The butterfly is an impact wrench . The impact wrench gets its
benifits from the pounding that it does while at the same time turning the
nut.
...Art
On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Berry Kercheval wrote:
> > I just bought a butterfly wrench with 3/8 drive and
> > a set of impact wrench sockets. I tried also to buy
> > an extension for the tool, but the only ones available
> > are for 1/2 drive tools. The salesman told me that
> > the amount of torque that the wrench delivers was
> > small enough that I could use a standard extension.
>
> I'm a bit surprised that people need impact sockets for air ratchets. Aren't
> ordinary sockets OK? Impact sockets for impact wrenches, sure, but for a
> plain air driven ratchet aren't ordinary sockets fine? Or am I confused?
> My 3/8 air ratchet doesn't seem to generate enough torque to worry about; I
> usually have to either break loose a nut or do the final torqueing the old
> fashioned way. It sure speeds things up though! I'd use it all the time if
> my compressor didn't keep blowing the circuit breaker.
>
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