amptech

My wife bought me a Bosch Pocket driver last July for my birthday. What a powerful little driver! 10.8V Li that lasts a long time. I was in the process of roughing in a 27k sqft church addition and was hanging a lot of 4 sq boxes w/side bkts on steel and wood studs. That little driver easily fits in my tool pouch and drives screws all day long. Bosch also came out with an impact version that is the same size but weighs a couple of ounces more. It has more torque and higher rmp than the original. I bought one of those last week. I am shooting tek screws in to purlans to hang pipe and 4 squares. The impactor is perfect for the job and again the battery lasts all day. Best tool purchase for me this year.

Roger123

Hey Amp,

I have had the Bosch 10.8 for a while now. It is a nice tool. Mind came with a hostler. Makes it real easy to use on a ladder. A person can even cross draw from the hostler!!

Bkessler

I have all three, although the swivel head does not get used much, the other two do, Popular science rated the pocket driver as one of the 50 best tools ever!

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MDShunk

So if a fella was to just buy one of them (I understand there are several), which one should he buy?

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randomkiller

The impactor is the one to have, it does one hell of a job, weighs like a feather for its power and with a stubby bit fits in very small areas. I have all three and rarely use the angle head driver but, when you need it you cant replace it. I cant get over how long the batteries last.

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JohnJ0906

I've been eyeing those up for a few months now. Maybe I'll have to pick one up. I haven't bought a tool in a few weeks....

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randomkiller

If I told you how many new tools I have bought this year you would think I was a liar, M. Klein IV called and said he was gonna use me as a consultant.

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Bkessler

If your gonna get one MD go for the impactor, also get a wire nut driver for it.

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randomkiller

Who makes that? WHere do you get them?

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Bkessler

The one i use is by dottie, course I never heard of dottie products till I moved to the leftcoast.

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randomkiller

Thanks

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gilbequick

I use the iDriver, the right angle one with the articulating head on it. This thing kicks major butt. It fits in my Klein tool belt (the white leather one) and gets into small spaces like no other power tool! The battery on it will last all day, sometimes 2 days.

The only thing I don't like about it is that the electronic clutch is a joke. Don't think it'll work, because it won't! Just put it on full drive and go to town.

Here's the wire nut driver that I use. If you've never seen one before, you'll have one after you do. It is sweet. http://www.drillspot.com/products/44...or-Socket-Tool

randomkiller

I have the three drivers, its the nut driver that I was interested in, there are too many days that I have sore spots on my fingers from wire nuts. I have been using the hand wire nut tightener.

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Bkessler

I said 14 years of the hand method was enough.

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amptech

I use NSI wirenuts and a "nut driver" comes in each bag of 500 tan wirenuts. A 5/16 nutdriver fits Ideal and NSI tan/red wirenuts. I usually start wirenuts by hand and tighten them up with the nutdriver built in to the handle of my Ideal 6 in 1 screwdriver.

gilbequick

Before I got the wire nut driver made for the drill, I used to chuck my Ideal 6 in 1 into my drill and use that. It worked but made for an extremely long bit! As a side note, HD used to carry those screwdrivers and for some reason clearanced them out....I bought 6 of them for $5 a pop! (I'm pretty hard on my tools.)

HotWire367

After reading about everyones love for the Bosch driver I have added it to my wifes Christmas list.....I think she'll love it.......

randomkiller

Huge draw back to this tool I found out the last few days, when the battery is cold from overnight in the truck it won't work. You can try and start out super slow but it won't come up to anywhere near full power. Had to break out the DeWalt the last few days @30 F outside.

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brian john

The impact drivers are nice for removing switchboard covers, BUT electricians need to ease up on using them to reinstall covers, WAY over torquing, stripping out the hardware, or making the it almost impossible to remove the cover without cutting the heads off the hardware.

rivalshad

The Bosch are nice and work really well, but beware of all the comments you will get on them. My foreman I work under hasn't brought it out once and not heard a comment about bringing his sister's drill to the job