impacted shop practices

[Ron Nossaman]

>    Alrighty then.  I got one... so I'm trying it.
>   Up till now I have used a brace & bit...Carefully. But its' a hard 
> work.  I usually fit all the screws to the new block before finishing 
> just to avoid those famous words........oooops!!!   MAn I hate that
>    Dale

I hate that too. I'd been running a long screw of the same 
diameter into the block with my 3/8" VSR drill, which takes a 
lot of the work out of driving them by hand, either with a 
brace or ratchet, but it's still work. The biggest potential 
problem I see with the impact is breaking the heads of old 
screws. I started replacing old pinblock screws years ago 
because of that, and was driving them by hand.

If we had any sense, we'd just switch to Robertson's and get 
it over with.
Ron N