2024's Weirdest Impact Wrench + New Channel Record 

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Was that water dripping from the hose fittings or oil?

@@jjchouinard2327 Air tool oil. We also used the same Milton V fittings. But some are rightly pointing out that the couplers were different between the two weeks we tested these. Which is a result of our red milton 5 way taking a dump, and needed to use a previous coupler we've used on the channel. But we can test the IR with the same coupler this week and add a link here (ETA Thursday). We've not seen a measurable difference before, but appreciate you guys highlighting this.

If you are in product development, and you test pneumatic and electric impacts.. is there a chance Astro will develop electric tools at some point?

Every slippable contact point of an impact is where beans slip through. Jack and his magical beanstalk only had one branch to the golden goose, just sayin'

But it's assembled in USA: because you were in the USA when you assembled the anvil that China left left loose in the box.

This was the comment I was looking for. Thanks man you made my day 😂

Guessing you came from Edwin? That guy is nuts and i love it

That sounds like a deeply uninteresting thing to watch. Glad I'm not getting that garbage.

Where is this video you speak of

Just had to go find that video. It’s awesome!

fair honestly

Every old company is like that nowadays. I have a cool waterproof Fluke multimeter and it has bad connections where the test leads plug into. It’s just a bad design. I live with it because I’m not measuring super precise stuff at work and I didn’t pay full price.

IR compressors were really rough for a long time. Atlas not much better and getting worse. I started using Compair and they went downhill, last lot were HPC (Kaeser) and much better. Glad I'm retired.

Wurth stopped using their ones rebranded for similar reasons I think

I feel you, brother, master Ingersoll Rand compressor technician here. Over 20 years with the company split my share of SSR 100-350s worked with the old XLE and PHE . I loved the company, but from 2000 to 2010, Ingersoll Rand basically sold their souls if you asked me. Crap Weg motors from china,the #$@ $#@% Nirvanas about destroyed our relationship with our customers. It's a complete shame because they ran off all their good technicians and ran the line in the dirt. I have all IR tools and compressors for my shop but old tools. Hell the Type 30 was the best line ever made but as you know they ruined that as well. Sad 😔

I got bahned for some reason by mentioning an American company whose initials are SB but they still make their very nice pumps in the US. I scored a couple used ones dirt cheap because they had three phase motors (no problem, I have an RPC) and it's convenient to be able to get parts.

Agreed, matches what we see with attachments so its behaving like a external attachment. Where as we're swapped to extended anvils on old school impacts with no measurable difference.

I’m wondering how a 6” impact extension on a regular tool anvil comps to a 6” IR anvil?

@@TorqueTestChannel now weld a bunch of weight onto the hammer assembly then transplant it into a milwaukee

In forward :P

@@TorqueTestChannel Are forwards numbers not included on the rank chart for BCS? My memory tells me the 900 made 936-942 in forwards

@@slingin_tires they are. But depending on the chart it's only the battery they will include in a kit when tested

@@TorqueTestChannel Understood

I do eyeglass repair at the senior citizen center, Finding the adapters to get my 2235 turning screws was tricky but the RPMs have really helped my flat rate numbers.

​@NONO-hz4vo Nice! Just a few uggua-duggus.. dont want tweak the frames! 😂

Same 😂

power tool make me feel like GOD

Yeah, I'm in healthcare. I am obsessed with this channel.

I’m looking at these and wondering if I should be looking at air tools more :)

@@gf2e Depending on your exact use case, that might not be a bad idea... My two cents In a shop environment where there's alrealdy an air supply, I still think it's a no-brainer, despite the power density of batteries. I feel that by and large, pneumatic tools still provide a better combination of size, power, and and durability for a price as despite living in a very rust-prone geographic location, I have yet to come across a chassis bolt on a passenger vehicle that my decade old sub-$200 air-impact won't chew right through given a decent air supply. If the air line pisses you off, plumb an extension directly onto the tool to reduce the number of fittings around one's hand. I personally use a high quality swivel on the tool, followed by a 12' whip of light-gauge line, connected to heavy lines in the shop. 99% of the time, the reduced flow caused by the whip is still sufficient for the job at hand; and when it's not, temporarily removing the whip is quick and simple. There are plenty of air ratchets barely bigger than a tube of toothpaste, yet the average battery powered air-ratchet is of similar size to a 15A corded angle-grinder... a light air line that follows your arm will never be an issue if the tool doesn't easily slip in to tight spots. A small 1/4" battery gun for under-hood work? Sure, I get it, but where I live I'd prefer to break small fasteners free manually, lest the first two kicks of an impact wrench twist the corroded heads right off. YMMV

That UX "design" is something I'd expect from a Temu tool. It even has the "multitool" 10-in-1 attachment strat going

I have a 2135qxpa, it was pretty low on power so I ripped out the mufflers in the handle and around the motor, now its one of the most powerful in the shop

Named my rex Barney. Got it on sale and I am not disappointed!

The DeWALT made that torque in forward. Not sure what you guys need 1,000 ft-lbs in forward for

@@TorqueTestChannel I need ALL the torque all the time 😏

Most cordless tools will be in the garbage in 5 yrs, or getting weak. My ir231 from '89 is as good as ever, and used a lot. I finally got another, the Astro Thor, because of the high power. Great deal, I expect it to be around for a long time, also. I think of cordless as almost disposable. Not quite, but the batteries just WILL die.

@@TorqueTestChannel Ever had an axle freeze solid to hub splines? It's not super common but it happens. Using an axle pusher or whatever it's called, you can need all the torque you can get. My 900 has done very well for me

Oh man, I could talk for a long time on this. But simply Made in USA has to be wholly or virtually all made and processed in the 50 states. If the product is close to raw material in finished state that needs to include sourced materials made in USA as well. Assembled in USA is one version of a qualified USA product. It requires finish assembly that undergoes as "substantive transformation" and usually should require skilled work and tools or machinery to perform. This was created back when finish assembly would be done in the US due to a more skilled workforce. Now-days it's more often (though not by everyone) used as a loophole as it's less regulated by the FTC, is harder to regulate, and IF you're ever "caught" it's not so much a punishment as a "hey, actually this is wrong, don't do that". People often think brands only do this for marketing reasons but there's a list of benefits to skating the line. - HTS codes. You can often bring a tool or product in as parts and pay a lower tariff %, or avoid the current 25% tacked most but not all Chinese products. - Patents. Sometimes the source country (if they care about these things) has a patent on a product and can't be made there. - Tax incentives. Counties and states in the US provide tax breaks to companies that employ a skilled workforce or produce US products. You can have a 90% workforce warehousing, shipping, logistics but 10% assembling tools and sometimes this still qualifies.

@@TorqueTestChannelIt’s a bit like Brazil repackaging Japanese electronics, SOMETIMES in a Brazilian-made plastic shell, just to skirt import restrictions. When NAFTA happened all of North America switched to Made in Mexico.

Ford is known for this as well... A certain SUV is made in Mexico & Germany. But assembled in the good ol USA! Keeps the tariffs down, profit up, & quality below the belt! UAW finally had enough & went for the throat w\last contract negotiations. But with the EV fiasco the workers are probably looking at becoming more & more a couch potato 😢

​@@TorqueTestChannel "Made in USA" is definitely a lot looser than you're describing here as well. I previously worked for a Canadian company that made pipe for oil and gas wells. We purchased steel coils from Canadian steel mills, had them slit by a Canadian subsidiary of our company, then sent them to a pipe mill we built just over the border, where the steel slit coils were rolled into pipe. The pipe was then shipped back to the plant I worked at in Canada, where we heat treated the pipe, performed extensive testing on it, threaded the ends for assembly, then shipped it out the door as "Made in USA". Canadian raw materials, bulk of processing done in Canada, but apparently the fact that it became a pipe in the USA was substantial enough for the entire end product to be marked as made in USA. And this wasn't a fraudulent claim on "our" part either, this was signed off on by the US government for tariff and duties.

Just assume everything is made in China, because it likely is.

The IR style fwd rev switch can't be beat in ease of use. Maybe cordless but that's it

IR's own testing practices developed with SIOUX tools & Skidmore Wilhelm that standardized this sort of thing doesn't go beyond 10 seconds.

Thing is a savage yet feels like a puppy dog

Why didn’t you like it?

@DadDaGoat123 I put the 2779 and the 3779 head to head on equally torqued bolts. The new 3779 took nearly twice the time remove it as the 2779. I recently ordered another 2779 as a back up, because I know it won't let me down.

Air fittings? We've used Milton V on every air tool since the start. As for couplers, we used one of the Italian universal couplers we often have since channel start on the IR as we've been having fitment issues on the red Milton 5 in 1. So we've since ordered the all steel milton 5-in1 couplers hopefully they will last longer. We got the viewer's Matco later during shooting so it has that. Both coupler types have a CFM well in excess of the tool, but we still own the IR so would be happy to show it with the same coupler if people like.

The pinned post was updated with a link, FYI

I agree, that would be awesome

I would be shocked if IR isn't going to release splined sockets for this tool. Missed opportunity. What was even the point?

Also maybe the ratchet, I have a somewhat unrealistic hope that they might release some more variety in the automotive field if you guys test their stuff.