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Skil 7.2-Volt 1/4" Drive Cordless Power Wrench
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Product: 1x Skil 2372-01 7.2V Cordless Lithium-Ion 1/4" Power Wrench

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These types of items never seem work as well as they are intended...

These things don't seem to have the best reviews on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Skil+Cordless+Power+Wrench&x=0&y=0

Not many reviews from Buzzillions too.
http://www.buzzillions.com/x/s?N=4294811422&D=x&cat=&extra=product_reviews&Ntt=Skil+2372-01+7.2V+Cordless+Wrench+

I'd almost certainly would take one if someone were to hand it to me for new and for free, but for $23? I don't think so. Although it might be cool to see how it does with rusted-on nuts and so forth.

A power wrench and a saw on sellout? Woot is themed. :p

I bought one of these a while back. I was not very effective and not too long after I got it, it was dead. Not too happy at all on this one. It wasn't any more powerful than just doing the work by hand and because of the size most jobs still can't be done with it.

Unbelievable! I was just at Home Depot today looking for this very thing. Thanks Woot!

For automotive work this is going to just be a time & money waster. At 7.2 volts it's not going to have near enough torque to remove many bolts. Yes it could remove some, maybe, but it would be dead in short order and you have to grab a real wrench.

This would probably be ok for backing out most screws! With the low torque and speed you wouldn't strip out screws as fast a a good 12-18 volt drill/driver.

I'd rather just have a good socket wrench then this.

YMMV

yea a power wrench just means that when you try to torque the bolt on, the motor gives way and doesn't stick heh.

i bought a husky zero angle ratchet a couple of years ago and it works great for most jobs. it works like a normal ratchet most of the time, but you can also twist the handle like a screwdriver motion and it will rotate the drive. good for tight spaces where you've already untorqued the bolt/nut but normal ratchet pulling action and just need to get it unthreaded with the twisting screwdriver motion.

i dont use this oftem if i was into construction business i will probably get it., i waited

I would have bought one of these 2 weeks ago.. I needed screwdrivers and nut drivers then.

hysonmb wrote:I bought one of these a while back. I was not very effective and not too long after I got it, it was dead. Not too happy at all on this one. It wasn't any more powerful than just doing the work by hand and because of the size most jobs still can't be done with it.

Speaking of which, no matter how you do it, in order to "wrench" something, you've got to apply a sufficient number of inch-pounds for the minimum period of time, right? Well, in this case, it is "producing" the inches, but you still have to hold the body of the device with -at-least- as much force as you would if you were using a manual wrench. The only difference is that you'd be providing static torque (from you and your arm's point of view) vs. if you were turning a manual wrench.

Or am I just plain confoozled?

jessiebyrd004 wrote:These things don't seem to have the best reviews on Amazon.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Skil+Cordless+Power+Wrench&x=0&y=0

Not many reviews from Buzzillions too.
http://www.buzzillions.com/x/s?N=4294811422&D=x&cat=&extra=product_reviews&Ntt=Skil+2372-01+7.2V+Cordless+Wrench+

Link the actual product, not the retinker from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Skil-2372-01-7-2-Volt-Li-Ion-Wrench/product-reviews/B000P7MAGU/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

Wow...what a great deal ($50 at Ace Hardware). 3 reviews on Buzzillions...a little mixed.

http://www.buzzillions.com/dz_642517_skill_bosch_power_tool_co_skil_7.2_volt_reviews

looks like its 14.99 refurbished at:

http://www.overstock.com/Home-Garden/Skil-7.2V-Lithium-Ion-Power-Wrench-Refurbished/2993471/product.html?cid=128277&fp=F&srccode=cii_9324560&cpncode=24-25579016-2

I bought 1 for around the same price 1 year ago at Home Depot (last one on the clearance table). I've used it ~ a dozen times over the past year. Works well. Put together my dining room table and other miscellaneous projects. I have no complaints so far.

If you are too lazy to use a socket set or just have the need for tools, this may suffice. I enjoy mine.

I hate to say anything is useless, but this comes pretty durn close, I'm afraid. For most households, you might use this a couple times a year, and even then, by the time you figured out where you stuck the tool parts (hello, manufacturer, you make it so we can hang the charger, why not a place to hang the pieces?), you might as well have just grabbed the socket set and been done with it.

For commercial projects, you'd be far happier with a good commercial tool. It's /so/ slow in operation. And the ratchet like orientation is great for tight spaces, well, unless you want to use a real ratchet that can get into even tighter spaces.

Ninety percent of woot tools are very useful, but this one's a dud. You'll spend more time trying to figure out how to us it, than you would ever save using it.

uncle pennybags wrote:For automotive work this is going to just be a time & money waster. At 7.2 volts it's not going to have near enough torque to remove many bolts. Yes it could remove some, maybe, but it would be dead in short order and you have to grab a real wrench.

This would probably be ok for backing out most screws! With the low torque and speed you wouldn't strip out screws as fast a a good 12-18 volt drill/driver.

I'd rather just have a good socket wrench then this.

YMMV

Agreed - for the bigger fasteners, it's not going to have enough torque, and for the smaller Torx or phillips fasters (like trim fasteners), you'd really rather have something like an electric screwdriver that doesn't have a 90° angle between the handle and the bit.

chacongustavo wrote:i dont use this oftem if i was into construction business i will probably get it., i waited

If you were in construction and you used a POS like this, you'd be the laughing sock of the company.

I bought it. Good price. I have just the kind of jobs it can do, to do, and it carries a one years warranty. If it is going to go bad I can do it to it within that year.

Prior to owning this gem, trying to take my Jeep hardtop off took 10 minutes(because it's not easy to reach the bolts behind the roll-bars) ... now it takes less than 30 seconds. Love it!

"battery holds a charge for up to 18 months"...I haven't charged mine since last spring and worked great two weeks ago.

Spiky wrote:If you were in construction and you used a POS like this, you'd be the laughing sock of the company.

better than being the laughing shoe I figure

Junk!
FT lbs is the proper torque spec not inch. Shrinking the measurement to pump up the stats. It's like measuring your penis in centimeters to make yourself feel better.

bunkerking2k5 wrote:better than being the laughing shoe I figure

Ha!

I have one. When working on my Harley taking the primary off (think a lot of low tq fastners)it was fine,car stuff no.

I agree that these aren't worth a darn for big jobs but it's a 1/4" drive and 1/4" drive of any kind aren't heavy duty. What these are great is for gifts for parents or grandparents with arthritic hands but still like to work with their hands. My father loved his.

Spiky wrote:laughing sock

ooh! nasty! the word confabulator turned s_t_o_c_k into s_o_c_k. I was just about to ask if a laughing sock was anything like a very happy sock puppet...



"Being bipolar is nasty. When you are up, you don't want to go around digging through your tools to find the right one (say a "precision screwdriver") so you go out and buy another set. Which, of course, is a direct waste of money, but it makes digging through your tools even worse the next time."
=== y.f.h.

looks way underpowered for anything you'd want to use it for. PLus it's only 1/4" drive. 3/8" is pretty much minimum for anything automotive. oh and did I mention that it's underpowered? Oh yeah, I guess I did. Looks like it'd run outta juice before you even got started. Really, you want 14V or better

this doesn't work well as a ratchet or anything that needs a good amount of torque but I love mine. It works good for anything that needs a driver that is low profile. I have only used a socket on it once and all I was doing was taking the interior of my car apart. Works good for anything small where there is tons of screws. Defiantly worth this amount of money in my opinion.

A few small adaptions and this could also be used for dental cleanings and repair!

Roberth9000 wrote:this doesn't work well as a ratchet or anything that needs a good amount of torque but I love mine. It works good for anything that needs a driver that is low profile. I have only used a socket on it once and all I was doing was taking the interior of my car apart. Works good for anything small where there is tons of screws. Defiantly worth this amount of money in my opinion.

Hey, congrats on being one of the apparently VERY few who really do get the point of this kind of tool!

It seems pretty obvious to me that those who are ripping this tool over its lack of torque have never actually USED a socket wrench in any kind of real-world situation (by which I mean, on your back, reaching up under and around the engine in your car, where, having broken the !$#%#$% free with your socket wrench, you now spend five minutes skinning your knuckles and straining every muscle in your arm, wrist, shoulder, and back, as you work to ratchet it all the way out ONE CLICK AT A TIME).

That's why I bought one now -- to save what's left of my knuckles. I won't mind breaking a bolt free by hand -- probably with a *bigger* wrench -- and then holding THIS tool over it and letting the motor unwind it, instead of busting up my muscles, joints, and knuckleskin.

What? It only turns at [howevermany] RPM? So? BFD! It'll still be faster than MY one-click-at-a-time back/forth ratchetwork, and did I mention my knuckles? And muscles, joints, spine, etc?

Roberth9000 wrote:this doesn't work well as a ratchet or anything that needs a good amount of torque but I love mine. It works good for anything that needs a driver that is low profile. I have only used a socket on it once and all I was doing was taking the interior of my car apart. Works good for anything small where there is tons of screws. Defiantly worth this amount of money in my opinion.

I work on aircraft and I've used an air driven version of a 1/4" power ratchet and they do have their uses and can come in handy when in tight positions.

You can break free or torque down a screw, bolt or nut by using it like a regular ratchet by you manually ratcheting it back and forth and as the specs said you can get up to around 400"lbs of pressure in that way.

You don't ever use the battery powered motor for breaking something free or for torqueing something down, they aren't made for that and you will likely damage it if you try doing it very often.

The battery mode is for after the item is broke free and you are backing off the item or running that bolt, screw, nut down to where its ready to be torqued.

As I said I've used a air driven version on aircraft and they can be great where clearances are limited and you don't have room to swing a regular ratchet back and forth to loosen or tighten. You just push the button.

I'm in for 2, can't hardly beat the brand either.

A power ratchet weather it is air powered or electric should not be used to break bolts loose or torque them. An impact gun does well to break large bolts loose such as lug nuts. A lot of mechanics use impact guns to install lug nuts, often over torquing them. On any small fasteners you should always break them loose by hand and then use the power tool to remove it. Using power tools to break small fasteners loose will usually just result in broken or stripped bolts. When installing bolts you can use power tools to run the bolt in and then hand tighten it to the proper torque spec. Judging by the reviews people that know how to use this tool properly seem to like it.

kogaku wrote:Hey, congrats on being one of the apparently VERY few who really do get the point of this kind of tool!

It seems pretty obvious to me that those who are ripping this tool over its lack of torque have never actually USED a socket wrench in any kind of real-world situation (by which I mean, on your back, reaching up under and around the engine in your car, where, having broken the !$#%#$% free with your socket wrench, you now spend five minutes skinning your knuckles and straining every muscle in your arm, wrist, shoulder, and back, as you work to ratchet it all the way out ONE CLICK AT A TIME).

That's why I bought one now -- to save what's left of my knuckles. I won't mind breaking a bolt free by hand -- probably with a *bigger* wrench -- and then holding THIS tool over it and letting the motor unwind it, instead of busting up my muscles, joints, and knuckleskin.

What? It only turns at [howevermany] RPM? So? BFD! It'll still be faster than MY one-click-at-a-time back/forth ratchetwork, and did I mention my knuckles? And muscles, joints, spine, etc?

Exactly!

TurboTimer wrote:A power ratchet weather it is air powered or electric should not be used to break bolts loose or torque them. An impact gun does well to break large bolts loose such as lug nuts. A lot of mechanics use impact guns to install lug nuts, often over torquing them. On any small fasteners you should always break them loose by hand and then use the power tool to remove it. Using power tools to break small fasteners loose will usually just result in broken or stripped bolts. When installing bolts you can use power tools to run the bolt in and then hand tighten it to the proper torque spec. Judging by the reviews people that know how to use this tool properly seem to like it.

+1

I could have used this a while back mounting a low profile safe in a cabinet. For the price it looks like a good deal. Just add a 1/4 to 3/8 adapter you have even more uses for it.

cottonmouth116 wrote:Junk!
FT lbs is the proper torque spec not inch. Shrinking the measurement to pump up the stats. It's like measuring your penis in centimeters to make yourself feel better.

Your wrong.

Inch lbs of torque is needed and used for torquing small items like small fasteners on metal skin, etc.

Try converting 30 inch lbs of torque to foot pounds and see what you get.

Show me a ft lbs torque wrench that goes down to 2.5 ft lbs? You won't find one.

Inch lbs is used for torqueing small to medium sized screws, bolts, nuts, etc.

Foot lbs is used for torqueing medium to large sized of the same thing.

On aircraft everthing that is attached has a torque and depending on the items size you will use inch lbs or foot lbs when torqueing them.

cottonmouth116 wrote:Junk!
FT lbs is the proper torque spec not inch. Shrinking the measurement to pump up the stats. It's like measuring your penis in centimeters to make yourself feel better.

Tool? Yeah this makes sense.. so not all bolts can be torqued w/ ft lb settings. I own both a ft and in lb torque wrench and have found to use both on a regular basis working on my bikes. Good try though.

PS Yeah what Bowhunter said..