Cheap and good except for one dumb deal-breaker.

Gentlemen's welcome back to the shop today. a treat! Especial Yes, they cannot all be treated as specials, but this one is on account. Uh, letting me through the Border hole us filthy frostbacks coming in and stealing your sweet sweet chinesium. And by stealing I mean throwing down proper legal tender.

Look at this She's a Beauty a ZT with the proper flicker and yes I forgot to press record a smiling like I kid never been to Town The Glitz: The Glam the homeless dude defecating on the street. We have an abrasive cut off saw tool only and that as they say is time surmounted in a petrochemical plastic we refer to the back of the box for the known by the state of cancer to cause. California New Warning: This product if you'd Focus you there we go. This product can expose you to chemicals including Bud Light Speaking of homeless dudes, I'm starting to get offended at that term thrown around.

I'll find it's dehumanizing I'm taking back the moniker of bum God Bless them crazy bums which you see driving to work kind of keeps you on the straight and narrow. Us happy taxpayers salute you. That's a perfect illustration of what happens when a problem gets politicized. It grows and grows and grows under a thin veneer of bleeding heartism.

At least it's laid bare for all to see. There's no hiding the fact that as soon as you get a politician sniffing blood in the water, it just gets worse. Cute little hobby motor in there. or tool brushed tool motor.

essentially the same thing with a flux ring and a little screen on the front. Never fit to prevent the bits and Bobs from going and getting sucked in through the fan. As an aside, and if you'll allow me a brief digression, well in additional digression: I've had this Mill foggy Nyon a year. Just leave her on the bench and she comes in mighty handy.

You can see I've Factory deleted all the safety accoutrements as well as the reverse. no longer chooches. super youthful. It's got the 12 volt battery.

in this case. it's got the 20 volt battery quite a bit bigger on the gland end and not brushless. We see the shaft just runs through and there's a little Cog wheel here just to lock it in place that hits these dogs. hit on that pin in order to lock it in place so you can change the abrasive wheel.

Now the abrasive Wheels are sold separately. You don't even get one, so you've got to buy a pack of these now. The top head is affixed with a proper Fastener and an L bracket and pressed and punched seal. Forgive my tongue tangulation.

Maybe not quite straightforward. from the battery terminals. onward, Exactly as you'd expect. Now you would think that you could just have a micro switch or a switch in there and you wouldn't need a confuser.

Unfortunately, the Lithium battery technology is quite apt to explode, so it needs some sort of brain box in order to not over discharge and not blow up. Pop that out! The switch itself is on a linkage. We see a Pom marking here that's acetyl and that is very dimensionally stable. and you can see there's a nice snap action.
and by C I mean here it's a nice snap action. Four contacts, only two of which are being used. Oh, we got the motor controller. a bunch of passive components, lots of Silastic that's a conformal coating.

It's interesting. It's quite a small board and rather than having heat sinking through Vayas like So I've gone and put it standoffs and a heatsink on the back of these half. Bridge mosfets. just orn ORF No reverse, got her back together.

We're gonna give her the whole half a turn fart. Let the Smoke Out test I am a big fan of these slide latch switches or alternatively I hate the Gslist things because invariably they stop working. Oh, this is the opposite of a Deadman switch where if you let go of it, it stops turn it. So this might not be legal in some jurisdictions because this is a Widowmaker switch.

you can click it on and it clicks on. You can put it, it keeps running. These are fantastic because for operator fatigue, you don't got to keep the actuator depressed in order to get the thing spin in the thing. You understand what I'm saying on.

the converse of that is that when it stops latching on its owner, it vibrates loose and you're working away. You're working away and it keeps dying on you. That's a pain right in the Cunning Lingles I both hate this kind of switch and love it, but is yet another example of the ambivalence of human consciousness. I Want to get up off the couch and get some exercise but I also would prefer to sit on the couch and eat some.

Doritos I like the switch and I also hate it. foreign. So when you buy the Milwaukee you get the reverse action so you can shoot the sparks in a different direction. Kind of nice.

You got to decide for yourself if that feature is worse. The worst. The extra dollar hairs. All right piece of junk.

no carbide. for let's put something more amenable to abrasion. Not to worry, they make those in factories Air day. oh that's no, no bueno.

Well, the proof in the puddings, in the eating of the currents that Bauer ain't no good at all. The control system shuts you down. you just. you just get warmed up.

Pretty rare. Some engineered puts in a feature and a tool makes it wholly unusable. This thing well, compared to a Dremel I guess it'd be and fire and farting matchsticks. but compared to the Milwaukee what a pain right in the Cunning Linguals? you just get her heated up and shuts down on you.

I Prefer to be able to smell the fancy blue smoke coming out of her before I Throttle back. This to me makes it unusable on account of it continually torquing out that'll drive you right round the bend. You end up throwing this through somebody's head. The OSHA claim in there somewhere spanks for watching.

It's really too bad. they are cheap. keep your neck in a vice.

By AvvE

12 thoughts on “Boltr: harbor freight cutoff”
  1. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Kart! says:

    Got a lotta respect for ya AVE, so I donโ€™t wanna nag, but i feel the abrasive wheels werenโ€™t well matched. Quality aside, the Milwaukee wheel is close to half the width (kerf?). I still value your analysis and in hand if you thought a different wheel wouldโ€™ve made it a different tool, youโ€™d have likely addressed it, so I probably got the info I needed. Iโ€™d be interested in a quick redemption short. Just swap wheels from one to the other? I watched the dewalt video first though, so we know who the real champ is at the moment.

  2. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Brian Gochnauer says:

    My Bauer disk grinder cuts out on battery voltage; not torque. I think this cutoff is doing the same; use a bigger battery or charge the battery to a full charge.

  3. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Sonny Hernandez says:

    They are reducing our expectations of quality of life by making everything to expensive, collapsing industries and making modern amenities like cars and AC only available to the rich. Despite all its planning and good intentions this was exactly where the Soviet Union ended up. I guess the collectivists have realized that is the only outcome of socialism so now they just plan it. Brave new world gentlemen

  4. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars stranger maniacos says:

    Here I am , in my hacienda putting la bateria seรฑor Ave, come with me a beber tequila !

  5. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Toby Dyes says:

    buy cheap by twice

  6. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Toby Dyes says:

    I'll stick with my grinder with a cut off wheel

  7. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars McFly0097 says:

    i'm an HVAC tech and still a bum, ya know inflation and all, gotta make the rich richer

  8. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars blackhawks81H says:

    Bums are alright. But being a train hobo is where it's really at.

  9. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars RED says:

    My milfucky grinder has the widow maker switch. That paddle system is a pain in the ass to flip the safety then push the paddle every fn time ๐Ÿ˜‚

  10. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Gary Whittingham says:

    Another anti-southpaw device!

  11. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars TwistedMetals OfTexas says:

    Like I said … no… balls

  12. Avataaar/Circle Created with python_avatars Robert Gemski says:

    Ooooof i had a grinder with the good ol widow maker switch with a wire wheel on jump out of my hands and run up bare skin on my forearm and get caught in my shirt against my shoulder and neck could not get to the switch so i tried to unplug with my foot BUT another no no i had the cord ends tied together so i had to yoink my shirt off my ass puckered up so fast it did the opposite of a fart !!

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