Finally gave in and bought a cordless impact after years of fighting with hand tools, total game changer

I was that guy who swore by breaker bars and ratchets for everything. Spent $250 on a Milwaukee M18 Fuel impact wrench during a sale last month and it paid for itself in two jobs. Pulled off a seized lug nut on a rusty F-150 in 3 seconds that woulda taken me 10 minutes and a lot of swearing. Anyone else get converted late to battery tools and regret not doing it sooner?

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thompson.xena2d ago

My Snap-On dealer buddy actually made a good point about this last week - his shop sees way more complaints about high-torque cordless tools stripping bolt heads than manual tools ever did. The problem is you lose all that fine feedback through your hands (the vibration cancels out the feel) and suddenly you're replacing hardware you could have saved with a simple breaker bar. I'll keep my hands on my old ratchets for anything smaller than suspension work because sometimes the extra time is worth not snapping a bolt off flush with the block.

miles_jackson91d ago

That's exactly why I switched to impact wrenches with adjustable torque settings, @thompson.xena.