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psipsyAwhile ago I got a Swench 750 off ebay. It's a manual impact wrench, which means it runs entirely on elbow grease, rather than compressed air or electricity. It's made of steel and testosterone, with not a spit of plastic.
It's different from a torque multiplier that uses simple gear reduction. This uses a spring to store up the energy that's then unloaded all at once at a certain point, so it's closer to an air/electric that uses stored rotational energy to do the same thing.
What can it do? The one I have is capable of putting out as much as 800 ft-lbs of torque with only 50 lbs of effort on the handle. It's also adjustable so it's not running at full strength the whole time. That said, I put it on the lowest setting when I tried it on some lug nuts, which came off with one or two hits.
Meanwhile, I put an SSD into my laptop. I opted to do a full and proper install of Windows instead of cloning what's on the old hard drive. The OS install itself took maybe 15 minutes; putting in all the drivers and updates and programs took hours.
I'm still overdue for a new phone. I'm ok with this though. Top contender so far is the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. What puts that at the top of the list? It's supposedly water-resistant. I might wait until after the road trip though, mostly because they keep coming out with updated phones every other week. This is the sort of thing where I can't just go to the site, click "buy" and wait for it to show up; I have to see it in person. I have to grok it in person. I'm picky about my gadgets that way.
Now that both of my cars have integrated USB power adapters, I don't need the flimsy lighter adapters that are made of fail. I bench-tested one under load. It could keep up with my phone, but under a simulated load of two phones (about 1A), it crapped out. The ones I built? Rock solid up to 3A, as advertised. Although it did get hot with that much. But at more normal levels, it was only warm to the touch.
Oof. Yeah.
It's different from a torque multiplier that uses simple gear reduction. This uses a spring to store up the energy that's then unloaded all at once at a certain point, so it's closer to an air/electric that uses stored rotational energy to do the same thing.
What can it do? The one I have is capable of putting out as much as 800 ft-lbs of torque with only 50 lbs of effort on the handle. It's also adjustable so it's not running at full strength the whole time. That said, I put it on the lowest setting when I tried it on some lug nuts, which came off with one or two hits.
Meanwhile, I put an SSD into my laptop. I opted to do a full and proper install of Windows instead of cloning what's on the old hard drive. The OS install itself took maybe 15 minutes; putting in all the drivers and updates and programs took hours.
I'm still overdue for a new phone. I'm ok with this though. Top contender so far is the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. What puts that at the top of the list? It's supposedly water-resistant. I might wait until after the road trip though, mostly because they keep coming out with updated phones every other week. This is the sort of thing where I can't just go to the site, click "buy" and wait for it to show up; I have to see it in person. I have to grok it in person. I'm picky about my gadgets that way.
Now that both of my cars have integrated USB power adapters, I don't need the flimsy lighter adapters that are made of fail. I bench-tested one under load. It could keep up with my phone, but under a simulated load of two phones (about 1A), it crapped out. The ones I built? Rock solid up to 3A, as advertised. Although it did get hot with that much. But at more normal levels, it was only warm to the touch.
Oof. Yeah.
