[alfa] Breaker bar vs. impact wrench

["Bennett, George J" <george.j.bennett@xxxxxxxx>]

One of my best tool purchases when I was starting out was a small
air tank meant for filling tires. Sure makes it easy to keep the
kid's bike tires pumped up, or add the couple psi the car tires
needed each month.

With a simple modification, that little air tank can also run an
impact wrench. At least long enough to break loose a crankshaft nut.

Buy a standard air hose coupling kit. Unscrew the short air hose
and install the coupling kit. Presto! You're in business.

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
Subject: RE: [alfa] Breaker bar vs. impact wrench

"Just buck up and get a damn impact wrench and be done with it!"

That would be fine if we were all wealthy enough.  But an electric
impact
wrench costs a good wad of money, and an air powered gun, though cheap
itself, needs an air compressor to run it, which is another good wad of
money.  I could buy all of the parts I need to rebuild an engine for
that
same wad of money.  Or have a good chunk of body work completed.  That's
a
lot of money for a tool that I would use to undo one nut on my car.  

Sure, an impact gun is a tool that might be nice to have, but I already
have
a tool that does the job in a perfectly adequate manner.  Combined with
a
short ten-pound hammer, it also has an 'impact' function.  Furthermore,
my
tool is convenient, space efficient, and doesn't require an external
power-source, so I can leave it in the trunk of my car for when I need
to
rescue people on the side of the road because some clown has tightened
their
wheel nuts to virtually an immovable degree with an impact wrench.  

Regards,
Anthony White
Wellington, NZ
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