Re: crack open a rusted nut with an impact wrench, from one tank of air?

"Leo Lichtman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is the scenario I picture:  You hook up the impact wrench to the
> pressure tank, carefully calculated to just do the job.  The rusted nut
> is slightly more stubborn than you thought it would be.  The strength of
> the impact wrench decreases steadily as the pressure drops to zero, and
> there you are with fifty pounds of useless tools.  Why not carry a socket
> wrench on a breaker bar, and a "persuader" (piece of pipe)?  Give me
> enough pipe and I can move the world.

Well, unless you split the socket and/or round off the nut :)

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Joe Bramblett, KD5NRH