condition. Like I mentioned before and of course not the 3/4 impact like yours but the 1/2 Milwaukee, the only 22 mm diameter stud ( 33 mm socket ) lug nut my wrench could reliably loosen with a lot of work though were ones I had just put on and using oil on the threads, otherwise there was no taking off hardware that had been on for a period of time that was dry. Neighbours 1/2 same thing and he said it was way too hard on the unit just to finally loosen one nut. So as you use the tool more you will see how it does over all and for all I know it may have better performance in reality then what the narrow margin of difference they claim on paper there is between these two tools.
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Post by kevlar on Mar 10, 2021 13:13:50 GMT -6
Sorry, I realized after I wrote that I should have been more clear. Yes they were grain trailer wheels, 500 ft/lbs, hadn't been on too long so that no doubt helped. Will be interested to see how it does with rustier nuts. It took off the bolts holding the tripples on our tractor no problem, but again they weren't rusty. I honestly don't expect it to take off wheel nuts that have been on for ten years, our air wrench won't do that either but it's not a brand name so not the best quality. I'll keep updating this as I use it more. I see the portability of it being one of the biggest bonuses.
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Post by meskie on Mar 10, 2021 13:47:42 GMT -6
You will wonder how you ever farmed without the battery powered tools after using them for a while.
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Post by northernfarmer on Mar 10, 2021 13:55:37 GMT -6
For sure there is no doubt portability becomes the huge benefit as soon as one walks out of the shop and for that matter in a shop if an air hose is far away and have a quick job you don't need to go through that effort of dragging a hose around for. Going out anywhere in the yard or the field if one doesn't have a service truck with compressor on it also as a mechanic I have come out to do some things to the combines for example doesn't use his small gas engine run compressor near as much as he used to as he has multiple 3/8 drive compact Milwaukee impacts for the smaller hardware and his productivity is up because of it as he just grabs it and is crawling on the piece of equipment in an instant. From what bit I have seen bin building crews have gone that way as well for ease of portability over the traditional corded electric impacts that used to be the mainstay of that business. But when it comes to brute power for extended periods of time, that still falls back to gas engine, air or electric tools. I suspect if there is a continued leap in battery technology this trend will keep growing of more portable battery tools taking over the electric tool market.
You will be so glad to have it when you have a flat tire on an implement out in the field for example or as I may have mentioned before about having some NH3 knife issues develop a couple of years back and far easier to zip one off and throw on a new one vs dealing with that hardware under the cultivator with hand tools and taking far longer to do it.
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Post by torriem on Mar 10, 2021 19:07:03 GMT -6
Glad it's working well for you, kevlar. I agree with meskie. These tools have totally changed the way we work and we wouldn't want to ever work without them.
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Post by kevlar on Apr 19, 2021 20:44:33 GMT -6
Took a grain truck tire off the other day, hasn't been off in quite awhile, rattled them off no problem. Did find one bolt it couldn't handle. Was on a Timbrun rubber suspension block. The nuts are molded into the rubber so I imagine it not being held solid was the reason as the rubber was like a shock absorber. So far still very pleased with it.
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