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| If you can’t afford, or justify to your partner, a dedicated repeating screwdriver, this attachment will fit many standard drill drivers. |
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| The beauty of this tool cannot be overstated. I so very much wish I’d had one when I built all the decks out at my farm. |
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| Impact Driver |
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| Porter Cable Cordless Impact Wrench |
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| In recent years lightweight impact drivers have become popular, and people say they are better. These are not impact wrenches: they are nowhere near strong enough. Instead they are meant for driving ordinary screws, they just do it by a combination of spinning in the ordinary way when the going is easy, and hammering once resistance builds up. I have not used them much, so I can’t say if this is as good an idea as some claim. |
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| Impact Driver |
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| Screws for repeating screwdrivers come in coils very much like those used for roofing nails. This coil holds about 170 screws, enough to screw down a dozen 8-foot deck boards with two screws every 16 inches. |
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| The sign that a tool shaped like a drill is actually a screwdriver is in the chuck. It has none. Instead there is a socket that accepts the universally standard ¼-inch hexagonal screwdriver bits. |
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| Modern screw guns look very much like modern drills or drill/drivers, but only when they are on the very high end of the size/power scale. This heavy-duty drywall screwdriver is meant for continuous heavy use, and it’s pretty close to the end of its economic life. Cordless versions are far more convenient, and with multiple batteries can keep going all day. |
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| Electric Impact Driver |
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