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the jaws were made on a shaper as well
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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
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Went to the street market again.
But didn't have time to make some photos of what I've got, so here we have two pics from Google.
Anyways I've got one of those Stihl 25" rollomatic es light bar in used but still good conditions, for 10 euro
And I've gave up and got another masculine drill for 20 euro
AEG BZ22 Morse taper 2, no mechanical gearbox, just fixed gear and 2 electric speeds selector.
It has what looks like a 15 or 16mm morse taper drill was worth the price by itself.
I've decided to disassemble it for checking it's conditions because of the cracked plastic motor housing but I've discovered it's just a cover layer on the aluminum housing beneath.
Problem is that I cannot remove it because it's part of the brush holders.
Otherwise I would have completely removed it .
Anyways it looks brand new inside so there would be a restoration video about it.
It has some serious and chunky gears in it, almost 30mm thick.
But didn't have time to make some photos of what I've got, so here we have two pics from Google.
Anyways I've got one of those Stihl 25" rollomatic es light bar in used but still good conditions, for 10 euro
And I've gave up and got another masculine drill for 20 euro
AEG BZ22 Morse taper 2, no mechanical gearbox, just fixed gear and 2 electric speeds selector.
It has what looks like a 15 or 16mm morse taper drill was worth the price by itself.
I've decided to disassemble it for checking it's conditions because of the cracked plastic motor housing but I've discovered it's just a cover layer on the aluminum housing beneath.
Problem is that I cannot remove it because it's part of the brush holders.
Otherwise I would have completely removed it .
Anyways it looks brand new inside so there would be a restoration video about it.
It has some serious and chunky gears in it, almost 30mm thick.
Bearings that claimed to be skf but upon receiving them it was obvious they were fake. A lot of slop in them and very little grease.
I was refunded straight away by the seller no arguments. Would a trader selling genuine stuff do that?
Another bearing trader selling a 'quality budget' bearing that were appallingly bad quality. Got a refund on those too, seller claimed they had sold hundreds of them with no issues. There must be hundreds of mugs out there using these bearings!
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Fake bearings are a huge issue - last I heard they are getting into genuine supply chains too.
Really difficult to know what you are buying now.
Really difficult to know what you are buying now.
Never had a duff one from simply bearings. I really rate their EU made premium budget brand.
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Didn't @doubleboost mention issues with bearings on one of his videos a couple of year or so ago? Seem to recall it being in relation to a lathe tool he'd made.
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For Milwaukee stuff it's pretty easy to see a bad bearing.
Thankfully in order 20 years of buying bearings from ebay the only issues I've had is aftermarket Stihl parts. Otherwise had 100% success buying branded bearings. But fair warning will keep an eye out. Everything, including spark plugs are faked these days
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Depending where in NI you are, I would have thought that there would be a local bearings supplier who would be worth using...
Possibly not so easy if you're very rural though.
I use Bearing King and Steel City Bearings, both of whom will ship to NI without a minimum charge, but use UPS, so it's £15 carriage.
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That rules them out right away! I refuse to pay extra shipping to NI on principle as it makes very little to no difference in reality. If I am in an online checkout and it's free shipping to mainland but extra to NI I leave and go somewhere else.
Its a shame that companies like @Viceman don't ship to NI anymore but untimely the same parts are available elsewhere too.
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Bearing Fraud is a huge issue.
NSK, Schaffler and SKF all have dedicated resources to help users verify that safety critical bearings are genuine.
There was also a warning issued by the ORR after an investigation discovered that fake bearings for railway wheel sets had found their way into the supply chain even through the train company in question had bought directly from an approved distributor of (I think) SKF...
I can't find the articles now, but apparently it was down to a logistics partner using shared warehousing that worked off of product SKU rather than tracking pallets/boxes individually.
