Impact Wrench Recommendations

[Evan Parker]

The way an impact gun operates internally is prohibitive to this
approach

Besides, you should only use your gun to roughly get around your torque
fgure, then use your torque wrench for the rest.  Never ever guesstimate
on the impact gun, it's way way way way too error prone.

-----Original Message-----
From: quattro-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:quattro-bounces at audifans.com]
On Behalf Of Alex Kowalski
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2006 1:38 PM
To: quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Impact Wrench Recommendations

Just lurking in this thread, but:

I've always wondered why nobody so far has tried to make a true
adjustable-torque impact wrench.  I don't understand why in "this day
and
age" of computerized tools someone can't build an impact gun that knows
how
much torque it is delivering and automatically varies the amount of air
it
is consuming accordingly.  Seems to me that a creative engineer could
make a
fortune designing such a device, since I've never seen one, and there
are
hundreds of millions of impact wrenches in use throughout the U.S., many
times by people who have to "finesse" the gun or use their accumulated
experience to "guesstimate" how much torque is being applied.

Why guess?  Why hasn't someone figured out how to build an impact wrench
where you can simply turn a dial and set the torque?

Alex Kowalski
'87 5KCSTQ
'86 5KCSTQ
Audi enthusiast who would pay a premium for a true Adjustable Torque
impact
gun.
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