My new Milwaukee M12 massager

[PWC Repair]

......or at least it COULD be if they offered it!! So I had this thing down in the shop and it quit. I get real tight in my lower back and hamstrings and it's nice sometimes to just hammer the stiffness out and keep working. I took it apart and found one dead battery and a bad battery charge/safety board. It sat there on the bench for while and one of my M12 batteries got a bit close yesterday...........hhmmmmm........that looks like it would fit in there........So today, I did some slight rewiring and relocated the switch and VIOLA!!!! The M12 'Muscle Relaxer' LOL!!

 

[tjansson]

I really wish this sorta stuff was available for M12. I don't like buying no name cordless stuff with proprietary batteries! Make me Milwaukee hair clippers and Thera Gun!

 

[GeoBruin]

I really wish this sorta stuff was available for M12. I don't like buying no name cordless stuff with proprietary batteries! Make me Milwaukee hair clippers and Thera Gun!

The little barrel plug charging port on my son's "power wheel" style electric motorcycle went bad recently. I was having to trickle charge the battery with alligator clips and it was annoying so I swapped in a 6.0 m12 battery with spade connectors so it was easy to remove and charge.

Works great, but the stock battery was 6 volts, so it's got quite a bit more pep now. To the point where I require him to use a helmet.

 

[Sweetcorn]

The little barrel plug charging port on my son's "power wheel" style electric motorcycle went bad recently. I was having to trickle charge the battery with alligator clips and it was annoying so I swapped in a 6.0 m12 battery with spade connectors so it was easy to remove and charge.

Works great, but the stock battery was 6 volts, so it's got quite a bit more pep now. To the point where I require him to use a helmet.

That's awesome. I'd be on the look out for any of his other battery powered toys "accidentally" breaking in a similar fashion.

The need for power and speed can kick in early for a kid.

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

That's awesome. I'd be on the look out for any of his other battery powered toys "accidentally" breaking in a similar fashion.

The need for power and speed can kick in early for a kid.

Gearheads are grabbing up Power Wheels at the curb all the time. I was talking to a guy on this subject as his grandson was zooming around the yard in a Green Tractor running off an M12 battery. He even had the kid do a wheelie to show us how it launched.

Back in the dark ages we ran my son's PW on a 12V tractor battery. He could do donuts on the driveway with a hot battery.

Jim

 

[mike93lx]

The little barrel plug charging port on my son's "power wheel" style electric motorcycle went bad recently. I was having to trickle charge the battery with alligator clips and it was annoying so I swapped in a 6.0 m12 battery with spade connectors so it was easy to remove and charge.

Works great, but the stock battery was 6 volts, so it's got quite a bit more pep now. To the point where I require him to use a helmet.

Be careful, there isn't logic in the battery to prevent over discharge... It's in the tools. So if its run too low, you can kill it

 

[username2]

I really wish this sorta stuff was available for M12. I don't like buying no name cordless stuff with proprietary batteries! Make me Milwaukee hair clippers and Thera Gun!

I suppose one way to pull it off is to find USB-C powered gizmos and then use a power tool battery -> USB converter.

I completely agree though, I not only dislike dealing with oddball charging concepts but assume that they'll burn the house down.

Maybe a Milwaukee (or Makita or ...) stadium blanket would be nice. Decent portable radio that's not some silly overpriced 'worksite' box.

A thing I haven't seen but would like to is a power-tool battery powered electric bicycle. I simply wouldn't trust the unknown Chinesium that's in a lot of them.

 

[PWC Repair]

After being in retail sales for 7 years, then wholesale for 18 years,........it JUST AMAZES me at the stupidity of these big manufacturers. It seems easy to me,......post poles on a few HUGE websites with THOUSANDS of diy'ers (like GJ), and maybe actually give a listen to the people that ACTUALLY BUY your products to find out what THEY want!
Take the M12 "Worklight" for instance. Was it THAT much trouble to make the lens move for spot or flood. And NO magnet OR even a spring clamp !?? I mean, DAMN, did they even ask ANYBODY that works on ANYTHING before making that thing??

@username2, I agree on a radio that's not a grossly overpriced 'worksite' box. I'm sure a lot of us like to listen to music while we work. But maybe I'm out in a buddies back field pulling a rear axle from an old C10.......or maybe at the junkyard wrestling with the rusty bolts holding those nice bucket seats in. I'm carrying enough **** already! Just a small, fist sized, radio with FM and an SD slot..........Heck, I can buy one off Amazon for less than $20 that's waterproof! Surely the big boys at Milwaukee could figure out how to take that state of the art (insert sarcasm here) and duplicate it to pop my M12 battery in !?!?

 

[username2]

@username2, I agree on a radio that's not a grossly overpriced 'worksite' box. I'm sure a lot of us like to listen to music while we work. But maybe I'm out in a buddies back field pulling a rear axle from an old C10.......or maybe at the junkyard wrestling with the rusty bolts holding those nice bucket seats in. I'm carrying enough **** already! Just a small, fist sized, radio with FM and an SD slot..........Heck, I can buy one off Amazon for less than $20 that's waterproof! Surely the big boys at Milwaukee could figure out how to take that state of the art (insert sarcasm here) and duplicate it to pop my M12 battery in !?!?

An alternative that I'd like to see, but won't, is a highly power-efficient AM/FM radio with large speakers. Basically a new GE Super Radio.

My assumption is that it's cheaper to do radio-on-a-chip, but they never seem to last nearly as long as old-school tabletops. Having said that, I do like the ability to play MP3 (and other digital audio) files, and I think the battery size would have to go up just for that.

For price/performance, it's hard to beat the Retekess v115, but you end up recharging the thing as often as a phone. My kitchen radio (an old great big Panasonic) will go weeks on a set of batteries.

Just to throw in my M12 wish. I'd like an M12 butterfly impact wrench. It wouldn't have to be super powerful and 1/4" is fine.

 

[Sumboodie]

I really wish this sorta stuff was available for M12. I don't like buying no name cordless stuff with proprietary batteries! Make me Milwaukee hair clippers and Thera Gun!

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