Impact Wrench Recommendations

[L DC]

Hi Alex,

I'm 100% with you on this reasoning!!

-Best regards

Louis, who would also pay a premium on an adjustable
torque impact gun and who doesn't own one for that
reason :)

 

--- Alex Kowalski <hypereutectic1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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