are you only using on the van??
or you supplying a car battery to use it with

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I have the lxt makita 18v and really rate it.It will undo screws that wont budge with a drill driver and also allows you to drive in long screws with little effort even with your arm outstretched.Ive used this tool to drive selfdrilling screws through catnic type lintels with no problems.Before i had to change to a metal bit and drill a pilot hole.
Its also great for driving masonery fixings directly into brick etc.

As with any impact driver noise is the only minus but its a small negative in comparison to what they can do effortlessly.

Once youve tried one you will wonder how you ever survived without one.No wrist torque,lighter weight and more power than a drill driver.The makita one also has a nifty little led work light which is so useful.

I appreciate that there are some fine power tools available.

Unfortunately there are so many to cater for every job that they create a serious security issue and I prefer to have cheap ones so that if they are pinched then its less annoying.

If you are working in a house where they also have East European decorators and yuo want to go out and get some bits for 40 min then what do you do? Leave it where they may steal it or take it to the B&Q car park where the van can also be broken into to steal it?

My new tool can also be used as intended for undoing tight wheel nuts or hub nuts!

Tony

You aint breaking in my van in a hurry as security is top of the agenda.I fail to understand why so many people have unsecured vans.Even if you dont keep anything in it thieves will still break in causing damage to see if there is anything worth taking.Get a decent strong box inside and alarms ,deadlocks clamlocks etc and you should be ok.Insure your tools whilst in the van too.I know plenty of locksmiths with serious amounts of kit in their vans.An autolocksmith could easily have 50k worth of kit in a van.One keymachine could be at least 6k.

Loads of ways to secure vans up, get your local welder to make you up a steel cage inside it, that way if anyone does force the door the allarm is going off while they have to deal with that.Stick cameras in it too and get a mug shot of who is doing it too.camera link

Not cheap but then neither are your tools.

Do you run it from a car battery how do you use it indoors do you have long leads

It comes with an accessory socket on croc clips! So it can be connected to any spare car battery.

It takes about 8 amps so a small old disguarded car battery is fine.

Its easy for me to make up a 10A 12v power supply so when ( if ) I have a moment I will do that.

Tony

So what jobs did you buy if for,mainly your car?

I bought it primarily to undo seized/tight screws/bolts on gas boilers with the added benefit of undoing car wheel nuts over tightened by the tyre places.

There is even a tyre place in Coventry which advertises outside "Wheel nuts only tightened by hand!" because of the common problem of overtightening to the point the car wheel brace will not undo them if you have a puncture.

Tony