Super cool kit guys, thanks for the video. Still super interested in hearing your thoughts on the new Powerpack DW batteries...cheers

I have an army buddy that used to work on tanks, which was his specialty. I would love to show him this and see if he remembers.

Would love to have one of those wrenches to go with our m939 5 ton truck, it would work great for changing tires.

That would be pretty impressive to wield at a jobsite, I tell you what

Not to sound dumb but is buying the Xcel file on Etsy how we help support the channel (and enter for a chance to own that beast of a tool) ?

Or, just as likely, that Abrams track will never go on again :)

So you're saying the Marines could use this too?

​@@svideodotorgIt should be considered "Marine Resistant", there is nothing that can actually be rated to survive US Marines

@@ricomock2 It's like my mom always said. "You can design an idiot proof item, but nature will design a better idiot in response."

This design also allows to just run through the connections. Zip zip zip zip Instead of trying to get it right by hand after loading. It's a pretty good idea. Because the LAST thing you want is to gall weld pins on tracks in place.

150-200 used on ebay

Which means this is the pinnacle of 1980 (not 1980s) technology. haha

Look at the competition in 1989. Yes, this was a MONSTER of a tool.

So x12 more than it should cost. Sounds about right.

Updated items can keep the same number, provided that there is no significant change in form, fit, or function.

I threw one on my wrecker in an armored division just so that I can replace tires faster. operators loved hitting those finger thick thorns popping all sorts of rubber

Sounds like the engineers designed it to work ideally at exactly the correct voltage then, going by the tests in the video.

I was about to comment about the bank of series parallel batteries in the Abrams that this tool is plugged into

And 3 out of the 4 in your platoon would always be broken

If only it had an adapter to pop the bitch plate off lol.

haha I was kind of thinking about that. In the back of my head I was wondering how fast it would drain the batteries if they were not running.

@@mromutt “upto 500 amps” if you do the math, that’s insanely fast. Two twelve volt car batteries have around 50 amps together in series @ 28 volts. Like the soldier said “One tire”. You have about 20 minutes of full power before you start to feel the voltage drop. That’s with healthy Battery’s. That can hold a standard CCA. Edit: I need one of these to work on cars with 😂😎

They only eat the best crayons. I swear.

I also liked the reference "pissed off gorilla in a hurry"

Say what you will about the Marines. They are quite skilled at what they're supposed to do.

@@colinklang I agree.

I have some bad news. Bunch of the cools stuff still runs on 8" floppy.

To my most recent recollection there were still missle silos relying on Floppy's, but that may have changed

Fun fact: In today’s world, old school floppy based computers provide (be it accidentally) air gap protection from network hacks.

i am in Canada and we still use stuff from the 80's. like, manufactured and started being used in the 80's... not joking. everything is dirty and smell like piss or mold. tons of stuff is patched with tape and tie-raps.

First this test is is no good. THe voltage was 4.5 volts bellow what a real military vechile would be at. 24V system would be dead at 24V just like a civilian car battery is dead at 12V. 24V system should be around 28.5V. That craptastic chinessium inverter can not do 28.5V and it's current is bellow average as well! As to computers our nuclear missel systems are ran on ancient DOS systems with slow CPU's and huge floppys. Old vintage operating systems and analog interfaces are not prone to hacking like modern systems. The computing power of a 1980's wrist watch calculator watch is more than enough to launch a missle. They are basicly operating as encypted double redundant on/off switch not a gaming PC! He might as well be powering the modern battery operated impacts off of a small laptop brick!

It looks like they may have already partnered with Hilti to make a cordless 36V version

@@TorqueTestChannel so is nuron platform getting 36volts or is this their prenuron 36 volts?

@@marconiandcheese7258 Oh, no. it's looks very old and not necessarily for the military aircraftdynamics.com/products/roboimpact%C2%AE-tools/36-volt-cordless-roboimpact%C2%AE

@@TorqueTestChannel now that I think about it, 36 volts in nuron doesnt make sense since nuron is 22 volts nominal. 44 volts (if double batteries like some makitas are) would make more sense.

Hilti does have an old 36v line

All I care about is that it works when it needs to on the battlefield.

It is likely expensive, but not ridiculously so as the quantity delivered is enough to offset any custom tooling and R&D. The famous hammer was $435, the actual cost of the hammer was the $15 it cost to buy plus the $420 R&D and overhead. That overhead was allocated evenly across every item in the kit, so even though the it was some expensive custom electronics was where 99% of the overhead was spent on, it was allocated eventually across every item delivered. While there is waste in government procurement, generally there are reasonable explanations to a lot of the items that thrown about.

​@@melgross "What is the military industrial complex?" Alex..

@@Teampegleg”overhead” meaning extreme profits and executive pay.

@@melgross have you never heard "all wars are bankers wars"?

Military Grade = Lowest Bidder

Imagine sitting on a military $5000 toilet trying to loosen an impacted Duce of masticated MRE SOS with this beauty... does RoboImpact also make a latrine Bidet?

Send it to me pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeee

What's the voltage drop looking like?

The tool is 24v, As long as your providing constant voltage, You cannot supply "to much current", The tool only draws what it needs.

Stick a screwdriver in it and pinch the outer ring. It would go again.

Makes me wonder why a similar design wasn't used for EV's You have connectors and specs out there already.

@warlockd part of it has to do with EV chargers have to "talk" to the cars on board charger and make sure the correct current is being supplied, additionally that there is no isolation faults (short circuits), and all correct conditions are met safely charge. So there has to be more than just two contacts on a EV charger, both AC and DC. Lithium cells in EV batteries have a very narrow window of voltage they operate in, and exceeding it, in either direction can be very expensive, or even worse, deadly...

@@warlockdevs need a bit more than 24V, so you the requirements are totally different.

@@edc1569 These connectors are beefy enough to handle way, way more than 24V. I mean, they're bigger than the plugs we use for EVs right now, and have much higher contact surface area. The main reason EV companies didn't just stick 2-3 signal pins into the existing NATO design is then they wouldn't be able to license their design to other companies for profit.

Also, getting a new tool approved is a whole other kettle of giant, bureaucratic fish. So...let's not build a new tool because we really, really don't want to have to go through the whole 36-month approval process.

Mil-Spec USB socket: $750 Features: Water, temp, oil, solvent, drop, impact, etc. resistant USB 2.0

"Mil-spec" isn't a compliment. Js

​​@@MazeFrame a bit optimistic to think it would be anything above 1.1

@@MazeFrame More like a mil-spec floppy disk lol

When I went thru basic in the Army we had 5 Tanker guys in the platoon, all 5 were knuckle draggers.

Yup, often like 5/8" drive. I'm thinking this one's 24V NATO plug is enough of a discouragement

​@@TorqueTestChannelI'm sure someone from the military will drop by and give some more information, like real world uses on the tanks and other heavy equipment.

Not sure about tank mechanics, but most mechanic units have foam cutout storage for every tool, and if at the end of the day one is missing, everything stops and noone goes home until every single socket/tool/whatever is found.

@@SvdSinner Absolutely nothing would get done over here if we had the same rule haha, I swear i had that DBE like 30 seconds ago! And who took my 10mm!?

​@@TorqueTestChannelI have a corded Makita TW1000 1" drive impact, would you be interested in testing it? Mines about 10 years old but they're still being made and sold. I'd be happy to send it your way if you're interested!

Nice hiss!

LOL x-over

The crossover we didn't know we needed. Get LPL in here and it's a party.

What would TTC reviewing an MRE be like? Beans would be involved for sure.

just the amount of people liking your comment and know who you are referring to is awesome. Steve is awesome.

Seeing a huge collaborative vid would be awesome between all of them, and Cousin Eddy of course.

whats stopping you from doing tge same??

It's cool that they're continuing the work that AvE abandoned.

"2018ish AVE" sad truth

@@johndowe7003 it was super cringe to see middle aged men copying his canada pirate lingo in YT comments

lol you are correct he tested 28 too

​@@jahutusvedelik that was pretty cool to see it come alive at running voltage.

@@jahutusvedelikI saw after I commented. This would be handy on my M35a2 Deuce and a halves and my M816 wrecker.

I have two that I'd like to sell

Unfortunately he set the current limit incorrectly, so you see the voltage drop below 20V under load​@@jahutusvedelik

Designed in the '80s alongside the torque specs for the M1A1 track components, which is also why it has slip clutch accessories that slip at a certain torque. Basically idiot-proof considering drivers are one of the lowest entries in field service. M1s and Humvees shared a 28v port, M1s had higher amps out of that port, the tool is for field service of basically only track service. If you want to look at an actual general purpose tool, Humvees would also have a hydraulic port for hydraulic tools.

Something along the lines of an Ingersoll Rand 588A1

They said they won't test them because they don't bench well. Same thing with those oil filled impact drivers.

@@sshep7119 Tools like that are awesome just for the owner's manuals! "Portable and easy to handle" is what it says on the website, but the manual says "This tool is designed to be operated by a minimum of two persons."

I can't imagine it is easy to bench test an impact that puts out 80,000 ft/lbs of torque and weighs 600lbs. I looked up the biggest socket I could find and the socket itself is 43lbs, of course that is a 9-3/4" socket. There is a few youtube videos of the IR599 being used and it just sounds like you would expect it to.

@@chrisdavidson911 Yeah, the IR599A1 weighs well 599lbs. A minimum of 2 guys, plus the crane operator and a spotter. Still would be one hell of an episode if TTC could make it happen, there is a 599A1 on the bay right now for 16K but that doesn't include a socket. The socket alone is about $2500.00 for the smallest socket I could find for it.

The Russians could make it happen

Give it to Uncle Bumblef**k. He'll find a way

It was made for grunts. It you want to see it happen, give it to the marines

@@Wk-is8eh😂😂

@@galvanizedgnome I accept the challenge

I never saw one of these anywhere near an Abrahms. If the mechanics had them they kept them hidden from us.

Really? They were part of the BII. We definitely had them

@@jmcculloch86 I was 19k from 89-91 and never heard of this until today.

@@Kevin.L_ they were probably all malfunctioned already.

@@Kevin.L_ You and me both, seems the early M1 tankers didn't have the luxury. This was released in 89 I believe.

?? sorry idk why are you repeating the main takeaway from those tests

Bro just didn't watch the video😂

that stuff breaks on its own because the maintenance crews are now special hire pronoun warriors. No worries as an overpriced replacement item is just wat the MIC ordered 😅

@@rhetorical1488Huh?

@@JollyGiant19 It means the Military was actually better off with the old "Don't ask, Don't tell" policy.

All.army stuff is broken 😂 just keep adding oil.

@@rhetorical1488👴🏻

no veil, just straight redundancy durability and simplicity for a very specific task

Makes sense the average grunt doesn't get the really powerful tools. "If it ain't broke, it hasn't been issued to the infantry." Would appear to be the appropriate adage here.

@@evannewman3997 *Or, "The Army couldn't break it so let's give it to the Marines to play with"*

Ive snapped a few bolts with the hyd gun on the 88!lol

19K Abrams Crewman and 11B have the same ASVAB requirement

I resemble that remark. Tanker from '85 - '91 on the M60A1's. We can find a way to break anything. But in the end we find a way to fix it.

That sounds about right. 😂 I have 4 USMC friends, very close friends. And yes, that pretty much sums it up.😂 They are some of the greatest friends I can ever ask for. I have very high respect for the USMC. I never served, and I decided to drive truck instead. I always told them that I will do what I can to keep America moving while you guys keep it safe.

This isn't peak. The tool is meant specifically for track service on the M1A1, hence all the torque limitations on the accessories, and hence why the tool itself hasn't changed since the '80s. If you want to see peak with a military tool, just wait until they get the hydraulic wrenches, which were used in the same sense that any other tool on this channel is realistically used as.

The problem with buying cheaper overseas stuff is that once it happens the US factory closes up shop and if things in the world really gets hot again then your supply chain is potentially cut off with no domestic supply available at all. Imagine WWII but all our stuff was made in China...It wouldn't have worked out so well for us.

​@@ZboeC5In WWII they converted and retooled other existing factories and warehouses for military production

If it ain't broke, fix it until it is

indeed

We don't pick a winner for another month or so

​@@TorqueTestChannelwhere do I get the rank chart?

​@HandyMann243 if only there was a place for information like that RIGHT ON THIS PAGE.

The FLEX's wires didn't even get warm, which they usually do on these wires around 35-40 AMPS, the tool's not rated for enough amps to max them out.

It still works! It's inefficient but the army bought it and changing it over is a bigger deal than one would normally think it is. Plus, from my understanding, USA was really gearing to go to war with the soviet union in the 80s-90s. So they bought up tons of gear to be ready. And it's been in inventories ever since and every change of command is the dreaded full inventory lay out for stuff that hasn't been touched since the last inventory lay out.