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I'm still surprised how much more I use my impact driver than my drill (with torque selector).

• happytoexplain 4y ago
  I used to only use a drill, under the theory that I merely had to select an appropriate torque level to avoid stripping the screw, so why use two tools? And yet, even with an appropriately sized pilot hole, I would have to put a suspicious amount of force into it to keep the bit from jumping. One day I realized: Sure, you can't lower the torque on an impact driver, but the impact action means it doesn't need to apply as much torque as a drill does to do the same job. It is seemingly calibrated to the perfect amount of torque to keep the bit from jumping, and the impact action does the rest without you having to apply undue force - it can just take a couple seconds longer is all. I was dismissing the right tool for the job due to an unwarranted confidence in my own understanding of the tradeoffs involved in the physics.
  • sshine 4y ago
    Ok, you convinced me. Then again, I sometimes use a drill hammer to hang up pictures, just because it’s easier to extract from the cupboard.
• genericone 4y ago
  Oil-impulse driver for the best of both worlds.