Cordless Impact Wrenches

Our website provides information on the benefits of cordless impact wrenches to enable you to decide on choosing the cordless impact wrench for your next power drill. 

Cordless impact wrenches are far tougher, more powerful and are far more versatile than their look alike cousins, the cordless power drill.  The technology that is put into today's cordless impact wrenches means they are more compact, far lighter, smaller and have on tap an enormous amount of power to enable the tough jobs to be done.   

When you are looking at what type of drill to buy, consider the cordless impact wrench rather than just buying the standard around the house power drill. If you want more torque and more power for the same price of a power drill, then you should select a cordless impact wrench as it will deliver what you need. You will also find the versatility that the cordless impact wrenches provides in being more lightweight, being smaller to get into those hard to get places and having the power you need will enable you to get the job done quicker.

The  cordless impact wrenches are made differently to the hammer drills and the power drills, the cordless impact wrenches create their rotational torque through the gearing mechanism that is being driven by the spring loaded pulsating cam.  This difference enables them to deliver there additional power to the job at hand and the power is not wasted, as is the case with hammer drills and the power drills.  You will notice this power difference when you use the different drills. Often a power drill or a hammer drill doing a hard job will twist or kick back in your hand.  This never happens with cordless impact wrenches as there power is delivered at the end of the drill, not in the hand.

Jobs that the cordless impact wrenches are well suited for are the fastening of drywall or metal roofing, the drilling into concrete of bolts and screws, overhead work and any other tough job you have at work or around the house. The cordless impact wrenches power feels the same as the general power drill in the low ranges, however once you pull the acceleration trigger you will feel and appreciate the difference. They are also a little bit more noisier when the trigger is fully pressed but this isn't for long as the job is done very quickly due to their power and you will not need to exert a lot of pressure to get the fastener to tighten. This is because the cordless power wrench is designed to do this without strong pressure from the operator. This is one of the problems with the power drill, you have to exert pressure for the really hard jobs, which puts a load on the drill, which if done often enough, will see them not lasting a very long time.

The cordless impact wrench can operate like a normal power drill as it can easily drill holes up to a 7/8 inch diameter.  Being lightweight and smaller (upwards of 40% smaller than a power drill) the cordless impact wrench can be used all day without you getting tired from a more heavy power drill (some impact power wrenches are half the weight of a power drill) which also has less power, which means you will probably be applying more pressure to the power drill to get the job done.

The cordless impact wrench has a fast release chuck, so you don't have to waste time in fiddling and continuing tightening the chuck, like you have to do with a power drill chuck.  The chuck on the cordless impact wrenches is much bigger than the power tool and with the power of these wrenches they are now rivaling the power of impact wrenches that are on an electric cord. Battery life of the cordless impact wrench is much better than the power drill, due to the heavy duty materials used in the gear case, gearing and bearings, that require less power to be drawn from the battery. 

All the big manufacters of power tools make cordless impact wrenches, these include Makita, Bosch, DeWalt, Milwaukee, Panasonic and Ingersoll-Rand.