Impact gun - air or battery?

[Dave.]

Fellow DIYers,

I starting to do more and more of my own work, and helping out others.

Out of shear lazyness, I'm thinking of getting an impact gun.

I don't have a compressor, nor do I have room for anything really, without sacrificing workspace.

Cost isn't a massive issue, but I won't be using it every day, so don't need a SnapOn etc.

I can't see me needing two batteries, as I can just put the one on charge Friday which should last me enough to pop four wheels off and back on on the Saturday.

Any recommendations? I've been looking at sgs's starter kits, which would put me at about £110 for a 6l (5.7cfm) unit, hose etc, and a light duty gun, which would be semi-mobile, and be expandable should I need something else air powered if the future.

Could I get an equally good (bad?) battery gun with battery for the same price?

Or what about a 240v gun? Best of both worlds or worst?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Clarke-CEW1000-Electric-I...


This one has ni-cad batteries and kicks out 220nm as opposed the the mains powered 450nm!

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-cir220-24v-...


Argh, minefield!

[Dave.]

227bhp said:

Dave. said:

I don't have a compressor, nor do I have room for anything really, without sacrificing workspace.

Kind of narrows it down from the title question a bit then.

But if forking out £110 on a compressor/kit which is moveable is better than spending the same on a ste battery powered one, I'm willing to sacrifice a little storage space, so not entirely a stupid question.

[Dave.]

Currently it's a fight between the mains powered Clarke, or this Wolf 18v...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Impact-Wrenches/Wolf-Co...

[Dave.]

SamR380 said:

I have a Clarke AC powered impact driver and an air gun. I would recommend the Clarke on to anyone, it’s as good if not better than an air gun and a bargain at about £60 or whatever it was. It doesn’t go flat and I haven’t found anything it can’t undo. The only problem is the physical size of it is quite big.

Kielder battery guns come with a recommendation from a friend, though I haven’t used them personally. Much better than the Clarke 24v one he had before.

Is that the CEW1000?

[Dave.]

227bhp said:

The extension will have taken some of the torque out of it, they twist and have twice the 'play' in the joints.
Impact wrenches at this level are as much about speed than anything else, not all about undoing things which are very tight.

This is more my needs to be honest, the front to rear swap of wheels and tyre on the two sheds is 36 nuts to take off and put back on.

I'm not going to be undoing many stuck solid bolts (I leave that to my every loving mechanic), more maintenance stuff, undoing undertrays etc.

I'm sure I saw a compressor and buzz gun starter set for £110 yesterday on sgs... Its actually £160... Plus vat...

[Dave.]

Cheers for the input chaps, although I'm still undecided.

[Dave.]

Overkill <> excuse to buy new toy

Tomaytoe <> tomato

[Dave.]

rambo19 said:

frodo_monkey said:

I bought one of these recently, strongly recommended :

Kielder KWT-002-02 18v Brushless Cordless Impact Wrench, 2 x 3.0Ah TYPE18 Li-ion Battery https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014AQHTHG/ref=cm_sw_r...

Been thinking off the same one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jlSqjpwZwY&t=...

I think I'm gonna go with this one, eBay/Amazon/demontweeks/kielder themselves are all within a few quid.

Thanks for the input guys.

[Dave.]

GC8 said:

Dave. said:

Currently it's a fight between the mains powered Clarke, or this Wolf 18v...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/Impact-Wrenches/Wolf-Co...

The mains powered Clarke will win any fight! Masses of twisty power and very cheap relative to even entry-level battery powered kit.

Only trouble with that is zero finesse. It's all or nothing, no speed/torque control.

I have no doubt it'd be great for removing those really stubborn crank/hub nuts, but I wouldn't want to be doing wheel nuts up with it.

[Dave.]

Bit of a bump, but just for the sake of closure, I bought a.......


Compressor, and a bucket load of air tools.



Budget creep and manmaths at its finest.

Thanks all for the input.

[Dave.]

This helped my decision....

https://youtu.be/1o1aKt0c_MI?t=892

Granted I doubt I'll be removing any crank pulleys in the near future, but there's always that one nut/bolt that won't shift as above, & hopefully the compressor & tools will last a long time.

[Dave.]

I've send you an email.