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That's great! Thank you for taking the time to leave me a note. Take care!

I'm sorry to hear that. It's really annoying to spend your money on something that turns out to be fake. I think Ebay actually deserves a lot of the blame. I did reach out to ebay and spoke with someone on their team and there were unwilling to do anything about flagging and removing the seller from their platform (they had hundreds of sold batteries). Amazon is a bit better in this regard.

I wonder why Milwaukee decided to disable this feature in certain years. It looks like a handy thing to have.

Wow - good score on those M18s! I hope they serve you well!

Glad it helped!

Sweeeet! I'm glad everything worked out! Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment and let me know. Made my day. Have a good one!

@@darosa5741 thank you for the tip! I assumed that having the dope by itself is enough and didn't want to deal with the extra hassle.

@bernhard8540 - thank you for pointing this out! I was excited to find an *easy* way to check for authenticity -- it sucks that it doesn't work 100% of the time. For now at least, the fraudsters haven't caught up with this feature.

@aleksandarl6975 - wow. This actually is starting to sound scary. Lithium cells are more prone to starting a fire, so we gotta tread lightly.

@@EagleNestFarm I ran across strangely lightweight Makita 12v Li-ion, it looked fake right away, very lightweight, collor a bit off, and the letering not quite right. It was very cheap so i bought it to check. When i took it apart it only had 1 pouch li-po cell inside, i guess high discharge current one, like used in chinese drones, and a circuit board that was both the BMS and raised output to 12v. The drill ran fine, but the battery was not even close to advertised capacity and got empty way faster then the 1yr old original one i had, wich was marked at about half of capacity of the fake one. Electronics inside was poorly made, flux residue everywhere, wires soldered like someone who had seen soldering iron for the 1st time in their life did it. Very unsafe, and was heating up quite a bit when charging.

@aleksandarl6975 - my goodness... It's good that you got some entertainment value out of that piece of junk, at least. And you knew exactly what you were looking at and how to handle it. But I feel bad for all the folks who are clueless to this and take things at face value.

​​@@EagleNestFarmFor only about 15$ It was a nice weekend fun to check out and mesure what it realy was that fraudsters came uo with, and i spent 2 days wondering how on earth is it worth to anyone to design and produce bunch of electronics just so that they can put 1 instead of 3 cells inside. They went trough all the trouble of making a case and everything, why not put normal batteries inside and sell it under their own brand as a cheaper replacement is beyod me. I can only hope that someone taking it at face value doesn't cause harm or damage by one of those clearly fraudelent batteries, and that only money lost for buying that junk accounts for all the damage.

@aleksandarl6975 - Yeep. 100% agree with you!

@bernhard8540 - yep, you're right about this one!

@SnailHatan - naaah man, the fakers have gotten pretty good at printing by now 😕 ... You might get some visual cues if you have a fake side-by-side with a genuine, but if you only have a fake battery nothing stands out as obviously wrong.

I was wondering cause you can not preform this test until after you have purchased it ...... Thank you

Ha. Seriously.

Thank you so much for this note! You're 100% correct! I geeked out a bit more on this and found a more detailed video and pinned it above. It's weird that they didn't keep this diagnostic mode across all generations.

@@EagleNestFarm ya, i wish they did

Came here to say this. I wonder if country matters as well

@@MechanicalMercenary not sure, i don't think so though, just generation

That's funny :) They will eventually stop blinking, but it may seem a bit disconcerting how long it goes on...

​@EagleNestFarm imagine if it blinks so long that the battery needs to be recharged.

@@glen3925 lol

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Yep! Good observation. I notice that too, but only when side by side with a genuine battery.

Yeahhh, low quality parts in general. It's really frustrating when the brand new part you're installing ends up with a shorter lifespan than the worn out one you're taking out... 😖

Does nobody know what a deadblow hammer is? A deadblow and a socket is the perfect combination if you don't have a press of some kind.

@@Metal-Possum yeap thats an option if the bearing is small if u go a bearing the size of your head i dont think that will work brother me and my father own an olive oil factory we change all the bearings each season and trust this one on the video is small af

@Metal-Possum - I agree with you! A dead blow hammer and a socket work great. I don't have one in my workshop though, and I also don't have a 3 inch socket. This setup is what I use to get around that. Works well enough for me. Thanks for the note and take care!

@skidbot - wow - sounds like you're working with some big machines! That's really cool. It's interesting to learn about the people who end up watching my videos. Thank you for leaving a comment and take care!

@BorisBirkenbaum - yes, this is an expensive cut of meat... One package is enough to make ~8 trays of jerky though. So it does last a while.

@knicks252525 - I'm based in northern California. We're getting around 600 chill hours out here.

I'm glad it was helpful to you. And thank you so much for the feedback -- now I know!

You are probably grammatically correct, however many people say it either way. Same thing as po-tate-o and po-tot-o, or to-may-to and to-ma-to. One is correct and one is not, but people with different dialects pronounce it differently so it's right to them and that's ok

⁠@@nategrossman3006true true, I just wanted to point it out just to be helpful. I’ve just never heard anyone pronounce that word the way he did because.. The way how he pronounced it is actually how you would call the singer and artist Ginuwine, an American singer popular back in the 2000’s. 😊

It turns out that this particular fake had all torx. Really, really hard to distinguish visually.

@EagleNestFarm security ones with the pin in the middle though? I've seen fakes ones with normal torx but not security ones

Thanks so much for saying this! Take care and enjoy your day!

I use this locking mailbox for my USPS letters and a separate 2'x2'x'3' tote for packages. It has been working great so far!

I'm glad this was useful! Good luck with your sprinkler setup!

I'm glad it helped you out! Take care!

@seangordon88 - It took me *a long time* to get to, but this will be my next project :)

@@EagleNestFarm good stuff. I obtained the same mill in January. Fully electric 1994. I look forward to your videos.