Impact Wrench Recommendations

[Kneale Brownson]

I've never seen an "adjustable torque" impact, either electric or air.
They all turn one way or the other and that's it.    An impact can be a
lifesaver for REMOVING fasteners.  You want a hand torque wrench for final
tightening of any fastener requiring a setting.


At 11:18 AM 7/11/2006 -0400, mboucher at hotmail.com Boucher wrote:
>I decided that an Impact wrench would be a good investment if I'm going to 
>continue working on cars.  So I headed out to Home depot yesterday to pick 
>one up.
>
>They only had one electrical model, a "DeWalt" DW293 for $199 CAD.  I 
>figured I'd bite the bullet and make the investment.  I thought that it 
>would also double for a torque wrench because, as I understood it, impact 
>wrenches usually have adjustable torque settings.
>
>So I was surprised to see this $200 tool only have a button for one 
>direction and one for another.  Since it provides 400+ pound/ft of torque, 
>wouldn't this only be good for taking bolts off?