Surprisingly useful Amazon Tool Purchases

[DFBrews]

Not sure what Amazon has to offer but probably my favorite and most useful tool is my composite IR 3/8 impact. I use that sucker for everything.

They offer it much cheaper than the tool trucks
also gp impact sockets are amazing if anyone is looking.


Grant the Bosch daredevil spade bits love being run on an impact and are much less likely to catch on a knot in a floor joist and smack you in the face like running them in a high torque drill.

[Grant H.]

Honestly, the impact feature doesn?t really engage. When it has... I feel weird saying this, but my dulling and breakage rates seem about the same. I am mostly a Harbor Freight and eBay drill index buyer, though, and backfill broken bits with quality.

Like I said, it's a personal preference thing. I'm coming from a metal fab/production mindset (we manufacture steel products for our industry) and drill bits have a way they like being treated, especially in metal, and LOTS of ways they don't. For the home shop? This is probably 100% good to go. Honestly, most cordless drills spin too fast for drill bits in their high range, but that's where most people use them. Extra heat, poor chip production, no lube, etc all leads to dead drill bits.

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Grant the Bosch daredevil spade bits love being run on an impact and are much less likely to catch on a knot in a floor joist and smack you in the face like running them in a high torque drill.

For wood, I see less of a problem, so that's good to know. Especially since we are adding radiant floor heating to my brothers house and putting the coils into the joist bays means drilling a number of holes.