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Daily Discussion Thread: 🎨🖼️ Thursday, 19 December, 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

today's randomness:

Tool battery powerpacks are usually just literal 18650's chained together. I have a chainsaw one that's actually just a buncha nicads. They don't do replacements. I am not paying another couple hundred for a useful tool that I use once in a blue moon. I know you can get replacement battery packs, but are there small, dodgy shops where they will perform the swap for you?

(I want a battery upgrade which will also need new charger but I am not fuckin' soldering lithiums)

[–] Bottom_racer@aussie.zone 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I am not fuckin’ soldering lithiums

I'll do it for you. All I ask as payment is a will kit, a fire extinguisher and a prosthetic hand.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 5 points 7 months ago

no eyebrows? Great deal!

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Fuckin eh! I'm not keen on doing surgery on the cats' twitty bird because I expect it to be a soldered coin battery. Fuck anything bigger.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

coin batteries are easy, and even easier to convert to a standard removable cell. But lithiums....n o p e

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Really? It's stopped tweeting but I'm hesitant to pull the gut line cat toy @SpudStudChud@aussie.zone

[–] StudChud@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

lol

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

yup, just carefully pull off the wires if they're soldered directly and slap one of these in: https://core-electronics.com.au/power-batteries/liion-lipoly/coin-cell.html

[–] Catfish@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

Awesome! Will be fiddly to gut the little fucker, but they love him, so I shall attempt it

[–] Thornburywitch@aussie.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Battery world in Greensborough prides itself on having every possible battery in stock. And they do same day delivery. www.batteryworld.com.au/stores/battery-world-greensborough

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 7 months ago

nah, they don't tend to do tool batteries. There's one not far from me in mentone - I've recycled a UPS there, gotten a new battery for my 2009 ebook...not so much on the tool front.