Today I acquired...........

Memmeddu · Monday at 7:04 PM

Another angle grinder but it's a special one...

1950's Metabo angle grinder

Mark 5 · Monday at 7:13 PM

Kram said:
Do they have any more?

I should assume so, I purchased them from Ali.

I purchased two first as I wasn't expecting the genuine thing, took 12 days to get to me and I was pleasantly surprised.

They look, behave and charge as absolutely legit, I can't imagine a company to go to that trouble to fake em', so I bought 4 more.

There are 4-5 companies on Ali claiming to sell the genuine thing.

JOEPRO · Monday at 7:27 PM

Mark 5 said:
I should assume so, I purchased them from Ali.

I purchased two first as I wasn't expecting the genuine thing, took 12 days to get to me and I was pleasantly surprised.

They look, behave and charge as absolutely legit, I can't imagine a company to go to that trouble to fake em', so I bought 4 more.

There are 4-5 companies on Ali claiming to sell the genuine thing.

I'd very strongly suspect just a highly accurate copy

JOEPRO · Monday at 7:33 PM

Mark 5 said:
I should assume so, I purchased them from Ali.

I purchased two first as I wasn't expecting the genuine thing, took 12 days to get to me and I was pleasantly surprised.

They look, behave and charge as absolutely legit, I can't imagine a company to go to that trouble to fake em', so I bought 4 more.

There are 4-5 companies on Ali claiming to sell the genuine thing.

Can you post photos of one of your new batteries please? All angles including label. I can compare to 100% authentic m18 batteries I have here. I'm curious myself about the Ali ones

Mark 5 · Monday at 8:13 PM

JOEPRO said:
Can you post photos of one of your new batteries please? All angles including label. I can compare to 100% authentic m18 batteries I have here. I'm curious myself about the Ali ones

Sure but they are Makita not M18 batteries.

JOEPRO · Monday at 8:19 PM

Mark 5 said:
Sure but they are Makita not M18 batteries.

Oops my bad!

Onoff · Monday at 8:30 PM

Mark 5 said:
I should assume so, I purchased them from Ali.

I purchased two first as I wasn't expecting the genuine thing, took 12 days to get to me and I was pleasantly surprised.

They look, behave and charge as absolutely legit, I can't imagine a company to go to that trouble to fake em', so I bought 4 more.

There are 4-5 companies on Ali claiming to sell the genuine thing.

Guess you'd have to whip the top off of both genuine original and "believed" genuine new one, then compare the PCBs and cells?

E T · Monday at 8:39 PM

Tigman said:
How much ? Hope thats not too rude a question ?

Too much, but that's not important. :laughing:

JOEPRO · Monday at 9:38 PM

Craig-SM said:
A Milwaukee 8.0 Ah Forge battery

Well it was my birthday yesterday and I was trying to make up my mind on High Output or Forge so took the gamble. Should keep my power hungry saws happy.

Interested to hear what you think of the forge battery when you have a chance to use it for a bit. I have alot of Milwaukee tools and all standard 5.0 batteries. May get a high output or forge one soon.

Kram · Monday at 10:05 PM

Mark 5 said:
I should assume so, I purchased them from Ali.

I purchased two first as I wasn't expecting the genuine thing, took 12 days to get to me and I was pleasantly surprised.

They look, behave and charge as absolutely legit, I can't imagine a company to go to that trouble to fake em', so I bought 4 more.

There are 4-5 companies on Ali claiming to sell the genuine thing.

It will be a clone. While they may or not be good, I think I'd prefer an obvious fake to one pretending to be the real thing.

I notice some.amazon listings which appear to be genuine batteries, are apparently genuine casings with clone innards, noticably without the cell balance connections wired up, therefore they have a short life and potentially dangerous. Worth opening them up to check!

See the reviews of this one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Makita-197280-8-BL1850B-Li-ion-Battery-Black/dp/B01JP78596

I imagine a result of the way amazon group listings and may have had one bad seller with fakes.

offthames · Monday at 10:08 PM

Some tools for tool kit I am making. All west German made
CK needle nose pliers 7 inch
CK wire strippers 6 inch
CK circuit tester
CK hex keys
Felo multi bit screwdriver
Stahlwille 3/8 socket set

Craig-SM · Tuesday at 8:02 AM

JOEPRO said:
Interested to hear what you think of the forge battery when you have a chance to use it for a bit. I have alot of Milwaukee tools and all standard 5.0 batteries. May get a high output or forge one soon.

Hopefully get to use it this weekend with the new plunge saw. I’ve got a few sheets of ply and mdf board to cut down so will have chance to compare 5ah, 9ah and the Forge 8ah.
All I’ve managed to do so far is charge it in a Rapid Charger (I can’t justify £200 on a supercharger) which took about an hour from 1 bar and it’s was noticeable cooler than other battery straight off the charger. Size wise it’s about the same dimensions and weight of the 9ah

Danez · Tuesday at 12:46 PM

got a small long reach air powered cut off tool for getting into awkward places, will come in handy for the talbot
will be a bit annoying wheeling the compressor out but got to take advantage of the cheaper and less bulky air tools compared to battery

Bullet2012 · Tuesday at 1:08 PM

A new card reader,
These things are no good for money laundering.
Top tip, always check pockets before putting stuff in the wash :laughing:

Seadog · Tuesday at 2:26 PM

Today, some scran

Also, some LED replacement lamps for a JVC tuner/amp.

That should the job :thumbup:

Craig-SM · Tuesday at 3:22 PM

Seadog said:
Today, some scran
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Also, some LED replacement lamps for a JVC tuner/amp.
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That should the job

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They are nice pies but I rate Di's Pies better and they'll be at Birstall's market day on Thursday and after seeing this post I think I'll be having Steak & Stilton and a Steak & Kidney for the wife. Yum!

Anyone not local that wants to try them

Home

www.dispies.com

Farside · Tuesday at 3:37 PM

One of these...

On cursory inspection, seems ok. I bought it mainly for the use of flat-ended blades for gasket scraping.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CGXM64Y2

MattF · Tuesday at 4:55 PM

Bullet2012 said:
Top tip, always check pockets before putting stuff in the wash

Sound advice. One of my little rechargeable lamps had a wash recently.

My Old Landy · Tuesday at 5:05 PM

From my late father's collection. The Boots film van says develop before 1991

I think that may be a little past its use by date!

Memmeddu · Tuesday at 6:23 PM

An ulcer
My colleague borrowed my engine driven welder three weeks ago.
He said it wasn't starting anymore after one week.
Then he found an excuse every single time I've asked him about going to take it back.
Today was the day...
He said he forgot about an important thing he has to do .
Then I've said him that I'll go there after he comes back home.
He changed colour
Now I'm concerned.
I'm going there in roughly an half hour to take it back .
Honestly
If it's broken things that happen, if it caught on fire idem, if the engine exploded same thing it could have been happened when I was using it myself but as an adult person tell me the truth.
It can have been stolen, unfortunately things that might happen but I want to know what.
Anyways I'm going to take it back home.
It's a material thing and he's a colleague I'm not going mad for that but it's enough annoying for me right now, because I don't know what happened to it or even if he still has it

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