Milwaukee M12 3⧸8＂ Impact Wrench Punches Above It's Weight

10 years ago, if you'd handed me a tool this small, a 12 volt 3 8ths drive impact wrench, and said that'll put in this 200 millimeter long, that's 8 inches by half inch diameter, or 12 mil, I would have laughed. I would have laughed and said, you're dreaming mate. Look how small this box is. This is probably the smallest box of any power tool I've ever gotten. But who cares about the box. This is not the tool that came in that box. This is the half inch, the first half inch fuel stubby impact wrench from Milwaukee. Nice light tool, pretty powerful, 339 newton meters of nut busting torque and I tested that and it was bang on the button for numbers. But yeah, this thing feels massive and clunky compared to this one that came in that tiny little box. Look how small and cute this thing is. This thing is just so light. How light? 733 grams or in ounces, 2585. Whereas this old half inch 3390 when it comes to ounces and 960 odd when it comes to grams. So about 230 grams heavier than this new 3 8ths inch impact wrench. As you can see, differences over the older models. This one has three LEDs, there is a new improved version of this. This one, like I said, 339 nut busting torque. This little baby on the top here, it's just so much smaller and lighter and nicer feeling in the hand. 305 newton meters. So even though it's like half the size basically and a smaller drive, it's only 34 newton meters less of nut busting torque. So that's pretty impressive. But the new one of these is pretty damn impressive as well. 746 newton meters of nut busting torque. I'll put the foot pounds or inch pounds or some stuff like that on the side. And even though it's cute, you can also buy little clothes for it to make it even cuter. You can get one of these, a little leather jacket. Well, it's more like a, um, well, a rubbery sort of bondage affair. What on earth are you talking about, man? It has three speeds as well as a nut release or bolt release mode, and it has impacts going up to 3600 and speed of 3400 rpms. Variable speed trigger, of course. Got all the usual Milwaukee M12 stuff. Four lights there for the battery. We've got a thread inset on each side for a belt hook, which is obviously still in the box or somewhere. Maybe I've lost it. There's one. That's what it looks like on the other one. Let's put its kinky coat on. You may be thinking, why do I need that on the tool? Isn't it pretty tough? It's not really to protect the tool, to help protect paintwork and things that you might be hitting with this tool while you're working on somebody's car, that sort of thing, because this is very small and great for getting into tight spaces around engine bays and things like that, and it also has another little feature that helps make that a little bit easier, but I'll show you that after we use it for a few things, eh? Because I don't really use it for car stuff. I tend to use impact wrenches more for things like this. I use this with the 5 amp power high output battery and I put in 18 of these 200 mm long concrete screws and the battery lasted until the very last bolt at the end there, and then I had to just chuck the 6 on to finish it, but I was also using that 5 to plane as well in between. I was taking that battery off, chucking it on the planer, so it would have done the job no problem had I not been doing that. So yeah, I'm pretty happy with this thing so far. She's got her little leather jacket on now, or it's more like a rubbery sort of bondage appear, but whatever. So easy with this thing. I'm really loving it. Very capable little tool. And the nifty thing I was talking about is in relation to changing gears on this thing. So when you want to change gears, we're in speed one at the moment, okay, pretty slow. Now I push the button to, push the button to, where's the button to change the thing? No button. So if you're down with this in the engine bay and you think, oh I need a few more beans or a few less beans, just whack with your thumb, the selector here, not necessarily going to be your thumb, might be your finger on the other side depending on which way you're going and whether you're left or right handed, but anyway, whack that into the middle lock position, what would normally be the lock position, double tap the trigger, and we've now jumped up to speed two, double tap, speed three, double tap, bolt release, back to one. How cool is that? You don't need to use your other hand to find a button to push, you can just have your hand down there and go, oh I need to change speed, boom, bang, back into it, boom, change again, back into it. All done with one hand, nice and quick and easy. Took me a little while to get used to that idea, but now that I've gotten used to it, I find it very handy, just very cool. So this was released at the end of last year, and I was meant to make a reel for it for Milwaukee. Milwaukee sent me this, they wanted a video out by Christmas, a reel on Instagram, that's what they wanted, and it's now the end of May, well it'll be June by the time you guys see this, so six months, sorry Milwaukee, took me a while to get around to it, but they didn't actually get it to me unfortunately until like, it was meant to be at the end of November, but I didn't get it till the 17th of December, and I'd knocked off for the year by that point, and I finally got back to it, but at least it gave me some time to use the thing in that period. I haven't used it a huge amount, but I've used it a few times, and it's a nice little impact driver, I like it, and there's also this impact wrench, sorry not impact driver, but Milwaukee have also released this to sort of coincide with it I think, and it's a nice set of three quarter inch, both deep and stubby ones, so that's cool, we've got some adapters here as well, we've got an impact driver one even, so you can use these in your impact driver, you don't need an impact wrench if you don't want to, this one is a toggling one, so you can see you can get on probably about a 15 degree angle with that, it's a short extension, yeah so nice bits, not only that, we've got metric, and we've got those other crazy numbers, so yeah pretty cool, I'm pretty impressed with it, it's amazing how much power Milwaukee managed to get out of such tiny little tools, and not only do they make a half inch and a three eighths inch, they also now make a quarter inch one as well, if you are interested, and I'll try and put any links down the bottom to any of this stuff, the tools, the boots, and the sockets, so these new gen 2 or gen 3 or whatever they are, definitely a nice improvement over these ones, the light's much better, well they just look nice at the start, it's much smaller, lighter, more powerful, good little tool, so just a quick one this week guys, thanks for watching, and I'll see you again soon, and I've just realized that my camera is on the wrong setting, so hopefully this looks all right, damn it, I was using it for something else the other day, and I dropped the quality right down, oh well, now I better go and work out how to make it real for this thing, see you!