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Post by nastytroll »

Trade tools sell SP air I have a 3/4 drive SP 950 f/lb $465 and about $25 for the 3/4 to 1/2 reducer, its a good unit
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Post by Mick. »

mud_runner_GQ wrote:what kinda price you looking at?? as you can get a really good one from blue point for arounf $300, i had one and traded it for the top of the line Snapon gun which was almost $900. but boy it was worth it! :twisted:
I've got a blue point one which i've had for 10 years and it's never missed a beat. I just recently bought the new Snap On electric (cordless) rattle gun and it leaves my blue point air one for dead. It came with 2 batteries and a torch.

They might be dear but atleast you can pay them off. :armsup:

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Post by balzackracing »

jeep97tj wrote:http://www.irtools.com/IS/product.asp-en-2860

This is the gun i use, very nice gun. The work shop also has one that everyone can use, so u can imagen how that gets treated but yet it still goes strong, I dont think i have ever seen anyone oil it.

http://www.irtools.com/IS/product.asp-en-2863

This one looks like the go next time :cool: :cool:
I'm a diesel fitter with hastings deering CAT in the bowen basin mining area. I have a CP guns, blue point guns, snap-on guns and as far as bang for your buck goes, the IR 2135 shits over all my other guns to the point that I sold both my snap-on 3/4" and 1" drive guns and bought IR guns. All of the BMA and Rio Tino mines carry them in their tool stores too because they last so bloody long.
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Post by chunks »

We have 3 Wurth 1/2 guns (i think they may be made by Ingersol Rand) and one brand new Snap-On 1/2 gun at work. The Wurth ones are light, powerful and quiet which is good when you are using them all day everyday. The Snap-On one is a heavy, noisy, awkward waste of $600 and will be getting traded in very soon. We have had one of the Wurth ones for over 5 years now and it never misses a beat.
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Post by droopypete »

I have both Ingersoll Rand and Sidchrome, the IR was a lot more $$$, I would assume it will last longer than the Sidchrome (both are great to use) but if it justifies the extra cost I can't say, well not until one of them shits it self :)

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Post by OISTA »

I use a Chicago Pneumatics at work. Never had a drama of any sort with it. Got it for about $180-190.
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Post by Guy »

Mine would be used perhaps a dozen days a year. so it is very hard to justify spending mega $$. I had a scorpion rattle gun purchased for me by a well meaning wife, but it is junk .. does not even make a decent club to bash a bolt off.

The sidchrome seems to be well priced for the back yard wannabe such as myself ( I am sure if I was in a trade that needed powerful reliable air tools spending several hundred $$ on a really flash unit would be justifiable)
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Post by hammey »

I picked up a 1/2'' drive blue point gun at a pawn shop for 70 bucks.... :armsup:
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Post by Rilux »

Those really high ft/lb of torque...I think are the reverse rating...and you need 110PSI up to actually get to that... which is basically a workshop pressure...

Any old gun will do around the house, but SP air have some cheap little good ones, or a cheap Sidchrome
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