Thread: Do I need an Impact Driver?

Sounds fine. You should enjoy having it


Dave

The Turning Cowboy

Originally Posted by Ratbag

Needle-nose or brad point bits of any size are nigh on impossible to sharpen on anything less that the diamond CNC machinery used by the manufacturer!

Don't mean to be rude, but that's just plain rubbish. I regularly sharpen HSS brad point bits at work on a bench grinder. 6" dia x 1/4" thick white oxide wheel dressed to around 5-10 degrees off square gets 3 beautifully sharp points that bore with little to no tearing at all. Admittedly, anything smaller than 6-7mm takes a fine touch to get right but I've gone down to 5mm brad point and 3mm twist with good results.

Anyone in Melbourne who wants lessons is free to get in touch with me (BYO drill bits)

Originally Posted by elanjacobs

Don't mean to be rude, but that's just plain rubbish. I regularly sharpen HSS brad point bits at work on a bench grinder. 6" dia x 1/4" thick white oxide wheel dressed to around 5-10 degrees off square gets 3 beautifully sharp points that bore with little to no tearing at all. Admittedly, anything smaller than 6-7mm takes a fine touch to get right but I've gone down to 5mm brad point and 3mm twist with good results.

Anyone in Melbourne who wants lessons is free to get in touch with me (BYO drill bits)

Elanjacobs

What are you doing Australia Day Weekend?

If you feel like a visit to Jerilderie for a woodworking and any other work get together you'd be welcome and can give some sharpening demo's.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f25/ww...ml#post1723287

Any one else welcome too


Dave

The Turning Cowboy

Originally Posted by Arry

Cheers everyone

I went out and bought a Dewalt 18V 1/4 inch Kit which contains the Impact driver, charger and two 1.5ah batteries for $359

Does that sound about right?

Cheers

My personal experience with Dewalt is that they are nothing but garbage, had one for 5 years, glad when it died and I could replace it

Originally Posted by DaveTTC

Elanjacobs

What are you doing Australia Day Weekend?

If you feel like a visit to Jerilderie for a woodworking and any other work get together you'd be welcome and can give some sharpening demo's.

https://www.woodworkforums.com/f25/ww...ml#post1723287

Any one else welcome too


Dave

The Turning Cowboy

I've already got plans, but even if I didn't it's a long way from Melbourne.

Originally Posted by rwbuild

My personal experience with Dewalt is that they are nothing but garbage, had one for 5 years, glad when it died and I could replace it

I agree. We had Dewalt drills at trade school and they were horribly unbalanced (front-heavy), nothing wrong with the build quality from what I could tell, they just felt crappy.
That being said, it was 5 years ago so their new stuff might be better.

I think the newer stuff is better. Is still go Makita or hitachi as preference but of given one is be happy with DeWalt. I've had a number of older 18v DeWalt which has been retired to a new user.

Originally Posted by Arry

Cheers everyone

I went out and bought a Dewalt 18V 1/4 inch Kit which contains the Impact driver, charger and two 1.5ah batteries for $359

Does that sound about right?

Cheers

Interested to know your impressions after you've used it for a week or so.

It was a real lightbulb moment for me when I got mine.

Light, small, fast, powerful, controllable and no torque transmitted back through your wrist when driving a screw. You need much less forward pressure to stop the screw from stripping making it way easier in awkward situations and you can sink a screw half way in, stop and start again without stripping or snapping the screw.

I'll never touch a screw with a cordless drill again. The impact driver is just the right tool for the job.