hi, im from the big bs company, enjoy your brainwashed life,,everything is fine.. ever watched 60,s futuristic movies.. there all tru.. like soylent green.. another film, a program would stop, look at you, ask a question, if you got it wrong,,it wasnt good.. were being farmed.. klaus schwab, is hitler re incarnate..
Yeah if they're going to completely change it they should change the name then too and they were already set up for that That's a easy fix for them anyway
The problem is we can't be invested in all the shades of red, teal, yellow, blue, black, etc, from a batteria standpoint. I'm a card-carrying Makita man myself. I'm not saying they make all the best tools, but they make all the tools that fit my hundreds of dollars or batteries.
@@MrSleepProductionsIncThey also kill batteries if you use them on high drain tools cause they'll run them below voltage without shutting off and lithium batteries don't like that to happen to many times
I bought into Milwaukee m18 when they only really had the basics--drill, impact driver, sawzall, circ saw, etc. It's insane how many specialized tools they've developed on the same battery platform now.
@@evictioncarpentry2628 Yea, that may be something to look out for. I don’t know about the other brands but Milwaukee M18 batteries have a built in bms that will shut off the battery before it gets too low.
Thanks for posting the truth. It is hard to believe that an expensive tool like that did not have the circuit board coated with conformal compound or some other waterproofing agent.
Conformal coatings should be applied generously AT THE FACTORY. But I'd guess that the extra few pennies for the chemicals & the applicators' time & the drying time to cure the coating[s] cause profits to slump. Keep your dick in a vice & your cheap power tools out of the rain... Expensive, professional tools have conformal-coated circuit boards inside. Take a look for yourself...
I have used LPS for nigh onto 50 years. Used to work for a company that sold it. The #3 is great for keeping things from rusting especially if stored outside
My wife sat in a class taught by a fella who used to work as a marketing exec at WD-40. He confessed to the class that they couldn't figure out a way to boost sales because the market was saturated with their products, so they floated a bunch of ideas, one of which was to put an expiration date on the can, I isht you not. What they actually ended up doing, and he didn't say this, but it was that they kept the can the same size and put, you guessed it, less in the can! I noticed this because a can of WD-40 used to last you forever. Now, you go through it like toilet paper. I one upped them and buy it by the gallon now and put it in the spray bottle to row my own boat so to speak. I've been pulling on that gallon for going on 3 years now and it's still 2/3 full. I would've gone through a dozen of the jumbo cans in the meantime. Something good they ended up doing though was putting those straws on the top that don't fall off and they offered a bunch of other stuff under the same brand like lithium grease and what not. I thought those were fair upgrades to the brand. I use those tops on a bunch of other stuff. Annoyed to hear that they're giving you a hard time, but it's not surprising given the horrible things they were discussing and even ended up doing. Marketing people are pure evil, and if you let them run your company, they'll likely run it right into the ground. Their whole existence is based off propping up dying or dusty old brands in saturated markets rather than innovate and/or just accept the reality that you're gonna have steady revenues from here on out. I hate them. Also, screw the government, and especially that ashat Turdeau.
Same thing happened with Var-Sol back a few decades ago. Old stuff would clean anything off of a car (and eat the car itself if you left it in the bucket too long). New stuff is gah-bage.
can't really say the same thing if the yellow/teal versions of said tools at least have better electrical potting though. Which they both do, as they aren't sprayed down with a thin conformal coating that allows rust from a screw to seep in. Both versions of this same sort of tool are fully potted and thus have better water resistance on that fact alone. M12 always gets pretty gimpy water resistance regardless. As do lower end brushless (aka non-Fuel) M18.
Dear Uncle Bumble Fork, what aboot Ether, YOU know, Ethyl's second cousin twice removed? How will the Folks of Canaduhar start their engines 9 months out of the year if they cancel Ether?
Send it to me in Kelowna and I'll fix it. Likely just a couple traces are corroded or a shorted mosfet. I love these little fixes. Just fixed my Miller corldess TIG pedal. $1000+ for a new one and the part to repair it was 25 cents (+$20 in shipping). Driving to Cabo in four days though, so I can't get to it until Christmas.
After cleaning the board, that was a very hesitant push of the button with a bldc attached to a spinning wheel of death. The rotation of the disk and counter rotation of the motor would have made for some exciting RUclips content.
A few years ago I tried to get a can of high heat aluminum paint for my boilers. Couldn’t get it, was banned due to the volatile organic compounds. However, high heat cloudy grey was allowed. My boilers are now a Frankenstein of paint, thanks government. Also, what the hell was wrong with mercoid switches! Now, I have this mechanical nonsense that fails all the time. Mercoid would last 20+ years, mechanical 5 if you’re lucky.
I don't know, it looks like that's just the corrosion on top, looks okay around 3:26, though I'd like more testing of all the switches and battery connections to confirm continuity.
You should be able to use any three phase brushless DC motor driver board. Like commonly used in RC hobby vehicles. Should be able to pick something suitable up for ~£15, then you need to feed it a PWM signal to make it chooch. Servo tester can deliver that, wire in your trigger pot in place of the servo tester pot. She'll ride again!
This is one of the few milsukee tools that if it was my first milsukee purchase I would never buy another Milsukee tool. I have everything from the lights all the way up to the cordless pony's and most everything is very well built for the job.
You can buy a generic brushless motor board to replace it. Even with support for the hall sensors, but that is a bit more fiddly. Would be kind of fun to see tho
Would love to see micro board repair! Doesn’t make sense financially but more for the “can it be fixed “ aspect.. Or even if you sent it to another RUclips channel to be fixed like a collaboration.
With liquid damage on circuit boards do a clean and then reflow the components with good flux and a hot air station. It will revive around 50% of dead boards.
Glad to see you used your Anti-Static Yard brush made me shudder after having to do 3M re-certification for Static precautions every 6 months at Mitel...
You cannot make this stuff up. I was working security overnight at a scrap metal place that processed scrap metal that they then sold to other recyclers for further processing or to forges for smelting. They would get these big 4 foot by 4 foot by 4 foot totes of metal turnings that would be coated in oil left over from the other companies manufacturing process. Well one night these turnings, which are still smoking hot, managed to auto ignite the oil. The fire department showed up, put the fire out, and the fire investigator said the cause of the fire was water. I heard that and kinda shook my head while quietly laughing at the whole thing. Because if water was the source of the fire, why would dumping water on it be able to put it out. Keep in mind fire needs three things to burn It needs fuel, heat, and oxygen. The oil was the fuel, the heat came from the metal still being hot, and the oxygen, well need I say more. So what the water was doing was cooling the metal to the point that the metal was no longer hot enough to keep the oil from combusting.
I am against those corporate shills! I used to be a chemical operator for companies that made WD40 and brake cleaner and so on. I'm like y'all's sister on Tuesday.... Lose lips
Not protecting the circuit board in a tool that will likely get wat at some point and will definetly be exposed to metal dust... That's the problem with Milwaukee. Nice tools, till you use them hard and the electronics die. On one jobsite we were going through a super sawzall every week or two, and angle drills once a month. There were other tools that took the abuse just fine.
I noticed that press release from WD-40, though I was unaware of any kind of PR campaign related. Is there any confirmation anywhere that the product is being "re-formulated"? I'm not accusing you, I'm genuinely curious. I don't want to stock up on a big pile of blue cans if I don't need to.
I bought a Bauer one of these for like 40 bucks. Works great, I’ve used it quite a bit on plank flooring. When it craps out I’ll get another one and still won’t be close to paying for just one of these brands.
They came for the WD and I said nothing. They came for the Hairspray and I said nothing. Then they came for the Whippets and I said, "Okay, hold it right there, you animals - this is BEYOND the pale!!!"
And also Bumbleforks around in the kitchen too....wich keeps Mrs Bumblefuck happy, which in turn means Old Uncle Bumblefuck has a great sexlife too....fukkin lucky bar steward that 7-11 bum is😅😂💪
Question. Could we see a frankentool project? Board from this, brushless motor from that, glass fiber resin casment from under the healing bench…. A pinch of majik pixys??
Doll hairs to donuts it’s the MOSFETs that died. Just measure ohms between any two of the three pins and if you get a short, then it’s time to solder a new one on. There should be 3 or 6 MOSFETs, check em all.
Well, she's done. My employer recently eliminated all aerosols in the shop, which is great, except for now I can't get an oil based paint for the wheels. Ever tried to prevent rust with a brush on water based paint? It doesn't end well. It was bad enough having to do the brown bumpers, but now trying to get rid of wheel rust in a place that's thoroughly bought into Big Salt is not an easy time.
Manufacturer: makes a cardboard package that you must rip open/destroy Customer: my product was broken right out from box and i will use my right to return it for full refund. Manufacturer: No you destroyed the packaging and has lowered the value of the product and need to pay us now by law.
I feel like that PCB is repairable. Dead trace, dead cap, or dead resistor most likely. Is it worth your time? Probably not. But for someone out there it certainly is possible to fix that board - even if you have the change the microprocessor. Just hate to let fixable things die.
Content suggestion: take some circuit boards that work, put a cleaner on them and scrub them with that brush and then see if they still work afterwards.
A new form of planned obsolescence. My 10 year old angle makita grinder still makes me happy and I don't have to worry about batteries.. No need for another
In my days of consumer electronics someone had a heater core leak into their car stereo, they sprayed WD-40 into it turned something repairable into a mess by liquifying the solder mask. Not for electronics. Can you still by the old formula in gallon cans and old fashioned pump spray bottles?
I’ve had mine for two years and did many things I shouldn’t have with it.. It’s been soaked in oil, water and has cut 1” 4 wire hydraulic hose. That was until I bought a 5 inch grinder
Ok.... so how hard would it be to refurb the thing with a brushed motor of similar stature and gusto that had a far higher life span? Making adapting gears/belts/pulleys might be the sticking points, but correct me if im wrong, the metal spinny bits above the brain box/power system still work they just need a prime mover?
For most people that earn money with their tools it wouldn't be worth it, but I have been curious about retrofitting a hobby ESC to run a brushless tool. Tons of limitations and caveats, but maybe end up with a little more tool life, and a somewhat interesting experience.
That thing has 5 year warranty. Just take it in and get a new one. My local milwaukee shop is awesome. Tools ive beat the absolute crap out of for 3+ years and took it in, they just gave me a new replacement
Here is a request for the King of the North. I have two Milwaukee portabands both of which “no longer chooch”. The trigger switch /triac? Speed control ist kaput. Big Red says the saws are obsolete, no switches available, no conversion kits available. WTF? Are parts available in the Great White North? Can this piddley-ass part be hot wired? Do I stand a prayer of component-level repair?
i have a non-fuel rotary tool m12 but i got it a bit wet cutting some glass (with a water drip to prevent cracking of the glass). electronicals are fucked. but that dewalt teardown, they covered everything nicely so you could piss in the ventilation slats and it would be fine.
" mins wiotth a swade brush (very soft brass brissels ) ...on the brain box board............ and it will amaze you how well it cleans it up, I've done this on old graphics cards before and it does work. not a 100% thing bu if it's got the solder in tthe right places it will work.
i never buy wd40, i always end up having someone leave a can at my shop. i only use it to help remove exhaust hangers. give it a little spritzin and the rubbers slide right off. i use the good stuff for actual rust penetration and work.
i beat the holy hell out of my m18 stuff, gets used daily at work, covered in grease and hosed off with brake kleen, dropped from hoist arms, ect. one of my battery's shell was falling apart so i bought a new shell for it and when swapping it out i noticed the bms was date stamped 2012, then i remembered it came with my first m18 tool i bought, a 3/8 impact, which also still works. meanwhile i have a pile of maybe 20+ knockoff m18 and m12 batteries that i need to fix.
I've had some luck fixing corroded circuit boards by using an ultrasonic cleaner and deionized water. Allow the board to completely (like for real) dry out before supplying power or its toast for good. May be worth an experiment.
There are a few testpoints that could be worth probing for voltage to get some guage of what the problem is. That testpoint marked VCC on the bottom edge is a good place to start Also, its very likely that the corrosion is worse on the back side of the board, between the heatsink and the board. Worth a shot to clean it up ?
well its cost effective to not water proof the components inside so they die and you have to replace it or send it in to get it referbished and still same shit happens due to the lack of corosion resistance i just love electronics today board too small to diagnose/fix anything but hell if i put a small coating of water resistant coating on it to protect against corosion
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Hi, I’m calling from Big Hairspray. There is no shortage, everything is fine.
hi, im from the big bs company, enjoy your brainwashed life,,everything is fine.. ever watched 60,s futuristic movies.. there all tru.. like soylent green.. another film, a program would stop, look at you, ask a question, if you got it wrong,,it wasnt good.. were being farmed.. klaus schwab, is hitler re incarnate..
Bravo! Chef's kiss! I almost chocked on my coffee! Your sense of humour is on point! Thank you! 💝
“Big Hairdo”. It was right there..
There’s no shortage because it’s not a shortage. It’s Castro Jr.’s ban.
Correct, there is no shortage! Demand simply exceeded supply.
Maybe we'll finally get the long-awaited WD-41
my thoughts exactly.
50% less for 100% more
@@disband_thebbc5933 😂🤣
Yeah if they're going to completely change it they should change the name then too and they were already set up for that That's a easy fix for them anyway
Except it wouldn't be WD-41, being a step back in its effectiveness, I'd called it WD-20.
So that's the grinder that's causing all the damage to those underwater cables.
top tool tip: don't use your cordless grinder under water. It'll avoid early failure.
Got it, use corded for underwater use.
@@Dood_ Like those Russian dudes.
@@Dood_ air cord
@@Dood_ That gives me an idea. Cordless toaster.
I know from irrigation service that brushed cordless makita drills work underwater
The problem is we can't be invested in all the shades of red, teal, yellow, blue, black, etc, from a batteria standpoint. I'm a card-carrying Makita man myself. I'm not saying they make all the best tools, but they make all the tools that fit my hundreds of dollars or batteries.
Battery adapters. Not the best thing ever but they allow me to run some low use Bauer tools with an M18 battery.
@@MrSleepProductionsIncThey also kill batteries if you use them on high drain tools cause they'll run them below voltage without shutting off and lithium batteries don't like that to happen to many times
I bought into Milwaukee m18 when they only really had the basics--drill, impact driver, sawzall, circ saw, etc. It's insane how many specialized tools they've developed on the same battery platform now.
I got a ton of dead black and yellow batteries, but not one dead cryobe. Even got one 7 years old still goin.
@@evictioncarpentry2628 Yea, that may be something to look out for. I don’t know about the other brands but Milwaukee M18 batteries have a built in bms that will shut off the battery before it gets too low.
Your video about the WD40 change caused a panic buying spree of the old formula in Australia. Such is the power of AvE
Thats hilarious and concerning
Id bet theres a guy in every shop who knows a few AVE one liners
Thanks for posting the truth. It is hard to believe that an expensive tool like that did not have the circuit board coated with conformal compound or some other waterproofing agent.
Is it morally correct to still use the old non-fucky WD-40 if you have some left?
HOW DARE YOU!
Yes go for it
of course, chucking it in the fucketbucket is wasteful
Only the fish an the manufuckers will know ca8se your not buying more of this godless product
Repackage that into a WD-39 bottle this instant! @@arduinoversusevil2025
Maybe we should start conformal coating the circuit boards in our own tools. Wait, that comes in a spray can too.
Conformal coatings should be applied generously AT THE FACTORY. But I'd guess that the extra few pennies for the chemicals & the applicators' time & the drying time to cure the coating[s] cause profits to slump. Keep your dick in a vice & your cheap power tools out of the rain... Expensive, professional tools have conformal-coated circuit boards inside. Take a look for yourself...
The worst part is the energy and oil wasted in throwing that tool out and buying a new one the can of spray is less wastefull and polluting.
Dow corning makes some that comes in a bottle.
just clear coat automotive spray is good enough.....
Clear nail polish / varnish.
Just don't tell your wife 😂
I have used LPS for nigh onto 50 years. Used to work for a company that sold it. The #3 is great for keeping things from rusting especially if stored outside
Storing my LPS outside would be really inconvenient.
LPS is good stuff!
AvE always speaks the truth!! Sometimes I don't really understand him, but that's on me. Rock On AvE!
My wife sat in a class taught by a fella who used to work as a marketing exec at WD-40. He confessed to the class that they couldn't figure out a way to boost sales because the market was saturated with their products, so they floated a bunch of ideas, one of which was to put an expiration date on the can, I isht you not. What they actually ended up doing, and he didn't say this, but it was that they kept the can the same size and put, you guessed it, less in the can! I noticed this because a can of WD-40 used to last you forever. Now, you go through it like toilet paper. I one upped them and buy it by the gallon now and put it in the spray bottle to row my own boat so to speak. I've been pulling on that gallon for going on 3 years now and it's still 2/3 full. I would've gone through a dozen of the jumbo cans in the meantime.
Something good they ended up doing though was putting those straws on the top that don't fall off and they offered a bunch of other stuff under the same brand like lithium grease and what not. I thought those were fair upgrades to the brand. I use those tops on a bunch of other stuff. Annoyed to hear that they're giving you a hard time, but it's not surprising given the horrible things they were discussing and even ended up doing. Marketing people are pure evil, and if you let them run your company, they'll likely run it right into the ground. Their whole existence is based off propping up dying or dusty old brands in saturated markets rather than innovate and/or just accept the reality that you're gonna have steady revenues from here on out. I hate them.
Also, screw the government, and especially that ashat Turdeau.
"Tried nothing, and all out of ideas" loved it. 😂
The Simpsons' quote
Same thing happened with Var-Sol back a few decades ago. Old stuff would clean anything off of a car (and eat the car itself if you left it in the bucket too long). New stuff is gah-bage.
Those red tools work better when you don't leave them outside in the rain. I think the same can be said for the yellow and the teal tools as well.
Hmmm, maybe it's the tool part and not the colour, interesting...
can't really say the same thing if the yellow/teal versions of said tools at least have better electrical potting though. Which they both do, as they aren't sprayed down with a thin conformal coating that allows rust from a screw to seep in. Both versions of this same sort of tool are fully potted and thus have better water resistance on that fact alone.
M12 always gets pretty gimpy water resistance regardless. As do lower end brushless (aka non-Fuel) M18.
I concur. The several makita tools I’ve opened up had fully potted brain boxes.
I've run my cordless Makita drill underwater several times, I keep expecting it to die but she's a skookum choocher!
Red tool is much more expensive and you don't get a potted board for your money? Hmmmmmm
Absolutely love your videos keep doing what you are doing never miss one ,,👍
If it's an entirely new formula... wouldn't that make it WD-41?
Best ”Get the fuck outta here” i’ve ever heard!!! ❤
Dear Uncle Bumble Fork, what aboot Ether, YOU know, Ethyl's second cousin twice removed?
How will the Folks of Canaduhar start their engines 9 months out of the year if they cancel Ether?
Send it to me in Kelowna and I'll fix it. Likely just a couple traces are corroded or a shorted mosfet. I love these little fixes. Just fixed my Miller corldess TIG pedal. $1000+ for a new one and the part to repair it was 25 cents (+$20 in shipping). Driving to Cabo in four days though, so I can't get to it until Christmas.
The mosfet was blown in half, plain as day.
You're right, the m12 will bog down when i cut tile for a shower valve. 5 year warranty always comes through though
After cleaning the board, that was a very hesitant push of the button with a bldc attached to a spinning wheel of death. The rotation of the disk and counter rotation of the motor would have made for some exciting RUclips content.
A few years ago I tried to get a can of high heat aluminum paint for my boilers. Couldn’t get it, was banned due to the volatile organic compounds. However, high heat cloudy grey was allowed. My boilers are now a Frankenstein of paint, thanks government. Also, what the hell was wrong with mercoid switches! Now, I have this mechanical nonsense that fails all the time. Mercoid would last 20+ years, mechanical 5 if you’re lucky.
As others have mentioned there is a high power component clearly blown at 0:51-0:52 Silkscreen says D2 (Diode?)
I don't know, it looks like that's just the corrosion on top, looks okay around 3:26, though I'd like more testing of all the switches and battery connections to confirm continuity.
I just double checked. It's intact. The green smutz made it look blown.
You should be able to use any three phase brushless DC motor driver board. Like commonly used in RC hobby vehicles. Should be able to pick something suitable up for ~£15, then you need to feed it a PWM signal to make it chooch. Servo tester can deliver that, wire in your trigger pot in place of the servo tester pot. She'll ride again!
I bought A gallon of WD 4 years ago or so and I haven't even used a tenth of it.
Ill be set on WD for life.
It might be worth 10X what you paid for it.
@@richspillman4191well, ten times WD 4 would indeed make WD 40 😁
This is one of the few milsukee tools that if it was my first milsukee purchase I would never buy another Milsukee tool. I have everything from the lights all the way up to the cordless pony's and most everything is very well built for the job.
Kroil is the 💩 I don’t know why people are still buying WD-40
*insert comment about WD-40 here*
White dude 40’s
Remember New Coke?
Your videos make my day everyday.
You can buy a generic brushless motor board to replace it. Even with support for the hall sensors, but that is a bit more fiddly.
Would be kind of fun to see tho
Would love to see micro board repair! Doesn’t make sense financially but more for the “can it be fixed “ aspect..
Or even if you sent it to another RUclips channel to be fixed like a collaboration.
the electronics group assembly on those usually costs $40 more than the entire tool
With liquid damage on circuit boards do a clean and then reflow the components with good flux and a hot air station. It will revive around 50% of dead boards.
Glad to see you used your Anti-Static Yard brush made me shudder after having to do 3M re-certification for Static precautions every 6 months at Mitel...
You cannot make this stuff up.
I was working security overnight at a scrap metal place that processed scrap metal that they then sold to other recyclers for further processing or to forges for smelting.
They would get these big 4 foot by 4 foot by 4 foot totes of metal turnings that would be coated in oil left over from the other companies manufacturing process.
Well one night these turnings, which are still smoking hot, managed to auto ignite the oil. The fire department showed up, put the fire out, and the fire investigator said the cause of the fire was water.
I heard that and kinda shook my head while quietly laughing at the whole thing. Because if water was the source of the fire, why would dumping water on it be able to put it out.
Keep in mind fire needs three things to burn
It needs fuel, heat, and oxygen. The oil was the fuel, the heat came from the metal still being hot, and the oxygen, well need I say more. So what the water was doing was cooling the metal to the point that the metal was no longer hot enough to keep the oil from combusting.
I am against those corporate shills! I used to be a chemical operator for companies that made WD40 and brake cleaner and so on. I'm like y'all's sister on Tuesday.... Lose lips
Sink ships?
That's a shame. My daughter bought the lightweight battery SDS drill from the same range and it is awesome. Hope it doesn't fail soon.
Not protecting the circuit board in a tool that will likely get wat at some point and will definetly be exposed to metal dust...
That's the problem with Milwaukee. Nice tools, till you use them hard and the electronics die. On one jobsite we were going through a super sawzall every week or two, and angle drills once a month. There were other tools that took the abuse just fine.
I noticed that press release from WD-40, though I was unaware of any kind of PR campaign related. Is there any confirmation anywhere that the product is being "re-formulated"? I'm not accusing you, I'm genuinely curious. I don't want to stock up on a big pile of blue cans if I don't need to.
"Milwaukee tools should be waterproof off the line." Says the Plumber.
I bought a Bauer one of these for like 40 bucks. Works great, I’ve used it quite a bit on plank flooring. When it craps out I’ll get another one and still won’t be close to paying for just one of these brands.
They came for the WD and I said nothing. They came for the Hairspray and I said nothing. Then they came for the Whippets and I said, "Okay, hold it right there, you animals - this is BEYOND the pale!!!"
If they change the formula of motor mortician there might be an earth shattering scream from south of the river in oilberta.
Part engineer, part poet, part crazy 7-11 bum screaming at random passersby. Subscribed.
And also Bumbleforks around in the kitchen too....wich keeps Mrs Bumblefuck happy, which in turn means Old Uncle Bumblefuck has a great sexlife too....fukkin lucky bar steward that 7-11 bum is😅😂💪
I stayed unsubscribed for a few months now and still get the videos in my feed. Oh and I love your rants, 99.9% of the time your spot on!
Dykem changed their formula in the past four years. Now it's awful layout fluid, but as nail polish and shirt stain it's better than ever.
Was getting sketchy there when you mentioned the hairspray my wife was in earshot 😂 keep your **** in a vice
Question. Could we see a frankentool project? Board from this, brushless motor from that, glass fiber resin casment from under the healing bench…. A pinch of majik pixys??
Doll hairs to donuts it’s the MOSFETs that died. Just measure ohms between any two of the three pins and if you get a short, then it’s time to solder a new one on. There should be 3 or 6 MOSFETs, check em all.
Well, she's done.
My employer recently eliminated all aerosols in the shop, which is great, except for now I can't get an oil based paint for the wheels. Ever tried to prevent rust with a brush on water based paint? It doesn't end well. It was bad enough having to do the brown bumpers, but now trying to get rid of wheel rust in a place that's thoroughly bought into Big Salt is not an easy time.
Sounds like a warranty issue. Factory defect and all.
WD-40.5
The motor drivers basically take DC power and convert it to a 3-phase power supply (with adjustable frequency and amplitude).
I wish we could find out what firm got subcontracted to make this dewilt. Its rare to see a good tool I'm tempted to buy one just to wallet-vote
I'd like those parts to tinker with. I'll trade you some hairspray 😁
What I can’t figure out is why the manufacturers don’t offer water resistant models and charge double.
Manufacturer: makes a cardboard package that you must rip open/destroy
Customer: my product was broken right out from box and i will use my right to return it for full refund.
Manufacturer: No you destroyed the packaging and has lowered the value of the product and need to pay us now by law.
Sticking to the man! Love it!
I feel like that PCB is repairable. Dead trace, dead cap, or dead resistor most likely. Is it worth your time? Probably not. But for someone out there it certainly is possible to fix that board - even if you have the change the microprocessor. Just hate to let fixable things die.
Was hoping to see the red tool disassembled by the yellow one at the end there. You missed a chance for carnage!
And that's why I refuse to buy brushless tools!❤
Content suggestion: take some circuit boards that work, put a cleaner on them and scrub them with that brush and then see if they still work afterwards.
Man canada is going down the shitter on banning anything that can keep you safe or be usefull.
A new form of planned obsolescence. My 10 year old angle makita grinder still makes me happy and I don't have to worry about batteries.. No need for another
Don’t forget that Apple won’t warranty water ingress to your Milwaukee tool.
That sticker goes off automatically from humidity after a few weeks, it's pretty precise engineering by Apple.
Kind of surprised you didn't use the DeWalt to open up the Milwaukee.
I've used RC ESCs to revive brushless tools, adds variable speed as a bonus.
In my days of consumer electronics someone had a heater core leak into their car stereo, they sprayed WD-40 into it turned something repairable into a mess by liquifying the solder mask. Not for electronics. Can you still by the old formula in gallon cans and old fashioned pump spray bottles?
I’ve had mine for two years and did many things I shouldn’t have with it..
It’s been soaked in oil, water and has cut 1” 4 wire hydraulic hose. That was until I bought a 5 inch grinder
Justice Brothers sells JB-80. It's twice as good! Says so, right on the can.
If they changed the formula, shouldn't it be WD41?
You have to be impressed with yourself that you have enough impact that the WD corp wanna come shout you down.
If they're mad, you're doing it right.
Ok.... so how hard would it be to refurb the thing with a brushed motor of similar stature and gusto that had a far higher life span? Making adapting gears/belts/pulleys might be the sticking points, but correct me if im wrong, the metal spinny bits above the brain box/power system still work they just need a prime mover?
Looks like Millwookie's conformal coating wasn't conforming enough, needed another layer.
This is why I switched to the green brand formerly known as Hitachi . IP56 ratings .
I love my miliwaukee grinder. I’ve had mine for over a year and use it at work all the time
Sometimes an unavoidable sacrifice like when you're cutting a leaking pipe in your pump house
For most people that earn money with their tools it wouldn't be worth it, but I have been curious about retrofitting a hobby ESC to run a brushless tool. Tons of limitations and caveats, but maybe end up with a little more tool life, and a somewhat interesting experience.
I know nothing about electronics but
Could you put a ESC form a drone in and get rid of all the other circuit boards?
Might void the warranty i guess.
That thing has 5 year warranty. Just take it in and get a new one. My local milwaukee shop is awesome. Tools ive beat the absolute crap out of for 3+ years and took it in, they just gave me a new replacement
Here is a request for the King of the North. I have two Milwaukee portabands both of which “no longer chooch”. The trigger switch /triac? Speed control ist kaput. Big Red says the saws are obsolete, no switches available, no conversion kits available. WTF? Are parts available in the Great White North? Can this piddley-ass part be hot wired? Do I stand a prayer of component-level repair?
The irony of changing the formula is the original formula number is the source of the brand name.
I’m wondering if they should have sealed the boards in silicone. Or some other epoxy
i have a non-fuel rotary tool m12 but i got it a bit wet cutting some glass (with a water drip to prevent cracking of the glass). electronicals are fucked. but that dewalt teardown, they covered everything nicely so you could piss in the ventilation slats and it would be fine.
Could you just get an esc used for rc and wire in the trigger switch?
They are cheap like borscht
There are relatively cheap brushless motor controllers available for things like the RC market.
"WD30? I've never heard of WD30 Ricky..."
Ironically hairspray works wonders on PCBs to avoid the green death, I think they call it unconformal coating.
" mins wiotth a swade brush (very soft brass brissels ) ...on the brain box board............ and it will amaze you how well it cleans it up, I've done this on old graphics cards before and it does work. not a 100% thing bu if it's got the solder in tthe right places it will work.
i never buy wd40, i always end up having someone leave a can at my shop. i only use it to help remove exhaust hangers. give it a little spritzin and the rubbers slide right off. i use the good stuff for actual rust penetration and work.
i beat the holy hell out of my m18 stuff, gets used daily at work, covered in grease and hosed off with brake kleen, dropped from hoist arms, ect. one of my battery's shell was falling apart so i bought a new shell for it and when swapping it out i noticed the bms was date stamped 2012, then i remembered it came with my first m18 tool i bought, a 3/8 impact, which also still works. meanwhile i have a pile of maybe 20+ knockoff m18 and m12 batteries that i need to fix.
Have you seen the new "Pro Formula" of CRC brake clean? "Pro Formula" means it doesn't work! It won't even take Dykem off!
I've had some luck fixing corroded circuit boards by using an ultrasonic cleaner and deionized water. Allow the board to completely (like for real) dry out before supplying power or its toast for good. May be worth an experiment.
I saw a diode that was knackered on that Milwackey board
And this has been another episode of getting learnt with Ricky.
I have cleaned my dewalts in varsol parts washers their entire lives
Love me some AvE monday ranting. Keep it coming my man.
There are a few testpoints that could be worth probing for voltage to get some guage of what the problem is. That testpoint marked VCC on the bottom edge is a good place to start
Also, its very likely that the corrosion is worse on the back side of the board, between the heatsink and the board. Worth a shot to clean it up ?
well its cost effective to not water proof the components inside so they die and you have to replace it or send it in to get it referbished and still same shit happens due to the lack of corosion resistance i just love electronics today board too small to diagnose/fix anything but hell if i put a small coating of water resistant coating on it to protect against corosion
Damn don't I love your videos! 🤣 I got you a solid line on some OG-WD with the easy reach straw too... 🤣