Saturday, May 02, 2015
New Makita 18V Cordless Oil Pulse Driver
toolguyd.com: Glen wrote in with a tip about Makita’s new 18V DTS141 cordless brushless oil pulse impact driver. Calling this an impact driver isn’t perfectly accurate, as the driver doesn’t have the same basic hammer and anvil driving mechanism design as other impacts. It’s more of an impulse driver, which is a name that could definitely grow on me.
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What a great article to have on this site! I was talking to Ben Carter the other day about why we do not use any impact drivers in the shop and he said because they are too loud. That makes a lot of sense because if 10 people are using impact drivers all at the same time in a closed space that will get really loud. However impact drivers are like expensive headphones or HD TVs, once you try them it is hard to go back. Impact drivers are just so powerful and have great driving speeds and torque that it would make building in our shop easier. Now with this quitter impact driver on the market (soon) maybe we can hope to see them in our shop. According to the product description these drivers are going to be stronger than other impact drivers on the market but the loss of the impact action happening in the motor is a big difference and I am sure the engineers know what they are doing but as a layman to tool building it seems like these will have less torque.
I’ve always been a fan of Makita screw guns, and so naturally I’m pretty glad to see that they’re still working to make their products better. There are plenty of nice features on this impact driver that should be sure to add up to make it a really nifty tool. It looks to be a really small gun, so it would be great to get into the tighter corners that so often leave me frustrated, and it claims to be lower noise, which is always a plus when there’s so many things making noise during a build already. The feature that looks really nice though is the self tapping screw function. Self tapping screws are awesome when you’re in a pinch, but they’re a pain to install. If the feature works as well as it claims, then it should be a really nice option to have on an impact driver.
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