Talk:Impact wrench
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[edit] Google Book links
I've never used google books to look up technical information. I list some links here to see if you can access them to determine if they are any good.
-- Royalbroil T : C 04:06, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
- I can't view them, but from the little text snippets it gave in the search, I'll count them as likely ok... Thanks! Bushytails 05:54, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
It is misstatement to say that an impact wrench "delivers" torque. Forces travel in straight lines. Torque is alway a resultant and never a force. Mik Hamilton
Mik this is an encyclopedia article about a power tool not physics. Take the jargon in context.71.112.30.41 03:15, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
- Funny, I only had 3 years of physics, but I seem to remember there not being any problem referring to torque as a force... and a quick check gives definitions like "torque 'rotating force,' 1884, from L. torquere 'to twist'" and "torque (tôrk) n. A turning or twisting force." I see no problem here. How would you rather word it? Bushytails 03:45, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Two conflicting articles...
On the page about socket wrenches, there is this statement: "Standard sockets are made of a strong, but brittle steel. When used with an impact wrench they can shatter explosively if they break. These sockets are made of a weaker, but more malleable steel that will deform and split instead of shattering."
Yet on this page about impact wrenches, it states that impact sockets are made of hard metal. Anyone know what's going on? 68.114.35.228 21:13, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
