Chicago Pneumatic Butterfly Impact

[Noworries]

This guy I know is selling me his cp720 for 10 bucks. Now I have never owned or felt there was any real need for me to have one but for the price I feel like I need this one. What are the practical uses and are standard sockets ok or do I need to get 3/8 impacts now??

 

[unslow1]

I like them for transmission bell housing bolts on a RWD. I've also always preferred them for tearing down an engine out of the car.

 

[rlitman]

I haven't used mine in a while, since my cordless impact driver covers most of this torque range, but I remember it being quite handy. I have a cheap Husky, and I'd be all over a CP at 10 bucks.

I've used mine for my lawnmower blade bolts when my cordless couldn't get them to budge but I didn't want to risk breaking something with the 1/2" impact.

Impact sockets are always recommended with any impact tools, but I've been known to use this with chrome.

 

[m6z]

I like them for transmission bell housing bolts on a RWD. I've also always preferred them for tearing down an engine out of the car.

Yeah, very handy for transmissions.

 

[Downwindtracker 2]

It's more of a production tool. We used them to bolt the buckets on grain elevator at a terminal.

 

[xela456]

Someone on here was using them for a powered draw bar attachment kits. I dont remember where I saw that.

 

[joe_padavano]

I have one. I use it a LOT. Handy for teardown of engines, transmissions, etc.

 

[dnschmidt]

Sort of a tool of the past but for $10 what the hell go for it.

 

[Honda guy]

I've known several motorcycle mechanics that used to use those. I had a Mac butterfly that I really liked. Mainly for tearing down engines. I haven't seen anybody use one in years, since all the good cordless stuff came out.

 

[davethorik]

Someone on here was using them for a powered draw bar attachment kits. I dont remember where I saw that.

Not just someone on here, I've seen them on quite a few Bridgeports in machine shops. Must have been a popular conversion. I am 6'4" and manually loosening the drawbar never bothered me but I'm sure the shorter fellas love it.

 

[Noworries]

Seems to be mostly a tear down tool.. as I said, never really felt I needed one but for 10 bucks... thanks for the input

 

[seber]

The bees knees for motorcycles.

 

[xela456]

Not just someone on here, I've seen them on quite a few Bridgeports in machine shops. Must have been a popular conversion. I am 6'4" and manually loosening the drawbar never bothered me but I'm sure the shorter fellas love it.

The first bridgeport I ever operated had one. Though not one of these kits, a real life high end one. Now the manual way seems tedious, that's probably because I was born in 1989. I'm 6'4" also btw.