Impact Driver Vs MCB

[Dustydazzler]

This sparks made me laugh , uses his 18v impact to do all the final board connections....

But had to reach for his normal screwdriver to do the Rcbo as his impact bit wouldn't fit in the narrow terminal

 

[TheConduitKing]

This sparks made me laugh , uses his 18v impact to do all the final board connections....

But had to reach for his normal screwdriver to do the Rcbo as his impact bit wouldn't fit in the narrow terminal

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[nicebutdim]

This sparks made me laugh , uses his 18v impact to do all the final board connections....

But had to reach for his normal screwdriver to do the Rcbo as his impact bit wouldn't fit in the narrow terminal

Funnily enough I was watching that Artisan video someone posted last night & noticed them struggling to mount an enclosure with a 2" bit on the impact driver. Youtube sparks must not have cottoned on to 6" bits.

 

[plugsandsparks]

I use a hammer and large flat blade for getting difficult to access gland nuts but never even thought of using an impact driver on ANY electrical terminal, where did the practice even originate from ?

 

[nicebutdim]

I use a hammer and large flat blade for getting difficult to access gland nuts but never even thought of using an impact driver on ANY electrical terminal, where did the practice even originate from ?

Lazy people with no mechanical sympathy.

 

[Zerax]

I think we should be careful to differentiate between 'impact drivers' and 'cordless screwdrivers'... My main cordless that I use all the time, has torque settings on it... so it's very possible to dial that down to do the initial run up of breaker screws. I don't use mine for that of course... I've got the Bosch cordless screwdriver that's permanently set a low torque for that purpose... with a proper torque screwdriver for the final tightness.

...just saying

 

[Dustydazzler]

Lazy people with no mechanical sympathy.

I would say site sparks on price who get paid per flat or per house who want to smash out a board in an hour

 

[Dustydazzler]

I think we should be careful to differentiate between 'impact drivers' and 'cordless screwdrivers'... My main cordless that I use all the time, has torque settings on it... so it's very possible to dial that down to do the initial run up of breaker screws. I don't use mine for that of course... I've got the Bosch cordless screwdriver that's permanently set a low torque for that purpose... with a proper torque screwdriver for the final tightness.

...just saying

Yes you can use a small low torque battery drill to wind up all the screws and then do round with a screwdriver to 'tweak up' the terminals

But most guys I have seen us an impact as you can clearly hear that rat a tat tat that an impact makes as it hammers down the screw

 

[Dave OCD]

Just another example of idiots taking over the world. It's pretty sad really.

 

[UNG]

The problem is for every type of screw head that is produced there is an impact bit to fit it, so do consumer unit screws need to be of a unique patented type that prevents the manufacture of impact bits. Might also limit the DIY brigade doing CU swaps