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Re: Extension for a 3/8 drive butterfly wrench

To: Berry Kercheval <berry@kerch.com>
Subject: Re: Extension for a 3/8 drive butterfly wrench
From: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 13:05:23 -0500 (EST)
        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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