Hot take: A 6-foot cheater bar beats any fancy impact wrench I ever owned

I was wrestling with a stubborn 2-inch bolt on a boiler plate last Tuesday and after 20 minutes with my Milwaukee gun getting nowhere, I grabbed a random piece of pipe from the scrap bin and it popped right off with zero drama. Has anyone else found that sometimes the simplest brute force trick outperforms all the expensive gear in a pinch?

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caseyl1813d ago

You ever check if that Milwaukee was actually putting out full torque? Those things lose power fast when the battery gets hot or low. Just wondering if the pipe trick saved you or if the gun was secretly half dead the whole time.

logan64812d ago

Yeah, that battery heat thing gets me too.