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85K100 said:
Seems to me that if it doesn't have the bypass button its not worth having.
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My battery totally died after I filled up at a gas station. I have a voltmeter wired directly to the battery and saw with each attempted start the volts go from 10 to 2 then blank.
The little booster fired it up first time like a new battery. I think this came from Amazon and is over 7 years old. Just in case this helps. There is no button.
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The battery failed on the bike
(sorry about the slippers)
 
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Sunday Rider said:
My battery totally died after I filled up at a gas station. I have a voltmeter wired directly to the battery and saw with each attempted start the volts go from 10 to 2 then blank.
The little booster fired it up first time like a new battery. I think this came from Amazon and is over 7 years old. Just in case this helps. There is no button.
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I have the same brand from Costco. No button required, just plug and play.
 
Vevor top handle saw passed round one. Started in a few pulls and didn't do anything concerning. You can't lean on it as expected but it cut full bar without bogging down. Vibration is worse than good saws. Much faster and easier to prune trees than the previous solution of pruning blade in a recip saw.
 
GreyGhost said:
Vevor top handle saw passed round one. Started in a few pulls and didn't do anything concerning. You can't lean on it as expected but it cut full bar without bogging down. Vibration is worse than good saws. Much faster and easier to prune trees than the previous solution of pruning blade in a recip saw.
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I've given a Vevor ultrasonic cleaner a good workout.
Had it over a year.
it works as expected.
 
Relax said:
Noco battery chargers on sale at Amazon (lead/AGM/lithium):
1A - $42
2A - $52
5A - $73
10A - $113

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NOCO: Genius Battery Chargers

UltraSafe smart battery chargers designed to fully charge and maintain cars, boats, motorcycles, trucks and more.
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I have the Genius5 one and it's great that the $75 charger can take care of regular LA, AGM, and Lithium batts, all of which we have on site. It wouldn't repair the LA that suddenly went flat in my lawn tractor but neither would my Ctek.
 
Never overlook Facebook Marketplace. I’m getting into a little welding and fabricating as a hobby and decided I needed a bigger bandsaw. Found this today on Facebook Marketplace in Oshawa a block away from where I was working at The Canadian Automotive Museum, I was a little hesitant, it’s a real bad part of The Shwa. She was asking $300 and it came with 6 blades( a $100 value).
All easily worth over $600 new. I asked if she would accept $200, she said come get it. I got there shortly after and felt kind of bad, turns out she was an older woman who had lost her leg and I think her husband in a motorcycle accident. The bandsaw was her husband’s and when she opened the case it had that brand new smell and looked like it may have been used for ten minutes with the original blade, the chord was stiff and still had curls in it like it had just been unwound for the first time. Great deal.
 

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I have the Genius5 one and it's great that the $75 charger can take care of regular LA, AGM, and Lithium batts, all of which we have on site. It wouldn't repair the LA that suddenly went flat in my lawn tractor but neither would my Ctek.
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I had a chance to test the Noco 5 and found similar issue, but the Noco looked like it was charging and eventually lit up the green LED solid. But as soon as you tried to draw any power from it, it was dead. At least the CTEK complained about not being able to charge it.

It also wasn't able to reset the BMS of a Noco NLP5 I once had fully charged and left in the box as a spare. Apparently this is a known issue with the batteries, but I still blame the charger because it specifically states that it can do the BMS reset on their own batteries, which is obviously can't.

So for $75 do I keep this thing that doesn't seem to be able to do any more than any other trickle charger, or do I return it and wait for a CTEK or Optimate to go on sale...
 
GreyGhost said:
Vevor top handle saw passed round one. Started in a few pulls and didn't do anything concerning. You can't lean on it as expected but it cut full bar without bogging down. Vibration is worse than good saws. Much faster and easier to prune trees than the previous solution of pruning blade in a recip saw.
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Round two passed. Needed to deal with trees in the lake. Much nicer to use the small saw in the water up to my neck. Fuel tank is pretty small. After a couple tanks, it wanted throttle to start but would work fine once started. I havent checked once it cooled down to see if that was heat related or if the carb is annoyed. Overall, it's more than paid for itself already and if I dropped it in the lake, I'd order another one.
 
ReSTored said:
I ordered the electric chipper in my post. Hopefully it will work as described. I'll give it a try within the return window and it will be returned if it doesn't work as expected.

I'm not looking for and don't need a marathon event, just a chipper to use a few times a season for general cleanup of small brush. There's a finite need for firepit kindling and things have been are piling up.

We have an arborist come by every 3 - 4 years or so for tree trimming / removal and he has a huge Vermeer chipper. Anything that doesn't fit in the electric chipper I can just set aside until the monster unit shows up.
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Well, took a closer look at the pile of stuff I had to deal with and concluded a small electric chipper would not be suitable. Cancelled Amazon order and purchased a 3" Champion chipper CT had on sale for $780.

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So far it's doing a great job and I'm very happy I purchased this unit vs. the small capacity one.

The 3" chute is simple to use. Hold tight and feed things in. The hopper feed you have to be careful to hold things at the very end as the chipper can grab a small branch, rip it out of your hand and whip it sideways. After a few bruises I got the hang of it. The hopper is deadly serious. Once it catches a branch it disappears into the chipper in a fraction of a second. You wouldn't want to get your hand, watch or sleeve caught up in something the chipper is pulling down at lightning speed.
 
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not something I use often, but for $125 I couldn’t resist.
 
JC99 said:
Ok that’s neat but I’m trying to think where I’d realistically prefer to use that over my cheap wired one. In situ vehicle repairs maybe?

I mean I still want it.
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It's great for projects where you have no power near by.

I also like to stand it up on the counter and solder "in the air".

Holding the 2 pieces of masteries with both hands and the iron standing up on the counter.
 
Mad Mike said:
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not something I use often, but for $125 I couldn’t resist.
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Hey, that’s what I use for my bathtime.
 
JC99 said:
Hey, that’s what I use for my bathtime.
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I was thinking of a use like that too. Hauling drunks out of my pool.
 
Mad Mike said:
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not something I use often, but for $125 I couldn’t resist.
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Princess Auto sells that exact same setup for $350 every few months made by “Big Red”. It’s going on sale in a week or two. Probably made in the same factory in China just painted a different colour. Have you ever actually tried lifting an engine with it? What were the shipping costs? I’m thinking of picking one up at Princess Auto, I’m sure they use a higher grade of Chinesium in theirs.
 
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Mad Mike said:
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Trent Austin Design 2-Tonne Folding Engine Hoist, Hydraulic Shop Crane Lift with 6 Casters & Telescopic Boom, 4400 LB Foldable Mobile Cherry Picker for Garage, Workshop, Factory, Heavy-Duty - Wayfair Canada

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not something I use often, but for $125 I couldn’t resist.
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That's a deal I grabbed one probably better than using my forklift or tractor for these jobs and 125 free shipping is a deal.

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