Comment on DIY Universal Power Tools?
ludrol@szmer.info@szmer.info 3 days ago I’ll just make and harden whole new shells for all the tools.
That’s just asking for it to break at the worst possible moment and for your flesh to meet the spinny bit. The biggest load is when they are working.
You don’t even have two separate battery systems. Most pragmatic thing to do is to leave it as is. Just as we accept proprietary CPU microcode, it’s easier to accept the batteries than to modify them.
Also battery systems come at different voltages (12V 18V 20V) so different connectors enshure that you won’t mix them up.
Postmortal_Pop@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The reasons provided are the thin veneer of validity to excuse modifying it for my own fun and preference. If I needed a reason not to do it, the knowledge that it will take any amount of time out of my day is enough. I can’t choose to use a different cpu microcode, I can’t choose to live in a nation that isn’t a shithole, I can’t choose to not participate in consumerism, but I can choose to cut open shitty Walmart tools and replace the shitty proprietary metal prongs with something I choose to put there. Just because I can’t choose most things doesn’t means I shouldn’t use and enjoy the choices I can have.