06-22-2023, 09:33 PM
Slow round here.
My lithium charger and battery shelf in air conditioned laundry room,which was assembled quick and dirty, bare plywood held with two screws, is not quite large enough. I think am going to hang the blowers in there too.
I saw the neighbors were throwing out some cabinet doors.
I spied them.with binocs, then skated over.
Looks like solid cherry frame. One corner of one door was chipped.
They look extremely well made.
I don't think I could replicate them without 500$ more in tools and lots of practice on cheap lumber, before committing with a quality hardwood.
My old man pointed out a tree with a few dead limbs.
"You dont have to do it today'
I waited 2 weeks, till the summer solstice, noon, it was only 92f and 77% humidity.
Busted out 120vac bosch sawzall with pruning blade, 100' 12 awg extension cord, ladder, plywood feet for 6 ' step ladder.
CLeaned out a bunch of dry dead underbrush, determined which if the intertwined branches need to be cut, and where, but was standing on very top of unstable ladder holding onto tree at that point.
Basically if i were to attempt to use sawzall, standing onnthe very too of the Aframe ladder, I'd likely fall, onto grass.
Maybe 30 years ago I would have risked it.
"Dad, I need a taller step ladder, or a polesaw to get those ugly dead branches'
Hem haw no rush, not that important, makes no difference. ,cant be worth it.
Dad's predictable boilerplate.
2 days later, to my surprise,
A Dewalt 8" "20v" polesaw , with 4.0ah battery and charger, has been ordered.
It Was significantly less than Makita or Milwaukee options at the Despot.
The 20v "MAX" marketing is BS. It is still an 18v nominal battery system, like Ryobi, Ridgid, Makita, Milwaukee. 5 series cells, or 5 series, 2 parallel configuration for the 4.0ah or larger capacity batteries.
I know the usual recommendation is to pick one battery/tool system and stick with that tool brand, but the 20$ battery adapters nullify a lot of the argument.
They do add some height to the battery, might throw off some tool's balance perhaps not physically fit in some tools due to clearance issues.....
The Makita to rRidgid adapter on my modified elctrolux ergorapido does screw with the tilting head, requiring a bit more wrist input to steer normally, but it was the nobrainer option when my 4 Ridgid baTteries were all 20v plus and would not work in the modified vacuum, but 2 bar Makita was right there, click click snap go.
I found the electrolux original charge cradle and wall wart power supply/charger.
It says 18v, 100ma on the wart.
I measured a no load OCV of 19.12v
10 AA nimh cells in series, originally.
These are usually around 1.42v, fully charged, rested.
My AA eneloops need 2.37v each, to charge at 150ma.
1.91v per cell max, might be safe for all day low current safe e ough charging of NIMH, but far from Ideal.
No wonder the nimh battery performance was so dismal, even when new, and so much worse shortly after.
The 10 AA cells it came with, claim 1300mah capacity, at 1.2v nominal, so 15.6 watt hours of original battery capacity.
The ridgid 2.0v bTtery has 32 wh,
Makita and Ridgud 4.0, 72 wh
2x the power, 2x+, the capacity.
Wonder if he Dewalt '20V MAX' battery will claim 72, or 80wh.
Not sure i will pick up a Makita to Dewalt or Ridgid to Dewalt adapter, or the opposite. I dont see needing more than one battery for polesaw, on this property.
Now if i were to modify the polesaw to use as a propulsion wand for my skateboard,......
Probably aligned as a pusher would be more effective.
Hmmm.
My lithium charger and battery shelf in air conditioned laundry room,which was assembled quick and dirty, bare plywood held with two screws, is not quite large enough. I think am going to hang the blowers in there too.
I saw the neighbors were throwing out some cabinet doors.
I spied them.with binocs, then skated over.
Looks like solid cherry frame. One corner of one door was chipped.
They look extremely well made.
I don't think I could replicate them without 500$ more in tools and lots of practice on cheap lumber, before committing with a quality hardwood.
My old man pointed out a tree with a few dead limbs.
"You dont have to do it today'
I waited 2 weeks, till the summer solstice, noon, it was only 92f and 77% humidity.
Busted out 120vac bosch sawzall with pruning blade, 100' 12 awg extension cord, ladder, plywood feet for 6 ' step ladder.
CLeaned out a bunch of dry dead underbrush, determined which if the intertwined branches need to be cut, and where, but was standing on very top of unstable ladder holding onto tree at that point.
Basically if i were to attempt to use sawzall, standing onnthe very too of the Aframe ladder, I'd likely fall, onto grass.
Maybe 30 years ago I would have risked it.
"Dad, I need a taller step ladder, or a polesaw to get those ugly dead branches'
Hem haw no rush, not that important, makes no difference. ,cant be worth it.
Dad's predictable boilerplate.
2 days later, to my surprise,
A Dewalt 8" "20v" polesaw , with 4.0ah battery and charger, has been ordered.
It Was significantly less than Makita or Milwaukee options at the Despot.
The 20v "MAX" marketing is BS. It is still an 18v nominal battery system, like Ryobi, Ridgid, Makita, Milwaukee. 5 series cells, or 5 series, 2 parallel configuration for the 4.0ah or larger capacity batteries.
I know the usual recommendation is to pick one battery/tool system and stick with that tool brand, but the 20$ battery adapters nullify a lot of the argument.
They do add some height to the battery, might throw off some tool's balance perhaps not physically fit in some tools due to clearance issues.....
The Makita to rRidgid adapter on my modified elctrolux ergorapido does screw with the tilting head, requiring a bit more wrist input to steer normally, but it was the nobrainer option when my 4 Ridgid baTteries were all 20v plus and would not work in the modified vacuum, but 2 bar Makita was right there, click click snap go.
I found the electrolux original charge cradle and wall wart power supply/charger.
It says 18v, 100ma on the wart.
I measured a no load OCV of 19.12v
10 AA nimh cells in series, originally.
These are usually around 1.42v, fully charged, rested.
My AA eneloops need 2.37v each, to charge at 150ma.
1.91v per cell max, might be safe for all day low current safe e ough charging of NIMH, but far from Ideal.
No wonder the nimh battery performance was so dismal, even when new, and so much worse shortly after.
The 10 AA cells it came with, claim 1300mah capacity, at 1.2v nominal, so 15.6 watt hours of original battery capacity.
The ridgid 2.0v bTtery has 32 wh,
Makita and Ridgud 4.0, 72 wh
2x the power, 2x+, the capacity.
Wonder if he Dewalt '20V MAX' battery will claim 72, or 80wh.
Not sure i will pick up a Makita to Dewalt or Ridgid to Dewalt adapter, or the opposite. I dont see needing more than one battery for polesaw, on this property.
Now if i were to modify the polesaw to use as a propulsion wand for my skateboard,......
Probably aligned as a pusher would be more effective.
Hmmm.
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