Tools you wish you'd bought sooner...

[Northernboy]

nyt said:

May not be useful for you, but if anyone has a 3D printer:

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3760975

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4689929
(not battery mimic but I prefer this style)

I'm planning to print some of these; I've been using my printer to make all sorts of pegboard hooks and brackets recently; it's quite enjoyable making something exactly right for each tool.

[normalbloke]

classicaholic said:

Muncher said:

https://www.batterymounts.com/ - made in the uk by one of my friends

Neat idea but £17.99 just to hold a battery! make DeWalt look cheap!

There are many people making these, I think it’s their new pension fund having discovered 3D printing.

[normalbloke]

classicaholic said:

Muncher said:

https://www.batterymounts.com/ - made in the uk by one of my friends

Neat idea but £17.99 just to hold a battery! make DeWalt look cheap!

That’s a pack of 5 battery holders to be fair. Which isn’t unreasonable when you think some of the batteries can be £200 each, you don’t really want it smashing about.

[the cueball]

Recently got the Airhawk "pro" after seeing it mentioned a few times on here..

Jeez, what a piece of ste..

Couldn't top up a 20" tyre from 38psi to 40psi...

Couldn't blow up a flat 110 motorcycle tyre.

Did I get a bad asthmatic one or something?? maybe.. anyway, it got sent back for a refund and I'm back to using my bulky compressor!

[paulrockliffe]

Look on Pinterest for drill holders.

There's loads of options on there, but basically a shelf to sit your batteries on, mount the charger somewhere. Then cut a slot out of some short lengths of plastic pipe, screw to the bottom of the shelf and slide the drill bodies in.

I'd quite like a setup where you can leave all your batteries connected to a charger and have it cycle on for an hour a week or something so the batteries are always nicely full, but I haven't worked that out yet.

[paulrockliffe]

the cueball said:

Recently got the Airhawk "pro" after seeing it mentioned a few times on here..

Jeez, what a piece of ste..

Couldn't top up a 20" tyre from 38psi to 40psi...

Couldn't blow up a flat 110 motorcycle tyre.

Did I get a bad asthmatic one or something?? maybe.. anyway, it got sent back for a refund and I'm back to using my bulky compressor!

They're all ste I expect if you have a compressor. I'd spend the money plumbing in an air line to where you park the car so the compressor is really convenient.

I have a small compressor, not a tiny one but the next size up, it fits nicely in the footwell behind the passenger seat and easily in the boot, so if I need air when I go mountain biking or whatever I just fill the compressor and load it in.

[LeadFarmer]

the cueball said:

Recently got the Airhawk "pro" after seeing it mentioned a few times on here..

Jeez, what a piece of ste..

Couldn't top up a 20" tyre from 38psi to 40psi...

Couldn't blow up a flat 110 motorcycle tyre.

Did I get a bad asthmatic one or something?? maybe.. anyway, it got sent back for a refund and I'm back to using my bulky compressor!

I use mine lots, pumping up my caravan tyres to 60psi, trailer tyres to 50psi etc. Did my wheel barrows and pushbikes with it yesterday. I can't fault it, works perfectly.

[Rehab chic]

paulrockliffe said:

I'd quite like a setup where you can leave all your batteries connected to a charger and have it cycle on for an hour a week or something so the batteries are always nicely full, but I haven't worked that out yet.

Charger on a 7 day time switch. Or lots of chargers on lots of weekly time switches. The latter probably not very cheap though.

[paulrockliffe]

Rehab chic said:

Charger on a 7 day time switch. Or lots of chargers on lots of weekly time switches. The latter probably not very cheap though.

Yeah, or I can get power connectors for powering things from the battery and connect a load of those through relays so I can swap them on and off the charger, but its' not simple.

Just tried to print one of those battery mounts, Cura open it at 3mm length, so hunting for another file.

[Northernboy]

paulrockliffe said:

Yeah, or I can get power connectors for powering things from the battery and connect a load of those through relays so I can swap them on and off the charger, but its' not simple.

Just tried to print one of those battery mounts, Cura open it at 3mm length, so hunting for another file.

Can't you scale it up in Cura?

[gazzarose]

normalbloke said:

classicaholic said:

Muncher said:

https://www.batterymounts.com/ - made in the uk by one of my friends

Neat idea but £17.99 just to hold a battery! make DeWalt look cheap!

That’s a pack of 5 battery holders to be fair. Which isn’t unreasonable when you think some of the batteries can be £200 each, you don’t really want it smashing about.

That's the sort of recommendation I like, as much as we all rather spend a quid less on some China made crap, I'd rather buy from a UK guy. I'll order some later. A hand ful of battery ones and a few tool ones will do for now.

[Muncher]

gazzarose said:

That's the sort of recommendation I like, as much as we all rather spend a quid less on some China made crap, I'd rather buy from a UK guy. I'll order some later. A hand ful of battery ones and a few tool ones will do for now.

His are all designed and built in house in Essex, including the tooling, they are injection moulded, not 3D printed.

[LeadFarmer]

gazzarose said:

normalbloke said:

classicaholic said:

Muncher said:

https://www.batterymounts.com/ - made in the uk by one of my friends

Neat idea but £17.99 just to hold a battery! make DeWalt look cheap!

That’s a pack of 5 battery holders to be fair. Which isn’t unreasonable when you think some of the batteries can be £200 each, you don’t really want it smashing about.

That's the sort of recommendation I like, as much as we all rather spend a quid less on some China made crap, I'd rather buy from a UK guy. I'll order some later. A hand ful of battery ones and a few tool ones will do for now.

In an ideal world my wife wouldn't exist (she's served her purpose) and I'd have loads of these mounts fitted to the walls of every room in my house.
Sadly the wife does exist, and I haven't got these mounts in every room.

Edited by LeadFarmer on Wednesday 16th June 09:08

[gazzarose]

LeadFarmer said:

gazzarose said:

normalbloke said:

classicaholic said:

Muncher said:

https://www.batterymounts.com/ - made in the uk by one of my friends

Neat idea but £17.99 just to hold a battery! make DeWalt look cheap!

That’s a pack of 5 battery holders to be fair. Which isn’t unreasonable when you think some of the batteries can be £200 each, you don’t really want it smashing about.

That's the sort of recommendation I like, as much as we all rather spend a quid less on some China made crap, I'd rather buy from a UK guy. I'll order some later. A hand ful of battery ones and a few tool ones will do for now.

In an ideal world my wife wouldn't exist (she's served her purpose) and I'd have loads of these mounts fitted to the walls of every room in my house.
Sadly the wife does exist, and I haven't got these mounts in every room.

Edited by LeadFarmer on Wednesday 16th June 09:08

Tell your mate thank you. I ordered them yesterday, and they arrived in the mail this morning!

[eltax91]

gazzarose said:

LeadFarmer said:

gazzarose said:

normalbloke said:

classicaholic said:

Muncher said:

https://www.batterymounts.com/ - made in the uk by one of my friends

Neat idea but £17.99 just to hold a battery! make DeWalt look cheap!

That’s a pack of 5 battery holders to be fair. Which isn’t unreasonable when you think some of the batteries can be £200 each, you don’t really want it smashing about.

That's the sort of recommendation I like, as much as we all rather spend a quid less on some China made crap, I'd rather buy from a UK guy. I'll order some later. A hand ful of battery ones and a few tool ones will do for now.

In an ideal world my wife wouldn't exist (she's served her purpose) and I'd have loads of these mounts fitted to the walls of every room in my house.
Sadly the wife does exist, and I haven't got these mounts in every room.

Edited by LeadFarmer on Wednesday 16th June 09:08

Tell your mate thank you. I ordered them yesterday, and they arrived in the mail this morning!

I found his eBay shop and bought some today. Marked as posted within about 30 minutes

[paulrockliffe]

Northernboy said:

paulrockliffe said:

Yeah, or I can get power connectors for powering things from the battery and connect a load of those through relays so I can swap them on and off the charger, but its' not simple.

Just tried to print one of those battery mounts, Cura open it at 3mm length, so hunting for another file.

Can't you scale it up in Cura?

Yes I can, but it was much easier to find a file that works than to find my battery and measure it to work out what to scale it up to.

Done 3 Makita mounts and now I'm printing a couple of Dewalt ones for my Dad.

[Northernboy]

paulrockliffe said:

Yes I can, but it was much easier to find a file that works than to find my battery and measure it to work out what to scale it up to.

Done 3 Makita mounts and now I'm printing a couple of Dewalt ones for my Dad.

Was it mm/inch difference?

[ChevronB19]

Slightly O/T, but up to 44% off hand tools at Demon Tweeks at the moment.

No idea if the ‘sale’ prices are any good though.

https://www.demon-tweeks.com/uk/tools-workshop/han...

[JimbobVFR]

paulrockliffe said:

I'd quite like a setup where you can leave all your batteries connected to a charger and have it cycle on for an hour a week or something so the batteries are always nicely full, but I haven't worked that out yet.

Back in the day when I was a spark and still using NiMh I did have 3 chargers on timer plugs but I'm not convinced it's worth it for modern L-ion batteries.

[Northernboy]

JimbobVFR said:

Back in the day when I was a spark and still using NiMh I did have 3 chargers on timer plugs but I'm not convinced it's worth it for modern L-ion batteries.

I think that you’re right. If they are going to be unused for a while then leaving them at 80-90% is probably fine.

Give them a top-up for twenty minutes before using.