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Originally Posted by TwitchKitty
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How do you like that electric impact? I have an old corded one I have been using for years and have thought of getting a cordless one. The SnapOn cordless impact is made in China.
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Whoa, I missed this one.
I like the cordless impact real well. Took me awhile to get used to it. One of my coworkers had the earlier 9.6V impact and it was hard for me to use. Once you get the hang of it, they're great. Noisy as hell though. Especially if you're screwing down some plywood sheathing on a wall. Like a huge guitar soundboard, with the impact a rat-a-tat-tatting away.
My previous screw-gun was a Makita 14.4V cordless drill. I liked it at first a lot, but the damn thing is real heavy. The impact weighs almost half as much, I'd guess. On the cordless drills, the chuck and the gearing for low and high speed both add a lot of weight. The impact has neither, which also makes it much more compact for getting into tight spaces.
You don't need to push down as hard with it as you do a cordless drill, because when it hits resistance, it does the impact thing, which helps to keep it from jumping off the screw or rounding out the phillips female screw head.
And when you're taking screws out, after it rat-a-tat-tats for a second or two, it zooms up to full speed which is way faster than the low speed setting on a cordless -- maybe faster than the high speed as well, not certain.