I just ordered one for my father. About three years ago I already got him the DCF887N (as an addition to a DCD995M2). That turned out to be the wrong model for the job (he's mainly using it to change wheels on the cars - of course he's using a torque wrench to finalize things at the correct torque for each car). The 887 is nice if you need to drive in screws but for the use with socket spanners it seems close to impossible to find socket adapters that won't break sooner or later due to the high torque.

Fair point - although I’d rather clean up a thread than have to remove half a snapped stud! Find the short sharp shocks from an impact reduces the risk of snapping 20 year old rusty studs that have never moved. I’m no expert though as I’m sure you can tell, so appreciate the feedback!

I think Milwaukee do a 1/4 one that is actually quite good although you'll really struggle to shift anything with it. Their compact 3/8 gun might be a good compromise - the M12FIW38.

The M12FIW14 is their 1/4" drive one - I'd be interested to try it out, tbh.

Hi Matt - I put it through a lot of use with a small impact extension (the one shown in the video when I’m waving it around because I was too lazy to press the pin in to remove it) and it seems to perform admirably. Unfortunately I don’t have anything longer that’s impact rated. Can confirm that using chrome sockets / extensions / u-joints saps the life out of it though!

@@ModernHeroes thankyou for responding. Hope your 75 sells soon enough 👍🏼

The 75’s long gone! New owner is very happy with it, by all accounts.

@@ModernHeroes I’ll try to keep up haha 📺

It seemed pretty good during my testing (used it to strip down the Fox and Rover) but I don’t know how well a genuine DeWalt 5Ah would compare. They’re cheap but I think if I was putting it through serious trade use I would go genuine - they feel cheap and I doubt they’d take knocks or bumps well!

I bought the battery from Amazon. It was less than £30 but I can’t remember exactly how much and it seems the listing has gone now (quite common with “compatible” stuff like that - the brands / sellers / listings change often!). It’s probably worth shelling out the extra for a genuine battery if you’re going to use it a lot but for occasional use the cheapy ones seem to do the job!

@@ModernHeroes ok thanks for replying great video by the way 👍

Yep. You'll find other model numbers with a letter and a number instead of the N that dictate what batteries are supplied with it.

@@ModernHeroes Thanks. I just ordered one and afterwards I wondered if my XR lion batteries would fit it. Looks like they will.

This one isn’t brushless - I suspect that’s why it’s cheaper. Will work with any XR battery but you might need a bigger one, I think it’ll deplete a 1.5Ah pretty quickly!

@@ModernHeroes ye I understand that the 1,5ah is a bit small but im going to buy a 5ah so I can use for the drill to, does yours still work fine?

@@hugootterstrom5812 yeah it’s still going well! 👍

@@ModernHeroes okey i think am going to buy this very soon with a 5ah batteri, i guess 200nm for its size is very good, But many cheap impact wrenches says it delivers 400nm but can only do 180nm so I think the dewalt Will do very close to 200nm dont u think ?

For the price at the time and the fact it fits into smaller spaces, yes, it’s decent. It isn’t as powerful as their massive ones but it’s not as expensive or huge either.

…. u wot m8?

@@ModernHeroes you said that would be the ultimate test and didnt show it