🚘 Automotive Cordless Tool Thread

[greasy]

I suspect it’s because we are moving to a redesigned 4 Ah battery.

 

[GTPpower]

What are they redesigning?

 

[greasy]

What are they redesigning?

They are moving to different cells that allow them to change the footprint of the battery and improve performance. We did it with our 3.0 AH last year. It will go from being a taller narrow battery to a thinner wider battery like this.

 

[GTPpower]

Ah cool. It does seem like having a shorter in height battery does help quite a bit more than the width of it when using it in tight spots.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Kinda like this CP3 I've been rocking for 2 months now.?

 

[FESTER665]

Bucket full of trash if Milwaukee cant or doesn’t sell replacement switches for these drivers.

We usually get a year out of them or so give or take.

We used to use the 7.2 Dewalt screwdrivers but they were heavy and discontinued. These work great for about a year but then wear out.

Wish another brand made a small electric screwdriver like this with clutch settings and replaceable parts so I could rebuild them.

 

[greasy]

Kinda like this CP3 I've been rocking for 2 months now.?

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We have had our 3.0 Ah battery out for well over a year now. This is a 4.0 Ah battery.

 

[greasy]

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Bucket full of trash if Milwaukee cant or doesn’t sell replacement switches for these drivers.

We usually get a year out of them or so give or take.

We used to use the 7.2 Dewalt screwdrivers but they were heavy and discontinued. These work great for about a year but then wear out.

Wish another brand made a small electric screwdriver like this with clutch settings and replaceable parts so I could rebuild them.

Does it need to be inline?

 

[FESTER665]

Any new FlexVolt shit I need to be on the lookout for greasy ???

 

[FESTER665]

Does it need to be inline?

Inline is preferred, but we are experimenting with the gun looking drivers to see if the girls like them.

These things are being used all day so we cant have them be too heavy, but need clutch settings because we need them to drive to torque specs that are fairly close to requirements and not just blow through the threaded areas of the parts being assembled.

Toyed around with the idea of the electric ones hanging on tool tenders, but the girls prefer them to be more portable, and doing the electric drivers at all the workbenches would be expensive as fuck too.

 

[greasy]

Any new FlexVolt shit I need to be on the lookout for greasy ???

We redid the FV grinder/recip/circ saws. They all have bigger motors and come with 9.0 Ah batteries in the kits, but I think I may have mentioned that. Outside of that late last year we launched some bad ass tools like a pipe threader and 2" SDS Max Combi Hammer, but that is for construction. Outside of that no, COVID kind of screwed up a lot of things for this year. I am sure 2021 will have some awesome launches, but I haven't seen the product road map come out yet.

 

[bikrboy128]

Bucket full of trash if Milwaukee cant or doesn’t sell replacement switches for these drivers.

We usually get a year out of them or so give or take.

We used to use the 7.2 Dewalt screwdrivers but they were heavy and discontinued. These work great for about a year but then wear out.

Wish another brand made a small electric screwdriver like this with clutch settings and replaceable parts so I could rebuild them.

no parts available for them? even grabbing the PN off the switch itself?

 

[FESTER665]

no parts available for them? even grabbing the PN off the switch itself?

Nothing that I can find. In the past I was usually able to find replacement parts for the DeWalt parts, but these I cant find a parts list at all.

Milwaukee Driver 2101-20

Switch is a Defond BGF-06R 1610B

The problem is the switch is soldered to the battery pack, then glued/epoxy over that. I ripped one of them apart to see how easy it would be to replace the switch, and if I have to desolder and resolder then it might end up being cost prohibitive to replace the part.

Hey greasy can you give me any input on this gyroscopic one? I assume theres not a switch to use the screwdriver and it turns based on twisting of the hand or something crazy?

 

[FESTER665]

Switch and battery connection are kind of all together as you can see, so switch replacement might just not be an option really....

Might figure the tool only is like $85 so it’s not worth it to repair them?

 

[GTPpower]

Kinda like this CP3 I've been rocking for 2 months now.?

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What do you think of those? Do they get similar run time to the 5.0? I've been eyeing those for awhile.

 

[DEEZUZ]

It's been a week and 1/2 since i charged mine and it's down 2 bars and I use it daily on my 3/8s... It's absolutely unreal

 

[GTPpower]

I should pick a couple up. I will usually get a couple days out of 5.0's on the impact drivers if they are being heavily used.

 

[DanJ]

I wonder if those new batteries are using 21700 cells instead of 18650. Would explain the width difference.

 

[greasy]

I wonder if those new batteries are using 21700 cells instead of 18650. Would explain the width difference.

They are!

 

[greasy]

Nothing that I can find. In the past I was usually able to find replacement parts for the DeWalt parts, but these I cant find a parts list at all.

Milwaukee Driver 2101-20

Switch is a Defond BGF-06R 1610B

The problem is the switch is soldered to the battery pack, then glued/epoxy over that. I ripped one of them apart to see how easy it would be to replace the switch, and if I have to desolder and resolder then it might end up being cost prohibitive to replace the part.

Hey greasy can you give me any input on this gyroscopic one? I assume theres not a switch to use the screwdriver and it turns based on twisting of the hand or something crazy?
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Exactly, the unit takes some getting used to

 

[DanJ]

They are!

Makes sense. I am somewhat in the loop on cells from the ecig world. The capacity vs size increase on the 21700’s is pretty impressive.

 

[greasy]

Makes sense. I am somewhat in the loop on cells from the ecig world. The capacity vs size increase on the 21700’s is pretty impressive.

You all about dat VAPELIFE bro.

 

[DanJ]

About to get some of those rally window vents for my rear windows.

 

[GTPpower]

DEEZUZ I broke my m12 ratchet. I ordered the impact ratchet, but I think I will still get another regular ratchet. Should I get the fuel version, or is the bigger head a pain sometimes?

 

[DEEZUZ]

Ugh yes. Im kinda sorta upset with the thing. It's ginormous. Definitely find myself using short sockets. But still glad I bought it