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Review on Experience Unmatched Power With AIRCAT 1150 "Killer Torque" Composite Impact Wrench - 1295 Ft-Lbs by Michael Bryan

Revainrating 5 out of 5

$150!? I'll take three!

I had originally seen this in a sears catalog some years ago. Sears wanted almost double, but it was a great looking tool. So I researched it for a long time. I decided that it was a product worthy of my purchase. And if not I knew that amazon would take it back. I received the gun the next day because I wanted it so badly. I was so happy, before I even used it I knew that it was the real deal. It is built like a tank. Then I took it outside and rotated my tires about nine times. My smile was even larger, I have been using air tools my whole life. Never have I used such an amazing air wrench. I was able to purchase this tool for my home shop use since it is so cheap. That being said my boss uses these professionally, he used mine once, then went out and bought one. He uses it every day, and he still can only say great things about it. He uses it for anything you can imagine, I have helped him out many times using mine. Neither of us have been able to find a bolt that it hasn't completely laughed at. We have even used it on semi and tractor tires. Ha, this thing handles those like many other wrenches handle regular lugs. That being said this thing barely even notices lugs. They come of in less than a second and the gun impacts on them once, maybe twice. This thing also uses almost zero air. I used to run this on my 4.5 gallon air compressor, the compressor continually provides 4.9 SCFM. This tool needs about 4. Now I use it on a thirty gallon tank that holds 200 PSI. I never need to run the pump, ever. The quiet thing? It is not a joke. I am used to using older IR guns that were very loud, these are a dream. Not to mention the light weight factor, this is so light and with an air hose attached it had superb balance. My friend does tires for a living, not on cars though. Trucks, bug ones. Even tractors. He broke down and bought one of these. He used a Matco wrench before, and now, well now its collecting dust. He doesn't need anything else because this has so much reversing power that he no longer needs to haul around his 3/4 or 1 inch impacts. In conclusion this is an amazing wrench, I have thought about a negative to mention for this gun. In my experience there is none. There is a reason that Mac tools has asked AIRCAT to make their impacts for them, they are the best. (Don't buy the Mac ones, they cost three times as much and are the exact same thing.) Buy this gun, you won't be sorry. I have had this around six months now, so far no issues. I will update.

Pros
  • ‎L-Shape
Cons
  • Can be noisy in operation

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