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Yesterday- a spares or repairs M18 girder and batteries from flebay, I won the auction at £57.
To my surprise the batteries - whilst dirty- worked perfectly. So I stripped them down for a thorough cleaning and swapped in a spare better condition lower case.
Batteries entered gen pop with some of my others -
Grinder has failed bearings which I was hoping for as then I can fix it! Totally stripped down, cleaned and bearings ordered along with a new trigger as the safety catch spring is broken on the original one.
Grinder will be rebuilt this week when the bearings arrive and fingers crossed will be good. That'll be my 3rd M18 grinder. One for wire wheel, one for slitting disc and one for flap discs when doing my rust repairs will speed things up.
To my surprise the batteries - whilst dirty- worked perfectly. So I stripped them down for a thorough cleaning and swapped in a spare better condition lower case.
Batteries entered gen pop with some of my others -
Grinder has failed bearings which I was hoping for as then I can fix it! Totally stripped down, cleaned and bearings ordered along with a new trigger as the safety catch spring is broken on the original one.
Grinder will be rebuilt this week when the bearings arrive and fingers crossed will be good. That'll be my 3rd M18 grinder. One for wire wheel, one for slitting disc and one for flap discs when doing my rust repairs will speed things up.
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That battery carrier is an excellent idea ...I'm going to have a look for a DeWalt one I think.
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Its handy - I got it on ebay someone 3d prints them. Good to keep the batteries organised. I also use the batteries in a clockwise fashion from the caddy that way they all get discharged and recharged to keep them healthy.
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i made a clip that slides onto DIN terminal rail to hold dewalt cells.i have some screwed on a shelf in my van
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Car boot sales have started again, and among all the junk a chap had loads and loads of plastic selection boxes of parts and sundries, fiver each, all from an old-style garage. I picked these two, and the little box was another quid. The connectors are Ripaults-style that are used on seventies Vauxhalls, and well worth the price, I've got loads of the terminals to go in them.
The rest might have been handy, or might have been hanging around in the shed for decades without ever being used.
The rest might have been handy, or might have been hanging around in the shed for decades without ever being used.
Where do you buy your bearings? Most of the suppliers charge high carriage for NI.
I was using simply bearings but they now have a minimum order price to get cheap carriage.
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the jaws were made on a shaper as well
I have all my Makita batteries numbered. I use them in order - 1,2,3,etc. When I get to no 6 I go back to no 1 again. Keeps all the batteries cycled evenly.
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You need to join the red army
I've had problems with fake bearings on ebay and tend to avoid it if I can.
I'm invested in the Blue stuff as is our Men's Shed which comes in handy when borrowing tools..
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What problem did you have - specifically?
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Milwaukee is the way to go. One day you will see the light.
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I go to my local autoparts store to get them.
I usually go for SKF or FAG upon availability, in any case I always go for 2RS type for most repairs.
Only once and it was the Milwaukee grinder I've restored I've had to buy C3 type bearings because that's what the grinder had in first place.
But honestly I've never had problem even with normal shielded bearings, there's not really any advantage in C3 bearings on power tools as the loads and usually lasting time of other components are not worth the hassle of getting high speed bearings, 2RS are more than enough
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Not today, but this week, I ordered one of These
Well it arrived a day early in a very battered cardboard box, spilling out lots of polystyrene crumbs. Probably not the fault of the seller, just clumsy couriers.
Anyhow luckily none of the contents were missing and everything seemed to be in order.
It’s basically a cheap (Chinese) copy of a miracle bender.
I had a proper look at it today - it’s ok I guess but I’m not overly thrilled with it so far.
I don’t really have the space in the garage to bend long lengths of bar, and the bench isn’t really rigid enough anyhow, so it needs to go outside somewhere.
The front of the garage is tarmac and block paving, and it’s all slabbed out the back and not easy to anchor securely, so a cunning plan was hatched!
I have an old 5x3’ trailer chassis, so a couple of timbers clamped down to it made a handy temporary bench! When hitched up to the truck it’s plenty rigid enough to stay put when bending stuff.
It came with a couple of extra dies to allow various radii on the bends, in addition to the ‘sharp’ bend that goes to 120* (I think). Maybe they’ll work better with more practice, but so far the only useful die is the standard sharp bend one.
The clamping mechanism also leaves a bit to be desired. It’s an eccentric cam thing and a chunky block that can be positioned in 4 ways depending upon the thickness of the stock. It sort of works, but a ‘normal’ vice would be much better. The weight of the stock extending out the back is enough to allow the clamp block to release. Easy enough to position something to support the overhang though, but I’d stil prefer a proper vice.
It has a series of holes that take a nice chunky pin to limit the angle of the bend, with a bolt and locknut to fine tune it. Rubbish, unless you’re happy with 80* right angles!
So all in all, it’s not a brilliant bit of kit. With some fettling, I think it could be pretty good, but not straight out of the box.
I needed it to produce some nice tight right angled bends in 40x6 flat bar, which it does do quite well, so it’s not been a total flop. Not a patch on a ‘proper’ miracle bender, but with a bit of modification I think it might be a handy bit of kit.
I’m quite pleased with the trailer bench though. It didn’t move at all when I did some test bends on some 30x10 flat bar. Not sure if the claimed 100x5 is possible though, and I’d love to see a demo of the 60x8 angle that they reckon it will bend!
Well it arrived a day early in a very battered cardboard box, spilling out lots of polystyrene crumbs. Probably not the fault of the seller, just clumsy couriers.
Anyhow luckily none of the contents were missing and everything seemed to be in order.
It’s basically a cheap (Chinese) copy of a miracle bender.
I had a proper look at it today - it’s ok I guess but I’m not overly thrilled with it so far.
I don’t really have the space in the garage to bend long lengths of bar, and the bench isn’t really rigid enough anyhow, so it needs to go outside somewhere.
The front of the garage is tarmac and block paving, and it’s all slabbed out the back and not easy to anchor securely, so a cunning plan was hatched!
I have an old 5x3’ trailer chassis, so a couple of timbers clamped down to it made a handy temporary bench! When hitched up to the truck it’s plenty rigid enough to stay put when bending stuff.
It came with a couple of extra dies to allow various radii on the bends, in addition to the ‘sharp’ bend that goes to 120* (I think). Maybe they’ll work better with more practice, but so far the only useful die is the standard sharp bend one.
The clamping mechanism also leaves a bit to be desired. It’s an eccentric cam thing and a chunky block that can be positioned in 4 ways depending upon the thickness of the stock. It sort of works, but a ‘normal’ vice would be much better. The weight of the stock extending out the back is enough to allow the clamp block to release. Easy enough to position something to support the overhang though, but I’d stil prefer a proper vice.
It has a series of holes that take a nice chunky pin to limit the angle of the bend, with a bolt and locknut to fine tune it. Rubbish, unless you’re happy with 80* right angles!
So all in all, it’s not a brilliant bit of kit. With some fettling, I think it could be pretty good, but not straight out of the box.
I needed it to produce some nice tight right angled bends in 40x6 flat bar, which it does do quite well, so it’s not been a total flop. Not a patch on a ‘proper’ miracle bender, but with a bit of modification I think it might be a handy bit of kit.
I’m quite pleased with the trailer bench though. It didn’t move at all when I did some test bends on some 30x10 flat bar. Not sure if the claimed 100x5 is possible though, and I’d love to see a demo of the 60x8 angle that they reckon it will bend!
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Yes kinda other brands are good enough, I do prefer Makita over Milwaukee and I've got clones till now but Makita are the cheapest to keep them running.
Parts are cheap readily available easy to get and they are very easy to work with to get them fixed.
Always loved their simplicity.
The multinational corporation that owns Milwaukee owns Metabo too.
I can bet Milwaukee got better with battery technology due to that.
Find me a better battery than Metabo Li-HD ... pretty hard to beat them
