Actually I am not a real man, I love a nap in the afternoon and I love holding the Dog when I take a nap and I get a tear or 2 when I watch movies ( of course not Brokeback Mountain), I dont watch football and I stopped drinking beer years ago, and I dont have a GMAC Diesel Cummins 6 wheeler pick up with a 15 foot bed.

But air tools and power tools for their sake drive me nuts, they scare the neighbors, waste electricity and they waste money. Chances are some IQ, a few seconds and something called leverage will save the day. I always train my daughter to use her foot to loosen the lug nuts on the first few turns.

Also some are just for the Lazy. I once watched a lithe tiny Irish man roof a huge house without a nail gun. Every nail was hit by his well aimed hammer, three whacks a shot.
The money could be better spent on more Hand Tools!

Now grinding , sanding , and deburring and painting, thats another issue.

Real men use levers. Short ones.

I got out the 700ft/lb air impact wrench the other day to change a lawn-mower blade.

What does this have to do with diesels?

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91 350SD
14 F150 Eco
19 Fusion Hybrid
11 GT500

Impact Wrench = PIPE
Buffing Wheel for Car Wax = (R u really kidding me?)
Electric Screw Gun = Hand ratchet
Air chisel = Hammer + Cold Steel chisel + 22 bandaids
Cutoff wheel= hacksaw
Air Ratchet = hand ratchet
Gloves = Bandaids
Plastic Parts Bag opener = Teeth + Dentist Bill
Cleaning air = household vacuum cleaner

I dunno, I sorta like to entertain the neighbors with the various air tools - air chisel, air nibbler, air sander/grinder. After the sound show then the light show starts with the welder. Then there's the flame show and shout-dance following that, but preferably without the typical 4th-of-July finale. [ BOOM ]



Ken300D

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1982 300D at 351K miles
1984 300SD at 217K miles
1987 300D at 370K miles

does Dentist Bill come to your home often? does he charge much dollar bills for a house call? does he know buffalo bill or for than matter bungalow bill? not to mention hat bill.

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[1981 300 td tdidi 165500 dark brown/palamino-Brownie-mine-3k miles of ownership
1983 240d 162+++ Anthricite grey w/ henna red interior and hella lights-wifes car-Red

the above two cars are for sale
and can be seen on the cars for sale thread here. pix also available.


240d-144+ Manilla Yellow w/ palmino interior-greasecar kit-Blondie-the college kids car

23" gt 21 speed still on original tires-still got the nubs
21" khs tandem

Carrameow, are you nuts? You don't like power tools? Son, we live in an industrial nation...we are suppose to have power tools. Keep your 3 wackin' Irish roofer...I'll use the air gun! I don't leave home without a cordless drill motor.

Yeah, I wanna go back to spending 5 minutes hand drilling a screw hole and then another 5 minutes to put in a screw. Impact off the lug nuts in less than a minute or expand my hernia with a lug wrench....hummmm, tough choice.

I like the peace and quiet as well as the next guy. To hell with bothering the nieghbors! I'm gonna power up, get done, and then kick back Jack! All this no power tools gibberish makes me wanna go polish my router bits and re-coil my extension cords.

(83-240D...you lost me...bill who??)

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Mark
1983 300TD Wagon
Even a broken watch is right twice a day

but i love the sound of impact wrenches.. the smell of the oily air discahrged from it. makes me feel like im in a big rig shop.

but im going to just buy a manual impact wrench from sears..

After years of slipping wrenches, broken tools, cheater bars, and rounded-off nuts and bolts, I have recently invested in air tools and the ease and quality of my work has gone up 1000%. I'm not going back.

On a related note, I just got a new/old tractor out of a fence-row this weekend and I had to take a wheel off to fix a tire. One of the wheel studs was spinning and we couldn't get the nut off. The elderly dude with me insisted on breaking the nut and stud off with a dull cold chisil and a 2.5 pound hammer. About three hits with that arrangement convinced me that that was not the way that I wanted to spend my weekend. One quality minute with the torch removed the nut and stud nicely. The old fellow acted like we cheated or something. Some techniques from the old school are best left forgotten. Just my opinion.

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'82 240D Euro 68K and growing

craftsman easyout? think it would hold up?

There is no way I could disagree more! I live or die because of power tools. I am a contractor. There is no way I could ever make any money if I didn't use power tools. I am currently doing a roof job. Thats two roofing guns and a big compressor going. Doing a 3000sq/ft roof by hand would be sheer stupidity. Have you ever tried screwing down a subfloor by hand? It takes hours on your knees with a standard screwgun or even an impact gun. My collated screwgun allows me to stand up and drive screws about TEN times faster! You think I carry the shingles up to the roof? No way! The boom truck delivers them to the rooftop for no extra charge! Why kill yourself? I own a 38 ft sailboat. Try sanding the bottom or polishing the hull by hand. It would darn near kill you. I have a very nice 6" DA sander with a dustcollector vacuum and a big buffer to do those chores. They suck enough WITH the power tools. I only occasionally use my air tools but when I need them, I fire up the compressor. Sometimes the old ways are great but in todays world where everything and everyone is competing for my time both on and off the job the power tools get it done faster, safer and with much less effort. Now if they only could come up with a tool that picked up stripped roofing material and put it in the dumpster for me....... RT

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84' Mercedes Benz 300D Anthracite/black, 171K
03' Volkswagen Jetta TDI blue/black, 93K
93' Chevrolet C2500HD ExCab 6.5TD, Two-tone blue, 252K

Excellent thought! I am always singing the praises of the Craftsman bolt extractors but......... The back of the Ford tractor wheel studs are designed to keep from spinning by having a flat edge that fits up against a flat side in the hub casting. The casting wore away enough to allow the stud to spin yet the casting prevents the extractor from fitting over the stud. Hence, I felt no sense of loss by cutting off the nut and the end of the stud. Just one of those things.

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'82 240D Euro 68K and growing

Because you break stuff.

Impacts are great when you have a rusted faster. The quick hits crack the rust, allowing the nut to come off.

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Love the Bob!

I have a whole 3'x2' drawer dedicated to air tools for work. I wonder what that means....

It means you're an "airhead" (like the candy).

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'81 MB 300SD, '82 MB 300D Turbo (sold/RIP), '04 Lincoln Town Car Ultimate

Sooner or later every car falls apart, ours does it later!
-German Narrator in a MB Promotion Film about the then brand new W123.