This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. After testing the Ridgid Impact Wrench (GEN5X Brushless model), I feel like I’ll never hand tighten any bolt with a ratchet again. You know the drill, reaching around, trying to find the nut with a crescent wrench at best, or, more likely, a pair of pliers or channel locks, while you hand-tighten a 5/8” bolt through a tight pre-drilled opening of a truss you are trying to fabricate. All while 16 feet in the air on a sketchy ladder, the 2×6’s pinching. You cuss as you reach for your hammer to punch the bolt through the wood, barely hanging on to the ratchet, wrench, washers and bolts. It gets better. Read on… Read More
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Ridgid Quiet Compressor Review – Give Your Nailers The Silent Treatment
In case you’ve spent the past few years in a galaxy far, far away, the trend in the tool industry is toward a cordless job site. Banish all those pesky extension cords and hoses RIGHT NOW, dammit! While that idea has a lot of merit, the reality is that there are a LOT of tools in use that still rely on those pesky cords and hoses. I have a fair bit of money invested in several pneumatic nail guns, ranging from 23-ga. pinners to framing nailers, that still have a lot of life left in them. This means I’ll be schlepping a compressor around, at least some of the time, for the foreseeable future. On the bright side, the arrival of a Ridgid Quiet Compressor may mean that I won’t scare the neighbors three blocks over every time I fire that sucker up. Read More
