"David" mumbled:
It rattles away at the nut. To that extent it functions. It doesn't actually loosen the nut...so it doesn't work.
Like I said, this is supposition, but I've used cheap crap like this so many times and being a clever ape I learn from experience.
"Doki" mumbled:
Just looked in Wilkinsons and they sell 'em for £3.99. They extend to
500mm or so, so my guess of 20" wasn't far off!
I've never used one of them, saw them advertized on one of the tacky americanised shopping channels a few years ago, (right after some crappy hand powered ratchet screwdriver, when the bloke says he paid $100 for the store he bought a kids climbing frame from to assemble it for him as he didn't have the tools!!!)
I never thought much of it, but i'm used to my air powered nut gun that whacks out about 20 impacts a second, seeing this thing go whhhhiiiiiiirrrrrrrrr---rrrrrr----rrrrrr----rrrr clunk, whhhhhiiirrrrrrrrrrr--rrrrrrrrr---rrrrrrr---rrrr clunk did not impress me really, and i assosiated it then with those live adverts you see at autojumbles for the wonder socket thing.. that thing with a load of spring loaded pins in it that can replace a 100 piece snap on socket set (aledgidely :) the bloke shows it undooing all sorts of bolts screwed into a piece of wood, eyelets, rounded head bolts etc, he got very angry with me when i grabed hold of one of the rounded bolts with my fingers and wound it out of the wood, it had been screwed in and out so many times the threads were so loose and my dog could have undone it, yet he gave the impression he had to apply force to the bolt to show the socket's pins wouldent break the first time it was used.
Anyway, all thos people who have been saying this nut gun may be crap, and while £20 is not a lot, it's more than they are prepared to spend to find out it's good or crap, this is sold by argos isnt it??
ISTR argos has a 16 day money back gaurentee, buy something and find its crap, and they refund you, so why dosent someone go out and buy it, try it out, and post the findings on here, if they like it keep it, if they dont take it back, and it will have cost you nothing.
Now if they did a 3/4 inch drive version of this tool, that worked on my vans wheel nuts (27mm nuts, torqued to 470 newton meters) then i'd buy it, as using the 6 foot scafold pole is annoying to say the least, (i have arthritis in my back, it's not that i can exert the pressure needed on a smaller bar, it's that it bloody hurts doing so,
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