RE: [alfa] Breaker bar vs. impact wrench

["Gwynne W. Spencer" <gwynnes1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

See what the local tool rental shops want for a compressor and impact 
wrench for 1/2 day !!

Gwynne Spencer

PS, OR, buy a cheapy impact wrench for $29.95 and rent just the compressor

G.S.

At 10:36 AM 4/6/2004 +1200, you wrote:
>"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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