On Sat, 13 Oct 2012 18:01:33 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Saturday, October 13, 2012 12:44:45 PM UTC-5, Existential Angst wrote:
Yes indeedy....



I couldn't figger out the functional diff between the drill/driver and the

impact driver I bought

http://www.homedepot.com/h_d1/N-5yc1...&storeId=10051

and was initially going to query the groups on this, but then I found

http://www.finehomebuilding.com/how-...t-drivers.aspx



an inneresting review of a variety of drivers (and shows how an impact

driver works, via the internals, fascinating), which indeed states that

these impact drivers are specifically for driving tough, deep screws. I was

initially thinking, Dayum, this impact driver seems awfully small to remove

the lug nuts of my car..... doh

Just in case others have shared my conunudrum....



The above HD Makita set ($99, 12V drill/drive+impact driver, charger, two

batts, in a bull**** alum "camera case", like Aire Jordans) is cheaper than

other stuff, and the power of the driver seems substantially less than the

similarly sized Milwaukee drill driver (also 12V, also made in Chiner) that

my buddy has, as we were able to do a side-by-side comparison.



And the makita battery doesn't last nearly as long. But, those small

milwaukee batts are $70 all by themselves -- holy **** -- but seem to last

forever.

So actually, I couldn't say f'sure whether the raw power of the makita was

less, or that the battery had just gotten comparitively weaker by that

point -- but, which is sort of six-one/half-dozen, from a practical use pov.



Still, the Makita set is neat, useful, relatively cheap. Note that these

drivers are much smaller than the big-battery style, but really handy, and

did well on some substantial-sized projects. . Even the above reviewer

comments on size/convenience.

I'm almost done with my outside home-moaning projects (boucou fencing,

gates, etc), but if I were to do it again, I'd buy like 3 sets of those

makitas (6 drivers altogether), just to have the right driver bit, drill,

etc always handy -- helpful in the heat of home-moaning battle and

confusion.



Note that altho impact drivers always seem to be chuckless (that spring hex

ditty), that drill/drivers also can be chuckless with that same spring/hex

ditty. Fortunately the makita drill/driver was chucked, altho if you catch

one of the HD demo videos on this makita set, the drill-driver is not

chucked.... weird.... but this could be a different set, as I think they

mentioned 10.8V, and this set is jalternately listed as "12 V" or "10.8-12 V

max"..



Plus, these impact drivers *sound* really cool, seem to amp up home-moaning

testosterone a bit.... which would proly be a really big plus for Trader4 et

al.

--

EA

After buying & using 2 impact drivers, I'll never drive another screw with a drill!

+1.

Drills are for making holes. Impact drivers fill them with screws.