I bought the set with case, tool, battery & charger. The charger has a UK plug, and is spec’d at 240 volts only.
Fortuitously, I have a Dremel 8220 that uses the same battery (Bosch bought Dremel a few years ago). The chargers look identical from the outside, but the Dremel is spec’d at 120 volts only.
So of course I took them both apart.
I need to take a closer look, but so far I can’t see any difference between them. The boards have the same part numbers, and the components look the same. I’m wondering if it’s really a a 120/240 VAC charger, and is just labeled differently according to region.
I’ll take a much closer look before I try a smoke test.
But if you happen to have a 12V Li-ion Dremel, you can save money by buying the bare tool.
@Kidsandliz I may have told this tale before, but many years ago a co-worker was cutting branches with a chainsaw. He said to himself: “Maybe I shouldn’t cut that one, if it swings wrong it will hit the ladder”. “Naw, I’m sure it will be ok.”
(First off, he still has all his appendages.)
Of course it swung wrong, and knocked the ladder out from under him. On his way down he whacked the underside of his left arm, between the armpit and elbow, about half a dozen times. Then the blade caught his fingers, and somehow spun them so he had nearly 360 degree cuts around a couple of them. But didn’t cut them off.
With a death grip on the chainsaw, the tip of the bar was the first thing to contact the ground, and he broke his right wrist. He also broke his shoulder blade somehow.
When the paramedics arrive, they look at his chewed up left hand, and say: “Wow, that looks bad, we better get an IV in”, and grab his (broken) right wrist.
On the way to the hospital the ambulance hit a bump or swerved, and one of the paramedics lost his balance. And caught himself with a hand on each of our lumberjack’s shoulders. Remember the broken shoulder blade?
So they make it to the ER, and that crew looks at him, and says: “That hand doesn’t look good, we better get an IV in.”
@blaineg@Kidsandliz Not to make light of your coworker’s accident by any means…glad he is OK. But your description of the ambulance ride reminded me of this scene from Hot Shots
@500vdc@Kidsandliz Don’t worry, we heckled him for years! Someone found this picture with the caption “Just because you’ve got a chainsaw, it don’t mean you’re a lumberjack.”
@blaineg@RiotDemon My sister says a girl can’t have too many flashlights. Her husband says a man can’t have too many screwdrivers. I guess you are saying a person can’t have too many “interesting” and potentially useless - oh wait you can modify it to be a table saw - tools?
I don’t know why it took me so long, but I finally bought a soft face mallet last week.
There’s been many times over the years that one of those would have saved damaging something I was working on. Or saved needing an extra hand to hold a piece of wood.
@carl669@Koolhandjoe@sammydog01 I definitely wouldn’t have guessed that specific application and as a mother of three it’s definitely a little uncomfortable thinking about. 🥺
Clearly you don’t remember this seminal item…
Powered wine openers
More utilitarian as well.
@mike808 Yea, but that’s just your average cheap cordless screwdriver with an absurd attachment.
The Nanoblade is dedicated absurdity.
@mike808 Neato! Now I can open two bottles at the same time!
I know this as the AvE box opener! Thought you couldn’t get them in America. I’ll take links if you have a source.
@djslack Well, you can’t. But there are ways.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B071NW5S5Q/
Currently listed for £114, but it was £80 when I bought it. It took a week to get here, but only 2 days of that was transit time!
You can also get it via eBay.
@djslack Shipping was 30 quid, but that also included a couple of spare “blades”.
@blaineg @djslack
@djslack @earlyre I can confirm that this thing is absolute death on cardboard boxes!
/giphy Tool Time more power
@blaineg @tinamarie1974
More power? You’re doing it wrong.
I bought the set with case, tool, battery & charger. The charger has a UK plug, and is spec’d at 240 volts only.
Fortuitously, I have a Dremel 8220 that uses the same battery (Bosch bought Dremel a few years ago). The chargers look identical from the outside, but the Dremel is spec’d at 120 volts only.
So of course I took them both apart.
I need to take a closer look, but so far I can’t see any difference between them. The boards have the same part numbers, and the components look the same. I’m wondering if it’s really a a 120/240 VAC charger, and is just labeled differently according to region.
I’ll take a much closer look before I try a smoke test.
But if you happen to have a 12V Li-ion Dremel, you can save money by buying the bare tool.
Toys of this sort can be fun. And dangerous. Pls be careful.
: )
@f00l Thanks, I’m a wimp about pain, so I’m careful with power tools.
On the upside, this thing is only going to remove fingers, not arms or legs.
@blaineg Just make sure not to test it or play with it when your “superpower” is making itself evident.
@blaineg @msklzannie
Or, in other words… not for use on morning wood.
Damn you @blaineg!
That right there is a primo “hold my beer” moment in the making.
For your entertainment pleasure on how not to use (primarily) chainsaws to cut down trees.
@Kidsandliz I may have told this tale before, but many years ago a co-worker was cutting branches with a chainsaw. He said to himself: “Maybe I shouldn’t cut that one, if it swings wrong it will hit the ladder”. “Naw, I’m sure it will be ok.”
(First off, he still has all his appendages.)
Of course it swung wrong, and knocked the ladder out from under him. On his way down he whacked the underside of his left arm, between the armpit and elbow, about half a dozen times. Then the blade caught his fingers, and somehow spun them so he had nearly 360 degree cuts around a couple of them. But didn’t cut them off.
With a death grip on the chainsaw, the tip of the bar was the first thing to contact the ground, and he broke his right wrist. He also broke his shoulder blade somehow.
When the paramedics arrive, they look at his chewed up left hand, and say: “Wow, that looks bad, we better get an IV in”, and grab his (broken) right wrist.
On the way to the hospital the ambulance hit a bump or swerved, and one of the paramedics lost his balance. And caught himself with a hand on each of our lumberjack’s shoulders. Remember the broken shoulder blade?
So they make it to the ER, and that crew looks at him, and says: “That hand doesn’t look good, we better get an IV in.”
And they grab the right wrist…
@blaineg @Kidsandliz Not to make light of your coworker’s accident by any means…glad he is OK. But your description of the ambulance ride reminded me of this scene from Hot Shots
@500vdc @Kidsandliz Don’t worry, we heckled him for years! Someone found this picture with the caption “Just because you’ve got a chainsaw, it don’t mean you’re a lumberjack.”
@500vdc @blaineg @Kidsandliz
made me flash to this song of course…
I watched this. All I could think of was that she could of easily used a jigsaw or a circular saw, and then a hand lopper for the branch.
I’m guessing this is why I haven’t seen it in a store? What are you going to use it for?
@RiotDemon handy when you need to clear your
/image miniature forest
for your
/image miniature hotel
@RiotDemon No particular application in mind, it’s just a cool tool / fascinating toy.
It does work very well for making plunge cuts with the tip of the bar, like cutting into a wall, without having to mess with a pilot hole.
@blaineg @RiotDemon My sister says a girl can’t have too many flashlights. Her husband says a man can’t have too many screwdrivers. I guess you are saying a person can’t have too many “interesting” and potentially useless - oh wait you can modify it to be a table saw - tools?
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon Exactly. New tools open up new possibilities.
I don’t know why it took me so long, but I finally bought a soft face mallet last week.
There’s been many times over the years that one of those would have saved damaging something I was working on. Or saved needing an extra hand to hold a piece of wood.
@Kidsandliz @RiotDemon Oh, the Nanoblade table saw is a separate tool, about $500 I think.
When you get bored with it:
@djslack why you gotta leave me hanging like that?
I just wanted to see the end result.
Then he made a Mk2.
Brilliant.
@djslack Hahaha! That’s wonderful.
Even better, the Mk2 performs almost exactly the same as the electric version.
Lame. Make a baseball go supersonic.
@mike808 Smarter Every Day is always worth watching. Have you seen the Arctic base / boarding a submarine series?
LOL it looks photoshopped.
There’s a table saw!
@blaineg lol, noooooo.
On the other hand…
@blaineg needs more power.
@RiotDemon So where’s the one in the picture?
@blaineg ah yeah, that annoyed me.
It’s in British Columbia.
https://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WMEN2_Worlds_Largest_Chainsaw
@blaineg wow. interesting.
@blaineg
that looks vaguely like a REALLY bad-ass guitar!
very cool.
@harwester it’s so interesting isn’t it?
So if anyone wants to learn an interesting fact… google this phrase “why were chainsaws invented?”… it totally blew my mind
@Koolhandjoe i really didn’t need to know that. i blame @silylheathen for making me look that up and the regret i felt afterwards.
@carl669 @Koolhandjoe
/giphy eww
@carl669 @Koolhandjoe Fuck off Carl!
What kind of goat are you?!?! You should’ve put that in the blame thread silly arse!
@carl669 @Koolhandjoe I haven’t looked it up yet but I’m going to go with something along the lines of amputation implement!
@carl669 @Koolhandjoe @sammydog01 I definitely wouldn’t have guessed that specific application and as a mother of three it’s definitely a little uncomfortable thinking about.
🥺
@Koolhandjoe @sillyheathen fucking hell! i can lay blame in any thread i damn well want! that’s the way the goat meeeeehhhhhhs
@carl669 @Koolhandjoe Spoken like a true goat!
Meeeeeeehhhhhh
/giphy goat
@sillyheathen
Oh… yeah… right there… OK. now… a little lower and to the left…
@carl669 @Koolhandjoe @sillyheathen you know that goat is just setting up to jump the fence
I’d like to thank our new potential spammer friend for reviving this thread of chainsaw fun. I’ve enjoyed revisiting it and the new additions!