Ideas for handle

[stewart.d.campbell]

Hi guys, bought a used inch drive impact wrench but the handle is missing, need some ideas for a replacement.I have included photos of the actual gun and what it should look like, oh and the casing has been turned so the holes for the handle are on the side.Ideas i have had so far are patio door handle, spade handle or a petrol strimmer d handle although that might be too big, any ideas, cheers.

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[waddycall]

Are the threads in the holes useable?

 

[chris pruteanu]

I would say replicate the design of the original handle, make it out of 2 steel bends and a few pieces of tube welded together and drill the plate to suit the holes...Alternately you could look for a replacement handle on the web, many of them impact guns are generic and the design is copied among them !

 

[steviec_lj]

Just hang on for dear life, you don’t need a handle

As above though, metal plate drilled to suit with a couple of heavy bends welded to the top.

 

[8ob]

A handle on a big nut gun in that position would be a royal pain, on things like truck wheel nuts it would always be getting in the way. A bracket off the back of the gun would make it a bit more user friendly.

Bob

 

[MCKDAVID]

make one out of steel, or if it's only for occasional use, could you adapt a drill handle, clamped on, something like this?

 

[pedrobedro]

Drill a piece of plate to the four holes and weld a piece of bar to it sticking out sideways, it will be easier to use than a top handle.

 

[jsf55]

25mm flat off the top too nuts at the rear twisted through 90o and a bit of conduit/air pipe welded between the two, I did one once came in handy to hang it up too

 

[stewart.d.campbell]

Looked for a impact wrench handle and can't find any for sale, did think about the drill handle myself albeit with a plate on the gun, nut welded to it to screw into.Good idea with the two 90 degrees on a bar.

 

[gordon stephenson]

Never used an impact gun with a side handle, Ditch the idea.

 

[armalites]

I would say that handle look more intended for picking it up than something you hold on to while using.

 

[Parm]

Never used an impact gun with a side handle, Ditch the idea.

Probably why it’s missing in the first place

 

[stewart.d.campbell]

Think I might buy a couple of u bolts and weld them together or one large one like m18 and fix them to a plate to attach.

 

[stewart.d.campbell]

I can always remove it when required.

 

[MoreWellie]

rather than being a handle it could be an attach point for a tool balance spring

 

[stewart.d.campbell]

Lots of 1 inch drive impacts seem to have handles albeit most on the sides, i have never used an impact with a handle either but this is the sort of size difference compared to a 1/2 in for those that have not used one and its bloody heavy.View media item 10310

 

[gordon stephenson]

We hired in a 2-1/2" Ingersoll Rand impact gun on one occasion (and it had side handles) to try and undo some nuts in the power station. It needed a huge road going compressor and a 2" bore hose to run it, Unfortunately still not strong enough for the job,

 

[brightspark]

I got a 1 inch drive ingersol rand impact wrench it has 3/4 bore hose on it with claw coupling. its impact so don't see the need for a handle and its not fitted with one or never was probably just easier to pick it up if it has one. that's about it

 

[gordon stephenson]

Those 1" drive Ingesol Rand guns are the dogs danglies, they are all we used for all the normal stuff.