On August 3, 2012 at 08:29, Mario said...
I read it somewhere that impact mode is actually better for driving screws into wood. Something about the fact that when the driver goes back and forth, it relaxes wood fibers and its more likely to not compress them (wood fibers).
Now that I think about it, I've never trid it myslef, even thought I have that setting on my Rigid 24V drill.
That particular tool is impact only. I'll say right off the bat it is insanely powerful, yet small and lightweight.
When I started replacing my old tools with better ones, I bought the impact driver and drill kit. With my old drill when i'd drive a drywall screw in it would skip a lot, the tip of the bit would skip in and out of the screw head, especially when you get deeper into the wood. The first time I used the makita impact driver I put a 3" drywall screw all the way through a piece of plywood into a stud, did not skip once, I just held the trigger and put pressure and the f#$%in driver drove it in and buried the head like it wasn't even there. I was so freakin amazed I stood there looking at it in disbelief.
With the Rigid, unless i'm wrong you're talking about the hammer/drill which is different. Hammer drill is not a impact driver. If your using a regular drill to drive in screws try out an impact drill, you wont go back.
