[ale] WAY OT: Air tools?

[Mike Lockhart]

It depends on what kind of air tool you bought first off, as L. Wayne
James mentioned earlier, and also what brand you bought.  You definately
need an impact wrench. If you're going to by air tools, you have to, and
I can't stress enough "have to" go ahead and take the financial hit to
get quality tools.  There are only to brands that some of my past
employers would let me use, and that was Ingersol-Rand and Snap-On. 
(used to do steelwork and mechanics).  Also, most good impact guns have
a tourqe control.  Its usually on the trigger, though some have it on
the bottom near the male hose connector or on the back.  Read your users
manual on this.  Additionally, if you plan to keep these tools around
for a while and would like them to work to their best, make sure that
you oil them based on the manufacturers recommended time frame.  And put
a moisture trap on your compressor output to prevent any
condensations/dirty oil that gathers up in the compressor from getting
in the air tool.  Hope this helps!

- mike

Oh yea, and using to take lugs off is 100% fine, NEVER put them back on
with an impact!!!!!!!!!!

On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:27, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> Yeah, then I can use the air chisel to cut out the lug that I just
> broke... :>
> 
> 
> Thus spake cfowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):
> 
> > You need to get a very long pipe.  Allow the pipe to act as a fulcrum to
> > provide way more power than the 120lb wrench.  You can use your body
> > weight too.
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 11:20, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > The directions for the impact wrench say not to exceed 120lb, I dialed
> > > it all the way up to 120 and it didn't help.  It was able to tighten
> > > them down nicely but for breaking loose the existing ones did squat.
> > > 
> > > Thus spake L. Wayne James (wjames at mindspring.com):
> > > 
> > > > Many modern compressors have a pressure control at the tank where you set the 
> > > > pressure in the hose.  It sounds as though yours is set too low.  Look at the 
> > > > wrench to determine its working pressure and set the "hose pressure" 
> > > > accordingly.
> > > > 
> > > > I am also assuming you are using the impact wrench and not the "air ratchet".  
> > > > The ratchet will not break the lugs loose by itself.  The air drive in it is 
> > > > for spinning relatively loose nuts quickly.
> > > > 
> > > > HTH,
> > > > Wayne
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Monday 03 February 2003 10:59, Robert L. Harris wrote:
> > > > >   Got a great deal on a set of air tools recently and I'm looking for some
> > > > > more info on usage.  I've got plans for it when I get my house and have
> > > > > used them a good bit since I got them but had a wierd stumper Sat.  I
> > > > > went to take the tires off my brother in law's car so I could change his
> > > > > breaks.  The wrench wouldn't even budge the lugnuts which were removed
> > > > > without too much work with a 4x tire iron.  The compressor had plenty of
> > > > > preasure and the wrench was hitting just not very hard it seemed, I
> > > > > tried the dial on the bottom of the wrench, no change.
> > > > >
> > > > >   Anyone have a good website on things like how-to's for air tools, etc?
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert
> > > > >   (For those who don't like OT, I'll use the air chissel to cut open
> > > > > hard drives on occasion, it's rather fun actually)...
> > > > >
> > > > > :wq!
> > > > >
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> Robert L. Harris                     | PGP Key ID: E344DA3B
>                                          @ x-hkp://pgp.mit.edu 
> DISCLAIMER:
>       These are MY OPINIONS ALONE.  I speak for no-one else.
> FYI:
>  perl -e 'print $i=pack(c5,(41*2),sqrt(7056),(unpack(c,H)-2),oct(115),10);'
> 


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