nitrocat impacts
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nitrocat impacts
http://www.tooltopia.com/index.asp?P...D&ProdID=36675
I was thinking of getting this one. Does anybody have any experience with it
I was thinking of getting this one. Does anybody have any experience with it
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I don't have any experience with that impact but if it performs like they say that would make a nice gun. I may have to put one of those in my tool box also. Looks like a pretty good find to me.
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I'd probably stay away if I were you:
http://reviews.ebay.com/Air-Cat-Airc...:-1:LISTINGS:1
I have settled on the IR 2115TI. I've heard nothing but good about it from professional mechanics and fabricators. IR seems to be the current leader in the Impact department.
http://reviews.ebay.com/Air-Cat-Airc...:-1:LISTINGS:1
I have settled on the IR 2115TI. I've heard nothing but good about it from professional mechanics and fabricators. IR seems to be the current leader in the Impact department.
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I can find one bad review on the very best of equipment! I think I would need a little more proof/reviews before I completely wrote it off as a piece of junk. It is definitly worth checking into though as nobody wants to spend 200 bones on a poorly built tools!
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Originally Posted by Crash687
Buy the IR 2135Ti, it might be a bit on the pricey size but it produces up to 1000 ft lbs. in reverse and is light.
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Originally Posted by ATC Crazy
THIS is a review of the one he's interested in:
http://reviews.ebay.com/Tool-buying-...00000002174510
Do you see the difference? The 1/2 Nitrocat is entirely different than the 3/8, and nearly every mechanic I know has recommended them over the IR. I went ahead and bought one last year and am exceptionally happy with it.
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I just don't understand why people go overseas for anything. America makes the best stuff period! Get an I/R and you will never have to worry about it.
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I have always believed in buying American as well and when I have a choice I will by American. These days it's getting harder and harder to buy American for certain items, with many of the US companies themselves producing there goods in other countries like China and Mexico. Even IR sells a line of air compressors at Tractor Supply that have Chinese made pumps on them. American car window stickers have a listing for "Percent US Content" and no US made car is 100% American. I was told buy someone who worked for GM that the highest US content vehicle made in America is only about 70% US Made. You have foreign cars being built in the US and US products being built in other countries. The whole idea of buying American is no longer black and white, but various shades of grey. All this being said, I will still try to buy American when I have the choice, the job you save may be your own.
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I know it is difficult to seperate the shades of grey But when you buy from an american company the profits go to fuel OUR economy regardles of where the product is actually assembled.
When you buy from a foreign company your money goes to prosper a forign government. Free enterprise makes our business work. You must turn a profit or you are dead. In most foreign countries if you cannot make a profit the government will subsidise you and it becomes very hard for us to compete.
I am not trying to hijack this thread but I had to vent.
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When you buy from a foreign company your money goes to prosper a forign government. Free enterprise makes our business work. You must turn a profit or you are dead. In most foreign countries if you cannot make a profit the government will subsidise you and it becomes very hard for us to compete.
I am not trying to hijack this thread but I had to vent.
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Well so far I have not come across a 1/2 impact that really blows me away. I have a Snap On XT 7100 it is a bit bulky and I am having trouble with the steel spring and magnesium case in the trigger valve sticking but it has lasted longer then the Mac/IR. The Mac impact which was a IR 2135 Ti it needed its first rebuild 10 months in. And my 200 dollar CP 1/2 drive broke in one month. So try a Nitrocat because no one has really impressed me yet. But I guess Snap On is coming out with a new 1/2 impact shortly my rep and I are going to have a long talk about me being a test subject with the Xt 7100. Good luck and let me know how you if like your Nitrocat.
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i have a ir 231 1/2" impact 7 yrs old and have never had any problems with it and have used it hard daily and it will break a 3/4" bolt in half with no problem it comes down to the old saying you get what you pay for and i hate blowing money 3 times when it would have been cheaper to buy the better one the first time
and as far as a rebuild mine has never needed one and wont for a long time
and as far as a rebuild mine has never needed one and wont for a long time
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i have 2 ir impacts. one about 6years old. the other is about 2years old. both are great. the tnt is light, very powerfull and quiet. the old one is loud as hell but works great. not as much power as the tnt but still 650ft/lbs which is enough for most things. i would stick with ir. a quality product.
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I bought a IR 2135 Ti 2 years ago on ebay and it still works great. ($208) It said on it "assembled in USA" I was looking at Aircat but the warranty center was in Seattle or someplace, couldn't waste my time waiting around for it to be repaired if it needed it.
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