04-07-2014, 09:11 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-07-2014, 09:13 AM by powerandtorque.)
If you don't need it to be portable and have nearby mains power, for the money I really don't think that you can go far wrong with the Clarke CEW-1000 mains powered impact gun.
It's a little bulky and it's obviously limited to being used where you can get mains power (so no good at the scrappy for example) but it's a bargain frankly if you buy it on one of Machine Marts VAT free days (little over £50 I think I paid) and it's very effective, far more so than most battery powered variants that I've tried - and of course, doesn't run out of power half way through a job!
Mine's happily cracked off hub nuts, crank pulley bolts etc without issue even when I've snapped the end off my breaker bar trying to undo them without success.
I did have the Clarke CIR450 high power battery impact gun but the battery (literally!) exploded on the 2nd or 3rd charge and I was fairly lucky it didn't burn my house down when it went. I haven't heard of other cases of this and certainly it was replaced with a new kit without question, but something to keep in mind.
Also, despite the on paper spec, it didn't seem any more powerful than the lower power one Clarke do (the same one Dum-Dum mentions above I think) and certainly it's well down on grunt compared to the mains one that I have now.
It's a little bulky and it's obviously limited to being used where you can get mains power (so no good at the scrappy for example) but it's a bargain frankly if you buy it on one of Machine Marts VAT free days (little over £50 I think I paid) and it's very effective, far more so than most battery powered variants that I've tried - and of course, doesn't run out of power half way through a job!
Mine's happily cracked off hub nuts, crank pulley bolts etc without issue even when I've snapped the end off my breaker bar trying to undo them without success.
I did have the Clarke CIR450 high power battery impact gun but the battery (literally!) exploded on the 2nd or 3rd charge and I was fairly lucky it didn't burn my house down when it went. I haven't heard of other cases of this and certainly it was replaced with a new kit without question, but something to keep in mind.
Also, despite the on paper spec, it didn't seem any more powerful than the lower power one Clarke do (the same one Dum-Dum mentions above I think) and certainly it's well down on grunt compared to the mains one that I have now.
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