3/4" battery impact

chessie4905 · October 30, 2020, 08:41:59 AM

heads up! Harbor Freight has 15% off everything single purchase thru this Sunday. If you are an inside track club member, it is 20% off single purchase. Plus if you get Harbor Freight credit card while you are in there, you get 10% off first purchase. I used both 20%itc, and got their credit card. Got the Earthquake 3/4" drive battery impact and while we were in there, Linda bought a spare battery for 15% off, since she is on there mailing list too. Bottom line; I got the impact for 200 bucks plus tax comes and with a battery and case.
Ive never seen that model impact on sale, just the 1/2" one.
Yeah, I know, the Fuel impact is supposedly better, but at this deal can't pass up. Just a heads up on this deal. Not intending to start a popcorn session.😄

Scott & Heather · October 30, 2020, 09:59:35 AM

Or you can buy the dewalt and be much much happier.

chessie4905 · October 30, 2020, 02:10:28 PM

why? because youve used both?

luvrbus · October 30, 2020, 03:10:02 PM

I checked those out today they look alright and would be ok for a owner using it not everyday,I started to buy one for the shop but the 90 day warranty turn me off by the time you paid for a 3 year warranty it cost more to buy than a Dewalt that comes with a standard 3 year warranty

chessie4905 · October 30, 2020, 04:49:44 PM

I dont plan on using mine every day. But will come in handy out on the road. And sometimes I have a bolt or nut the 1/2" wont cut it and hate hooking up the big line and 3 /4 or 1" tool.
Besides, I wont buy any more Dewalt since they are owned by Black and Decker. B&D makes junk and I wont support them anymore. Guess it's like tires.

chessie4905 · October 30, 2020, 05:07:17 PM

Just looked the Dewalt up. It says battery and charger are extra, just like Milwaukee.

Van · October 30, 2020, 05:22:28 PM

Quote from: chessie4905 on October 30, 2020, 04:49:44 PM
I dont plan on using mine every day. But will come in handy out on the road. And sometimes I have a bolt or nut the 1/2" wont cut it and hate hooking up the big line and 3 /4 or 1" tool.
Besides, I wont buy any more Dewalt since they are owned by Black and Decker. B&D makes junk and I wont support them anymore. Guess it's like tires.

Hey wait a minute I thought B&D made good coffee makers, oh well. $:-\$

But really am curious how the HF 3/4" does, please let us know if you get one

Fred Mc · October 30, 2020, 08:02:13 PM

"Guess it's like tires"
Dewalt make tires???

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I have owned 4 dewalt tools.I originally liked them cause they were yellow

but they all
broke.No more Dewalt for me-ever. Milwaukee it is.

windtrader · October 31, 2020, 12:51:55 AM

Fred - I agree and no longer the yellow brand. It WAS a quality brand but no longer in my book.

3/4" impact - I totally agree to with lug removal tool. If you do this all day long I've seen personally how an impact is useful. For those busnuts,

luvrbus · October 31, 2020, 04:25:08 AM

LOL you guys are rough on tools,I have both the red and yellow neither one is going to give the long life service of a quality air tool ,I have a B&D commercial grade 4 inch grinder I purchased in 80's that has outlasted 2=4 inch Milwaukee grinders

DoubleEagle · October 31, 2020, 08:27:13 AM

I have a DeWalt 1/4" Impact that has given me great service, and I have a B&D Commercial grinder that I bought used from a Welder in 1984 that continues doing nasty grinding. Things are different because old brands have changed hands, and many items are now made in China, but if you can find a good old tool at an auction or garage sale, get it. I still have a 1/2" drill from Montgomery Ward that my Uncle bought in 1962 (I had to replace the electric cord). The newer battery impacts that are available now are the exception, they had no counterpart decades ago (unless you include air tools).

benherman1 · October 31, 2020, 09:27:07 AM

I bought the 3/4 Earthquake sometime around March of this year. It has had no problem with anything on the bus except the budd inner nuts that hadn't been touched for 25 years. I had a friend bring a 1" air impact by after installing the needed outlet on my compressor and it got them off after a bit of a fight. It seems like a solid tool and rips through everything else quick and easy. I really like it for demo tasks where breaking the bolt doesn't hurt anything. I can usually snap a 1/2" bolt in about half a second if I just let it go full force.

chessie4905 · October 31, 2020, 03:56:38 PM

One issue I see in all impact wrenches, air or battery. Forward torque is noticeably less than reverse. Normally ok, but left hand threads nuts on coaches may not be as easy to loosen.

Jim Eh. · November 01, 2020, 01:01:03 AM

I have a new Dewalt 3/4" impact. I use it to set (read pre-set) hub piloted wheel nuts before final set with proper torgue wrench to 450 ft. lbs.
It's just that it is hard on the fastners letting the gun hammer soooo long to get it close to that point.

chessie4905 · November 01, 2020, 04:02:08 AM

aren't hub piloted nuts metric? You using a metric socket or an inch type that could be a little sloppy fit.