What cordless impact guns are people using.

[Toms820]

Been thinking for a while about buying myself a cordless impact gun. Problem is there’s so many on the market it’s hard to know which one to buy. So what have people on here bought and how have they found them?

 

[Dave6170]

Milwaukee

 

[SilliamWhale]

All the big names are decent

 

[Lincs Lass]

Makita DTW1001 is 3/4inch ,,1002 is 1/2 inch

 

[Lincs Lass]

Have you all ready got cordless tools

 

[335d]

Metabo 400nm. Bought 5 or more years ago. At the time the only one I could see with adjustable torque. It has a dial which goes from 0 to 12. was the medium one in the range at the time. I really like the fact you can turn it down for tightening smaller stuff up. Then you can tighten by hand to make sure you don’t over tighten. Won’t undo a tractor wheel nut, but excellent around a car, tractor machinery, quad bike etc. 1/2 drive and can handle up to 19mm nuts no problem. If you are looking torque, there are plenty of other options, but they’re heavy for other work. All depends what you want it for.

 

[Hilly]

Milwaukee

 

[Pistonbroke]

The trouble is you never know how much power you need until you come across a nut/ bolt that won't move,so you need the most Welly you can get which at the moment is Milwaukee

 

[msheep66]

We have a Makita uses the same batteries as our drill and cordless chainsaw.

 

[mo!]

Happy with my brush less Makita, only 400Nm but has a great auto stop feature so you aren't looking for nuts which have spun off to somewhere never to be found. The big 3/4" does look good but too big to be handy.

 

[Lofty1984]

Milwaukee

 

[Lincs Lass]

We have a Makita uses the same batteries as our drill and cordless chainsaw.

Ive got the 1002 ,,it has one fault ,,the F-R button is too close to the trigger and its easily knocked into reverse

 

[msheep66]

Yes I agree it is easy to press the forward reverse when operating the switch.

 

[Phil P]

Another +1 for Milwaukee, I’ve found the 3/8 nut gun really handy for change plough points and cultivator feet, the 3/8 ratchet is also extremely useful, they’ll get used most days. Grease gun is handy too, oh and the grinder, come to think of it the drills good to?

 

[Hilly]

I got a 3/4 drive wish I got the 1/2 as the 3/4 is heavy. An I have a inch windy gun for really stubborn things

 

[bovrill]

I've got a Metabo 600Nm (Their biggest).
I've got a lot of their stuff, because it's very decent quality, but mainly because there's a very good dealership nearby.
It does the majority of stuff I ask it to, but anything too heavy I've got an old 1" drive air ratchet I power with a road compressor, which would restart a planet's spin if it stalled!
The aforementioned dealer now stocks Makita and Milwaukee too and as much as I can't fault the Metabo, I think I'd probably save up the pennies and go down the Milwaukee road if I was starting again, but with all the kit and batteries I've got now, it's too late to change!

 

[bitwrx]

I bought a Makita 1002 (the 1/2" one). It's brilliant, but bloody heavy. Mostly use it for repairing pig huts which have some heavily rusted fasteners. Before buying it, we had a massive pile of huts awaiting repair. Couldn't get the fasteners undone, so had to cut them off with the grinder. Which meant extension leads and goggles and sparks. Basically a PITA job, so it never got done.

The old man ordered a skip which we filled with half the broken huts. It cost £400, and got us no extra huts. I bought the big gun for a similar amount and we smashed through fixing the remainder of the huts. I did another two this week in a spare half afternoon.

I had also previously bought a dtw285 (I think it is). Much smaller and more handy, but no real oomph for getting things undone. It's intended as a scaffolder's tool. Absolutely great for buzzing in a coach screw or M8, M10, M12 bolt or spinning on some wheel nuts, but not good for the more heavier stuff.

i bought both as I already had a Makita drill and grinder. If they were to all get pinched and I had to start again, I'd go for Milwaukee. They do a 3/8" ratchet and grease gun, neither of which can be had in Makita flavour (yet), but I reckon would both be handy beyond measure. Other than that, I can't fault my Makita gear.

As with a lot of things, the price will make you wince. But you'll appreciate having the proper tool long after the pain of spending the money has faded.

 

[milkloss]

Most important points are:
What have you got already?
When you are choosing take into account what other tools you may need.

I went makita 1/2” to go with the dildo saw, drill, impact driver, angle grinder, rip saw, hedge trimmer etc etc

 

[agrotron]

Just ordered a dewalt one as got lots of other dewalt stuff. Got a snap on which was good but the batteries have gone so selling that to pay for the dewalt.

 

[Wombat]

I have the dewalt one it’s very good as well