By Far THE Best Right Angle Cordless Impact Wrench: Ep46

[Music] welcome back to the torque test channel today is a right angle impact head-to-head of the cordless variety we've done a couple of episodes now on error right angle impacts and as we've bought more we tend to use them more they sort of have a way of becoming more and more useful the more you remember that you have one today we take that convenience to the next level by removing the airlines that is if these cordless competitors can keep up that's going to include this milwaukee m12 2565-20 right angle impact and the cobalt xtr 124b-03 while the xtr is 24 volt and thus gets a larger battery and with that a higher voltage architecture it's only advertising 180 foot-pounds which would somehow put it at a disadvantage against the 12-volt milwaukee which claims an even higher 220 foot pounds and it's lower profile in the head as well while milwaukee advertises this tool at 2.2 inches if you actually include the drive end which you sort of need to we measured this one loaned to us by viewer jordan jennings at 2.81 inches which is still shorter than 3.05 we measured on the cobalt that we purchased while comparing 12 volt tool to a 24 volt one is not ideal it only takes a short look around at your local hardware store or online to realize that there's not really a lot else to compare to in this cordless ride angle impact arena if you want right angle action without an airline you're likely going to be either buying this one or this one the cobalt being 24 volt gets a larger size battery and in this case that's the 4 amp hour ultimate output which sticks off the end of this sort of in a funky way but but likely not going to be too much in the way most of the time in order to give the m12 its best showing we're pairing it today with the xz 6.0 which is a physically smaller but having a larger number on the side of the battery than the cobalt here and this battery performs best with this 2865 based on our testing in order to test both these tools on our large hex size dyno despite these tools having different drive sizes we'll be using this custom 3 8 drive 38 millimeter impact socket we had made just for this channel based on our quick test episode 5 socket mask on this dyno specifically doesn't seem to play much of a part in the role of power figures like it does on smaller sockets shown in our 4 science episode 6 with small deep and weighted sockets so on this large hex size if there was a difference with this 3 8 inch custom socket if at all it would be to the disadvantage of the xtr based on the data we have from socket mass but it's certainly a lot better than using a 3 8 to half inch adapter for the extra performance milwaukee advertises on m12 you will definitely be paying for it the cobalt xtr comes in at only 150 bucks and even with the larger sized battery that's 70 dollars so 220 total whereas the m12 starts at 200 and with an xc 6.0 is around 100 extra making for 300 total versus 220 but maybe that extra advertised performance is worth it we've seen more than a few people in our comment section and online venting about what they feel is a significant lack of performance from this tool even considering its size so is that all just hearsay is the xtr then even worse than that because it's showing only 180 foot-pounds let's find out in our testing our first test is called working torque this is five seconds it forward up first is the m12 with that xc 6.0 battery 114 well that isn't exactly sky high only the dp we tested scored less than that in the last 55 impacts we've used then at least you know what you're getting when you sign up for dp then again this is just the first cordless right angle we've tested let's see how the xtr stacks up 165 i know we're only talking 50 foot pounds here but that's a 45 difference that's huge on this category of tools maybe those 24 volts are propelling this cobalt out the gate to an early display of power let's see in our longer tests which is 10 seconds of max torque in reverse here's that with the m12 140 foot-pounds but starting to level out a bit too here's the xtreme 189 this time again putting a gap on the milwaukee and now only two tests in surpassing its 180 foot-pound torque claim that does not happen too often on this channel if we're seeing a difference from sockets the xtr should be experiencing a disadvantage right about now but it's continuing to impress our last test is called best case scenario 15 seconds batteries fresh off the charger tools are allowed to make their best runs in forward or reverse here's the milwaukee 182 foot pounds just about matching that xtr's max torque run but not able to surpass or match its 220 torque claim here's the cobalt xtr so 252 that's sort of insane we noticed this tool really like to have a freshly charged battery compared to the others yes this won't be taking off everything you run into but that power is much more than we expected out of this slim head cordless ride angle impact in 3 8 drive no less stay tuned to see how these rank on our right angle chart but we're curious if some of you are still thinking to yourselves well duh you can't compare 24 volt versus 12 volt and expect not to see a huge gap in performance if so we feel like you're essentially admitting that a power tool companies are lying to you in a big way about torque figures and b you're fine with that if you're looking at one tool and it says 220 foot pounds and another one that does the same task saying 180 foot-pounds are we supposed to be asking ourselves well what voltage is it because the higher one will obviously make more power and just start pretending like there aren't already power figures written on the box that are supposed to be telling us this information if that is the case then the new flex 24 volt high torque we tested should be the obvious choice sure advertises less beans than m18 high torque but it is 24 volts right yet the m18 high torque spanked it there obviously with this sort of rhetoric we're tooting our own horn here because without a channel testing these tools for you guys like this one and the precious few other channels out there doing the same how is anyone really going to know how any of these tools perform it's becoming increasingly clear to us that the info written on the box that's supposed to be meeting this need when making your buying decision is way out of whack of course our power metric here is not the correct answer after all brands like to rate based on loosening nowadays but if one is coming under a torque claim on this same rig and the other is way overshooting it there must be some serious differences in methodology between these brands or even within brands as we've seen from the xtr high torque which made under its power claims on this dyno which is very normal on this channel versus this right angle today which shot well above it enough yabbering though onto the rank chart they both start down here for now with their power runs turn to the points that's 11 14 and 18 for the milwaukee and 16 19 and 25 for the cobalt when we're talking foot pounds per inch the milwaukee is shorter but the xtr made much more power so that's 64.8 foot-pounds per inch and 82.6 foot-pounds per inch the m12 actually made 83 of its torque claim which is pretty on par with the category here and most of the milwaukee tools we've tested so no smoking gun there we're not pointing too many fingers most brands are in that boat with milwaukee the xcr just happened to well overshoot their claim and gets the max allowed points for this column 100 or 100 percent the milwaukee costs more and made less so that's 13.7 points versus 25.4 that totals 204.5 and 268 putting milwaukee's right angle into fifth and xtr into third or first place among cordless options of course considering cordless tools have to package their power source and impact mechanism in the same small space when you're going to compare power of even xtr versus our number one seeded air nano here there's still quite some gap but cordless seems to be catching up all the time so we'll have to see how things stack up in the future within this category of cordless and see if it's able to maybe match the points that the air tools make like they seem to be able to on our full-size impact list either way you look at it this cobalt xtr right angle is quite a good buy we have little to no complaints about it besides the sort of awkward battery hanging off the end we're surprised brands like makita dewalt and now chevron's other label flex don't have a model of their own out yet as this is a wide open category but i guess until then cobalt's going to reign supreme thanks for watching we'll be doing plenty more videos like this one so click subscribe to come along for that journey and thank you for watching [Music] you

Channel: Torque Test Channel

Views: 363,680

Keywords: 2565-20, 2565-22, milwaukee, m12 FUEL, kraiw 124b-03, 124b-03, right angle, RA, impact wrnech, right angle impact, right angle drill, compact, impact, 1/2, 3/8, socket, low profile, tight, milwaukee impact wrench, impact wrench

Id: Cgw99dFjvrk

Length: 10min 37sec (637 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 13 2021