Weekend leftovers: Paslode battery project and fence repairing
Posted By RichC on July 18, 2023
Nothing earth shattering from the working around the house projects, but archiving a couple photos from staining a section of last years repaired fence … to more repairing of fences as well as using TiteBond 3 glue as before (this could be a forever project — our fences are deteriorating A LOT).
I was going to use my old Paslode nail gun that I usually use to work on the fence, but of course my batteries are from 1996 and are NiCad 6 volt packs. They do little more than power the fan and ignition … since the tool is powered by ignitable gas. The ignition fire a cylinder drives the nail with a bang, similar to the Powder-actuated tools (have a strike-on with a hammer one for concrete nails and it works great).
That leads me to my weekend distraction project. I cut apart one of the batteries to see if there was a way to replace the cells … or better yet, replace them with a lithium-ion rechargeable battery (it will require a different charging set-up). So I started the quest and decided to order a 2A USB 18650 Lithium Li-ion Battery Charger Module to boost a 3.7VDC cell (or two?) to a selectable 6+VDC. Stay tuned.
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