Milwaukee 2964-22

The 2964-22 is Milwaukee's M18 FUEL 3/4-inch high-torque impact wrench, a brushless cordless tool sold as a kit with ONE-KEY.

It is the hardest-hitting impact wrench in this catalogue, and not narrowly. Milwaukee publishes 1,800 ft-lb of fastening torque and 2,000 ft-lb of nut-busting torque — the highest of the 94 impact wrenches here that publish a maximum, and the highest of the 27 that publish a breakaway figure. The median across those 94 is under a fifth of it. Even Milwaukee's own 2454-22, a capable 12V wrench, publishes about a fifteenth as much.

The 3/4-inch square drive is the other half of that story: it is the size fitted where sockets have to survive the torque, rather than the 1/2-inch most cordless wrenches use. Milwaukee lists no impact rate, no-load speed or weight for this model, so how it delivers that torque is not something the published figures answer.

Compiled from Milwaukee’s published figures and the 7 specifications this catalogue holds for the 2964-22. Not a hands-on test.