"dave" wrote in message
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I've been toying with the idea of getting an impact wrench. (battery
elect.
driven). I do the (all too) occasional work on the car etc and have heard
how
useful these thing are supposed to be (eg getting rusted nuts off etc).
From
what I can see though, it'd be tricky to get something the size of the
wrenches
I've seen anywhere near an exhaust nut!

Still, I appreciated views on;

The general usefulness of impact wrenches
Any recommendation as to make/model (£100 limit for me)
1/2 or 3/8?

See the review:
http://www.onlinetoolreviews.com/rev...obioneplus.htm
Scroll down to the Impact Driver. With charger, 2 batteries and Impact
Driver the Ryobi is £130 from Screwfix and you can add to it by buying the
tool with the battery.

An Impact Driver can be used as an Impact Wrench with an adaptor. If you
wants a versatile tool the driver is better than the wrench. If you want to
use it for heavy car work continuously then a wrench is the one.