However, maintaining your compressor requires oiling, draining the air tank, keeping everything free of moisture, and making sure the tank still holds air properly.
Years after your purchase, it will need a new tank. Likewise, while your cordless impact drill could last years, batteries have a shelf life. After years, those expensive lithium-ion batteries will need replacing. With a cordless impact wrench, you pick it up, attach your socket and go to work.
Pneumatic requires you to attach a hose, possibly to both the tool and the compressor and charge up the compressor before grabbing your socket and getting on it.
Three power levels of impact wrenches with a couple of batteries to power all of them instead of a generator, compressor, and hose? At first glance, this is a no-brainer. Until you forget to charge your battery. Waiting a couple of minutes for the compressor to reach full pressure is much less time than waiting for a battery to charge. If you grab a kit with two batteries, you can charge one while using the other.
Even with just one battery, put it on the charger every time you finish at the end of the day. Internally, a pneumatic tool is relatively simple, especially when compared to the motor, wiring, and computer systems in a cordless impact wrench.
Those things all cost more money to make, and more money to buy. Most brands will sell their cordless tools as a kit so you get a battery or two and a charger with it. It seems like this makes pneumatic a shoo-in for the win, but you still need a hose and compressor to run your impact wrench. Your compressor should outlast the life of your batteries.
But the price of a large shop compressor will also buy a whole lot of batteries. In the end, cordless might be the better buy for DIYers where pneumatic makes more sense for Pros. With a couple of room changes, going with a cordless nailer system can easily save you 30 minutes. You save even more time the more you move around the jobsite. If you can afford it—both. We have and use both types and so do most of the Pros we work with. We still recommend pneumatic nailers for larger projects.
That includes framing, built-ins, or trimming out an entire house. It makes sense from both a cost and ergonomics standpoint. The pneumatic solution costs less and the tool weighs much less in your hand as you use it for extended periods of time. You will, however, get to the meat of punch list and project work much more quickly with a battery-powered cordless nailer.
Small jobs will simply set up and tear down more quickly with cordless tools. At the end of the day, both pneumatic nailers and cordless nailers have their place. What do you think about the pneumatic vs cordless nailers debate? Let us know in the comments below or by shouting out on Facebook , Instagram , and Twitter! On the clock, Kenny dives deep to discover the practical limits and comparative differences for all kinds of tools. Off the clock, his faith and love for his family are his top priorities, and you'll typically find him in the kitchen, on his bike he's an Ironman , or taking folks out for a day of fishing on Tampa Bay.
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Very informative article. Myself I will move to battery power. Recall your grade school grammar lesson about good, better, best. When comparing two items use better, when comparing three or more items use best. Yes, it does make a difference. You really have to look at tools as an investment, even if you use them occasionally.
You can save lots of money doing things yourself in the long run. You buy the tool and you always have it, which is why you buy a quality tool. I say have both types. I have a closet full of battery powered tools that I have purchased over the years. They all still work perfectly the only problem is their battery systems are no longer made rendering these tools useless.
Investment in quality tools is large and further multiplied when you take into account the fact that the battery system will be obsolete with the next tool line development.
There is also the environmental impact with disposal of spent batteries. Battery powered tools have their place but the future use of that new drill is limited to the time that the battery is still good and a replacement is made.
I have 30 year old electric power tools that were passed down and still work fine. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Note: This post may contain affiliate links. This means that at no cost to you, we may earn a small commission for qualifying purchases.
Advertisement Air tools are generally rebuildable. You can get various parts for them. They are also noticeably lighter. If you want to use the pneumatic wrench, you have to have shop air hooked up to it the entire time. Now, that can be a good thing or a bad thing. Generally air tools should be oiled every day or every other day. They are highly portable. You can throw them in your car, bring it with you when you go to the junkyard … The go-anywhere option of these is really one of the greatest features of having battery-powered tools.
Also, there are options, like lighting and compact sizes. Advertisement Battery life is getting considerably better than it was 10 years ago. You used to have to charge that battery every day or two, now I can go a week to a week and a half before having to recharge the battery in my impact wrench. The drawback to these really nice battery-powered tools is they are generally expensive more so than their air-powered counterpart.
The good news is, most of the tools come with a battery and a charger. Advertisement Battery-powered tools also tend to weigh more. Using throughout the day in the shop, they can get pretty heavy.
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