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Oops - broken Snap-On impact wrench
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Must be the Snap-OFF impact!
AZjeff
$50 Site Donor 2023
Opps? Maybe OOPS! Wonder how old that gun is?
Take it to Harbor Freight. They might give you something for it as a display.
I had that gun circa 1984, IIRC it was a IM 510. Check out the small hammer mechanism.
so you would turn it up to 150psi? looks sorta small for that commercial vehicle he is working on.
It is small for that job, turning up the air to 150 psi didn't help much with those old impacts, IIRC that one had about 320 ft.lb. The later IR 231 was a big upgrade from that one with 450 ft.lb but still small for those lug nuts. A larger double D handle impact would probably have been used back then. The torque numbers were real back then not the nut busting numbers they use for advertising today, but the tools were still weak compared to today's.
If I posted this thread, it would be closed for having no words to go with the picture. Also, using a 1/2 inch drive impact where 1 inch drive should be used is never a good idea. Now tell me Snapon warrantied it.
..or replaced. Does Snap-on put their name on rebuilt tools?
I doubt they will. We had a coworker who had a Snap On box wrench that broke, that was over 20 years old, and the guy in the truck wouldn't replace it. And he was the original owner.
All he ever used it for was to tighten and loosen a drawbar on a Bridgeport mill. So another happy Harbor Freight customer was created.
