Fixed my old impact

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I’ve been holding sockets on my Mac Tools 1/2” impact for about 22 years.  I bought it from a drunk kid in my high school class for $20.  I imagine his dad whooped him silly when he found out what happened to it.  It’s never had a retainer clip.

 

 

[pacer 3,169]

Hey' Hey.... shoot, I got a HF one with the same prob so I'll give this a try. 

 

Thing may be a HF tool but I've had and used it quite a bit for 10-12 yrs and it still goes.

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47 minutes ago, pacer said:

Hey' Hey.... shoot, I got a HF one with the same prob so I'll give this a try. 

 

Thing may be a HF tool but I've had and used it quite a bit for 10-12 yrs and it still goes.

I got my 10 pack for $8 on Amazon.  I spent the first one trying to figure it all out.  

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I will admit, there was a little magicery in the making of that video.  After 20+ years of no clip being in place, the simple function of cleaning the groove with sand paper was working, but I hooked the impact to another air source, ran it backwards and had a zip tie on the trigger to run slow in a lathe function, then used a little death wheel on the Dotco to clean up the mushrooming that had happened over all that time.  I did however run the sandpaper for about 10 minutes before I thought to clean it up @Achto lathe style.

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Sometimes a redneck lathe is just what the doctor ordered. 

[WHX?? 48,815]

I have a snap off one you have to fight to get the sockets on I should try that. 

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8 hours ago, pacer said:

Thing may be a HF tool but I've had and used it quite a bit

 

The HF Earthquake impact is a bad a$$ tool, in both strength and durability. 

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I hear ya Dan ... the one on the left is the snap off  the one on the right someone threw on the dock at the old shop for scrap. The scrapped one runs circles around the snap off.  The snap off couldn't loosen a a nut from the Hosen's $ack.

Figured if I turned it in would see snap off refurb it under their lifetime warranty??? Guessing not 

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8 hours ago, WHX?? said:

Figured if I turned it in would see snap off refurb it under their lifetime warranty??? Guessing not 

 

No life time warranty on power tools. Least not to my knowledge.

[ri702bill 8,318]

Lifetime warranty - think not. That's life !!!  More like a "Taillight" warranty....

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43 minutes ago, ri702bill said:

a "Taillight" warranty...

As a kid, I grew up a true shadetree with a buddy.  We lived a couple miles from M-44.  We always joked about the 244 guarantee.  Whatever we worked on, it’d at least get ya to 44!

[squonk 41,096]

I bought my Mac tools (IR 231) in 1979 1st week out of college. The hog ring wedged itself into the slot in about a year.  Never replaced it thru 15 years working in dealerships. Still have it and break it out when something (Has to come off!) I have a 20volt Dewalt 1/2" Impact with a push button retainer and it takes a decree by the Pope to get even 44 year old worn out sockets on and off. I find my 3/8" impacts work on just about everything anyway.

 

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20 minutes ago, squonk said:

I bought my Mac tools (IR 231) in 1979 1st week out of college.

like Greasay @peter lena, keep ‘em oiled!