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hey hey new 18v electric impact came in my hot little hands today [roll]

the new improved one apparently. magnesium nose cone, all steel gears, 617ftlbs breakout, 400ftlbs drive. I'm gonna keep it in my service truck for those stupid places with no air or power. but will be **** handy for my weekend warrior duties [guitar] might look at the 3/8" drive too later.


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holy friggin crap I just looked at US pricing .... Very nice unit

That is darn nice Luke.. I could only dream of such nice things...LOL...

Luke, speaking as a former snapon dealer, your dealer must love you. [laugh]

Nice stuff buddy, I'm jealous.[coffee]

Ah it was on sale. and believe me its getting put to work in the field. I'm still nursin the blister on my left hand from my ratchet from thursday in the new south calgary hospital powerhouse.


lemme tell you guys theres 10 MTU 20v4000 gens in there for a total of 27 mega watts power production on the hospital site.

Wow that is some big numbers Luke. 10 MTU 20v4000 gens that's huge Are you sayin there are 10 units there on stand by ?

yes. theres primary power then backup to backup. all major systems power will come from here not the grid.

ok 10 gens all 20v4000 MTUs

2 - 3.2 megawatt
2 - 2.8 meg
6 - 2.5 meg

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Nice impact gun for sure. My Snap-On dealer has been pushing it on me the last few weeks but for 500 and some odd dollars he can keep it[yuk]. My air impact does me just fine for now.

well see all of my pneumatic impacts combined with all your pneumatics do me no good say when I'm no the 37th fl of the Scotia tower in downtown calgary. when doing the top end of a 30 year old natural gas emergency V-12 cummins generator [eyecrazy]. or on the roof of Chinook shopping center shopping mall working on a 60 year old Waukesha/

you know for instance...........not that I was there or anything [yuk]


I paid less than $500 for this one. but you know my career is using tools. and the 4 hours I was out on an emergency callout thurs night at midnight more than paid for it already.

They should have just put in two gas turbine gen set's. You guys are gonna live at that hospital between servicing and overhauls. How many hours you guys get before you have to rip in and do a top end overhaul? At least you have the hot nurses to look at[laugh]

There lots of standby power units in the downtown Calgary core. At my Nova days, we had a 6meg Allison KB501 gas turbine down at the gas control bunker. It was designed to run for month straight, without a fuel-up. Big fuel tanks I can't remember if it was 5000 gallons or 50000 gallons, they even had re-circulating pump just to keep the fuel from going bad. We can el-cheapo JP3 fuel, a set down from diesel grade. We could go from cold to full load power in less one minute. The batteries keep the place running until the genny came online. The hi voltage stuff is different, I done a few 13k volt gen sets.

Awesome pictures !!! Are those bases cement or epoxy Grout ?

Wow, thats alot of generation. Is this Co-gen stuff? would have to be just for the fuel bill, NG isn't cheap anymore. Mind you they would use less fuel than a turbine..

That impact looks wonderful Luke, one might make a nice addition to my toy collection one day. Please keep us posted with your impressions of it as you use it. I'm curious as to how long it will go on a battery charge.

I am actually excited to put some miles on it. I'll let you know how it works. I will be hard on it we'll see if it stands up.


Mike theres more smaller units to have separate backups. there are regulations for hosptial standby power that are different and more strict than the buildings downtown.

they're all diesel fired engines.

All Diesel? wow..

you betcha. I'm going back to level them all on the isolators. probably monday. I'll try and open one right up.


roxxx.....whats the diference? honestly I don't know, I assume its concrete. but what do I know. Burnco, has put up a mobile batch plant on site. they run 18 wheeler trucks non stop on the site to the big cranes

Just kinda curious. I would have killed to use concrete lol . The epoxy grout was Nasty stuff . I see they didn't even spec chamfers on the corners. Same there we had to make sure all the corners were chamfered on everything we did drove me nuts

Luke, I almost spit iced tea out my nose looking at the torque that unit puts out. That's a hand full of twist. My home garage pneumatic unit(not Snap-On:)) won't do that or the shop beater at work. Keep us in the loop.

I can lend you my first year books, it will tell you difference between the grouts.

1st year millwright books tell you the difference between concrete and epoxy grout?



no I'm good.

Yep, all part of installing and grouting bases. Biggest difference is cost, set time, and concrete grout shrinks as it cures, leaving pockets under the base. The synthetic grout (polymeric I believe its called) sets faster, and doesn't shrink, which adds to stability and strength.

ya thats not my gig..........don't really care if its concrete or lavarock.

Its good to know, especially when it deteriorates and the alignment on the skid goes way out. Of course, its probably running a flexible coupling, and low rpm, so it will be much more tolerant to misalignment than the bigger stuff.

they are flexible couplers and 1800 rpm for all. and for level on the skid if I'm inside 10 degrees on the long and 5 degrees side to side, I'm good. thats MTU spec.

and the 3512 cats we used to run 3 of on each Nabors AC heavy triple.....as long as the shack was on the ground its a runner.

Thats a nice gun, I personally have an IR one, I like it, It has seen lots of use in two years I have had it and held up well.

Luke which method are you using for alignment? Rim/face or parrell bar? Most couplings today can handle alot of misalignment. A hi speed machines are most sensitive to angular missalignment.

I don't think GTG's would be good backup power in a hospital, the guy's on the heart/lung machines wouldn't like the 5-10 minutes it would take to come online

A lot of these gen sets will use a singe bearing generator so there isn't much in the way of alignment like you would have if you were coupled to a compressor/pump etc.

I used a 3/8 one and its nice. I have a milwaukee 18v impact and that thing has good torque and half the price of the snap-on. Haven't used a big one yet but i am curious as to how it turns an old rusted bolt right out or snaps them clean off.

Just wondering how the 1/2 inch impact is holding up. I am now looking at a snap-on one. There seem to be a few different models. But this Milwaukee one looks pretty gnarly.

700 ft lbs and 1100 break away!

One of my mechanic friends told me about the Milwaukee and said it was better than the snap-on. Any thoughts?

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I personally own and used the snap on 3/8 and 1/2 when I worked for waterous on a service truck. We have a full selection on Milwaukee at the mine now though. I would not say they are as strong as the snappys but we abuse the Milwaukees to the extreme at work. They hold up pretty well. Some fail in the first week of use. Others last a long time.

I should be ok then, going with the Milwaukee. As for torque, does the Milwaukee actually seem to have more "jam" than the snapon? My intended use is weekend warrior kinda stuff. I do not make my living with tools like this! Thanks.

No. My personal opinion is the snap on has more balls. I also think it's constructed much better than the Milwaukees.

But the Millie's work fine too.

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