3/8 Brushless inpact gun when?

Does anybody know it Makita is making a 3/8 impact gun soon. I have both the 1/2 smaller and Larger impacts.

Only one I know of is the makita  XWT06Z and it’s an older one but only one I can find 🙂 merry Christmas

Might be able to get an 3/8″ drive and swap it out on the conpact


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Milwaukee is the only tool company that seems to have a full depth of Impact Wrenches.

DR99 wrote:

Milwaukee is the only tool company that seems to have a full depth of Impact Wrenches.

All a compact impact impact wrench is an impact driver with a different anvil, but for some reason the other companies are slow or won’t make one.

DR99 wrote:

2 hours ago, DR99 said:

Milwaukee is the only tool company that seems to have a full depth of Impact Wrenches.

Its not like it is hard to make a 3/8 impact. Dewalt just released a brushless 3/8 this year. They act like there is hardly any demand or something.

NicholasShetley wrote:

Its not like it is hard to make a 3/8 impact. Dewalt just released a brushless 3/8 this year. They act like there is hardly any demand or something.

JimboS1ice wrote:

40 minutes ago, JimboS1ice said:

They did?


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Yeah and I think they just did what you did with your brushless impact driver and swapped the anvil. They didn’t give it any extra power like Milwaukee or makita did with their compact impact wrenches. Here is the link to it on the dewalt website. http://www.dewalt.com/en-us/products/power-tools/impact-drivers-and-wrenches/20v-max-xr-38-compact-impact-wrench-bare/dcf890b

JimboS1ice wrote:

They did?


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DPSElias wrote:

36 minutes ago, DPSElias said:

 

Yea they did? I’m really thinking of buying into the M18 line as I like the amount of tools they offer and I already have a decent amount of their M12 line

 

Do it, between the lighting, impacts and the misc tools…it’s a great line to buy into. Also it has a huge secondary market, you should never have to pay retail for a new battery(and I’m not talking about knockoff batteries). Pretty much anyone that sees my Milwaukee stuff want to buy in, some are leaving Snap On for impact wrenches…M18 has better power and cheaper.  

NicholasShetley wrote:

Yeah and I think they just did what you did with your brushless impact driver and swapped the anvil. They didn’t give it any extra power like Milwaukee or makita did with their compact impact wrenches. Here is the link to it on the dewalt website. http://www.dewalt.com/en-us/products/power-tools/impact-drivers-and-wrenches/20v-max-xr-38-compact-impact-wrench-bare/dcf890b

I own most of Milwaukee’s impact wrenches for work they are Badass? And that’s coming from a Dewalt fanboy to ? The 2763 is my beast and love using it anytime I can to show that bad boy off 

I would hope that Makita releases a 3/8 impact wrench in both the 10.8 and 18v 🙂

Like what they did with their ‘ sub compact ‘ black drill and impact driver.

kornomaniac wrote:

4 hours ago, kornomaniac said:

I would hope that Makita releases a 3/8 impact wrench in both the 10.8 and 18v 🙂

 

Like what they did with their ‘ sub compact ‘ black drill and impact driver.

I’m sure they could easily pull it off

BMack37 wrote:

10 hours ago, BMack37 said:

 

Do it, between the lighting, impacts and the misc tools…it’s a great line to buy into. Also it has a huge secondary market, you should never have to pay retail for a new battery(and I’m not talking about knockoff batteries). Pretty much anyone that sees my Milwaukee stuff want to buy in, some are leaving Snap On for impact wrenches…M18 has better power and cheaper.  

Also the Snap On warranty is pretty horrible 1 year on the tool and battery. That’s pretty bad in today’s cordless world

DR99 wrote:

43 minutes ago, DR99 said:

Also the Snap On warranty is pretty horrible 1 year on the tool and battery. That’s pretty bad in today’s cordless world

Hell my ryobi drills all came with 3yr warranties

I know snap on is worried because they are use in a commercial environment but still the prices they charge it should be 3 years no questions asked warranty

Snap on has currently become cheap imported garbage with little warranty coverage and they will still charge you for it like Jesus Christ made them himself, not Jesus Gomez-Garcia and a 12 year old taiwanese boy. Snap on is total horseshit. I’m done with them. I’ll stick to proto gearwrench and sunex. At least their important crap doesn’t come with the pretention that it will cure your hemmeroids if you stick it up your ass.

Stercorarius wrote:

8 minutes ago, Stercorarius said:

Snap on has currently become cheap imported garbage with little warranty coverage and they will still charge you for it like Jesus Christ made them himself, not Jesus Gomez-Garcia and a 12 year old taiwanese boy. Snap on is total horseshit. I’m done with them. I’ll stick to proto gearwrench and sunex. At least their important crap doesn’t come with the pretention that it will cure your hemmeroids if you stick it up your ass.

Nice descriptions!! 😀

I think Snap On is using one of the European companies for their power tools. I can’t remember which one(Hilti maybe)…which they overcharge for.

I have used the newest snap on “high” torque 18v impact wrench and it isn’t impressive at all. One of my classmates in tech school had one and there were countless times he had to grab my Milwaukee to get the job done. There is no hiding that the Mikwaukee blows the snap on out of the water in every way. It isn’t worth it at the student price and it damn sure isn’t worth it at full price. 

been waiting for an official dewalt brushless 3/8 i/wrench for a while now. i have even done the dcf886 anvil swap ( credits to Jimbo ) just to say i have a 3/8 brushless wrench. at my work i have 4 impacts in the 20v dewalt line-up. 2 of which are wrenches. the older 883 and the 886 anvil swap. i need multiples because i have to deal with multiple size fasteners and time is money. switching sockets constantly on the same impact is a nuisance for me.  

as for this new brushless 3/8 wrench. on paper it looks identical to the 886 with just an anvil swap but at PREMIUM price. acmetools.com has it listed at $179 as just a bare tool. that is very high. if it truly is the 886 with a different anvil, you could have this at a much lower price if you dont mind doing the jimbo hack. i could also be totally wrong and there has been an improvement in the guts of the gun. 

would really love to see jimbo buying this and doing a side by side comparison to his 886 hack….. but at $179, i doubt it. 

Where do you get that 3/8 anvil for the 886 again jimbo  or anyone  that knows

Do we know if it works with the 887 yet?

My all time favorite 3/8 impact was the M12 fuel. That thing was honestly the most useful, ergonomic, and convenient tool I’ve ever used. It’s on my list to replace right after an 899 and Metabo grinder.

Stercorarius wrote:

Just now, Stercorarius said:

Do we know if it works with the 887 yet?

My all time favorite 3/8 impact was the M12 fuel. That thing was honestly the most useful, ergonomic, and convenient tool I’ve ever used. It’s on my list to replace right after an 899 and Metabo grinder.

I was thinking  about trying  it with my 887 wondering  the same thing  definitely  would  get more ass out of it 

joemontague wrote:

1 hour ago, joemontague said:

I was thinking  about trying  it with my 887 wondering  the same thing  definitely  would  get more ass out of it 

theoretically you would get a little more torque from the socket connection itself over the 1/4″ hex

JimboS1lice  do you think it would  work  with  the 887

joemontague wrote:

JimboS1lice  do you think it would  work  with  the 887

The dcf890 is pretty dissapointing if you ask me.  Why have we waited so long for dewalt to release this? If all dewalt was going to do was take a 886 and do a Jimbo swap with the anvil, why not release it years ago.  If they had released it a couple years ago it may have satisfied me and many others and kept us from jumping ship to milwaukee.  But at this point it’s just a so so powered impact wrench with no speed controls.  Also why is there no 1/2 compact brushless.  The 899 is too heavy and overkill for most of my work and the carriage bolts that work with every day require a 1/2 deepwell socket, a 3/8dw just isn’t deep enough.  I’ve been hearing for years from my dewalt tool guy “oh yea brushless impact wrenches are coming.” I guess at this point I was just hoping for more. Glad I’m happy with my fuel wrenches, but being a tool nut I gotta have them all.

for the few that were wondering if an anvil swap works on the 887, it certainly does. i was kind of hesitant on cannibalizing my old 883 just for the anvil but i was going to throw the 883 away anyways if it worked and im glad that it does. 

few things i have noticed. the original anvil on the 887 is trash. there is significant wobble on alot of them. some worse than others. before i took mine apart i put it side by side to my other that i got when it first released and my original still has less wobble than the new one that i just got. and i beat the heck out of my original.

after the anvil swap, it feels way more secure. 

another thing was is that i had to take the clam shell off 2nd time cuase the 3 speed selector was super sloppy when i put it back together the 1st time. i looked at it after taking it apart the 2nd time and noticed a clip that needs to be pushed in all the way in the handle and also making sure u do the same for the selector. make sure its put back on speed 1. 

all in all this didn’t cost me very much. an older 883 that i got as a free gift from a combo deal. and a new 887 that i also just got from another combo deal. no other parts are needed other than just the anvil for those that are interested. it is just 1 extra step from jimbo’s anvil swap trick which is making sure the 3 speed selector is set back to 1 and making sure the clip that moves side to side is also depressed all the way back so the clam shell can be fully seated back. 

i get to have a pretty much same performance as the new brushless model that is coming out + 3 speeds but totally worthless almost on a wrench but for way cheaper. only time will tell if it will hold up. 

I just use my 1/4 hex impacts with the squaredrive bits the makita gold 3/8 is my favorite or my industrial Apex bits they are rock solid but have the pin lock detects instead of ball and you have to use a pocket screwdriver to get them off. Also use my matco 1/2 with a reducer. I have a Hilti and makita impact driver I thought they already make the 3/8 I got the Lee’s tool app for makita and I thought I saw them. I also like to use my 7.2v snap on screw guns and 1/4 impact they are about the size of a small pistol like a 9mm and are light weight and strong.

I know this is an old topic but I was watching a youtube video and a guy was comparing a dcf890 to a dcf887.  The guy claims the 887 with a 3/8″ adaptor kills the 890 which got me thinking and brought me back to this topic.  You can pick up a 887 on ebay for $80 and a 3/8″ anvil for $30 so you can do an anvil swap for pretty cheap.  My one concern is anytime I’ve put a socket adaptor on a impact driver and use it with medium sized bolts I never like the sounds that come from inside.  Its like you get a strange poping noise different than just the anvil impacting.  I don’t really know what these sounds are because anytime I’ve ever had a impact driver or impact wrench apart the internals seem to be almost identical.  

I guess my question is to anyone that’s done one of these anvil swap modifications.  How have they held up overtime?  Another question is does anyone know if the internals in a compact impact wrench are somehow built heavier than an impact driver, besides the obvious of different gearing or different size motor.  

Well I cheaped out and just took an old 886 to do the 3/8″ anvil swap.  So far so good, did a little testing with a 1/2″ bolt, washer, lock washer, and nut set up.  I compared it with a dcf880, dcf887 with 1/4″ to 3/8″ adapter and a fuel 2654.  On a 1/2″ bolt (3/4″ socket) there was no real noticeable difference between any of them.  None of them could tighten the bolt to the point where another couldn’t take it off.  

Just wanted to share to answer the original posters question…

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