Useful tools coming to Aldi this Sunday

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Includes a Li-Ion cordless drill and a wrenches and socket set

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https://www.aldi.co.uk/specialbuys/dates/sunday-30th-october/c/2016-10-30/?q=:popular&page=0
 
Chap on youtube who cruises the norfolk broads bought that same cordless drill and it started to set on fire while sitting idle!!

 
Their seems to be quite a lot of domestic items that are going up in smoke at the moment! Cheap chinese manufacturing I assume
 
Tammany said:
Chap on youtube who cruises the norfolk broads bought that same cordless drill and it started to set on fire while sitting idle!!

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Looking at the general environment in the video and the state of the connections of the battery I'm not convinced that it wasn't self inflicted.
 
in this case, reducing the temperature of a small Li-ion battery, and preventing any plastic burning, by dunking it is a satisfactory solution. Metallic lithium is the nasty stuff, and that is used mainly in non-rechargeable batteries.
 
The one in the video is different - it's 14V not 18 and the motor casing and battery attachment look different. It may be equally crap of course. But then so might a Makita or Bosch or virtually any other make that might have come from the same factory or used the same batteries.
If Samsung can get it wrong on a phone......
 
Plevier said:
The one in the video is different - it's 14V not 18 and the motor casing and battery attachment look different. It may be equally crap of course. But then so might a Makita or Bosch or virtually any other make that might have come from the same factory or used the same batteries.
If Samsung can get it wrong on a phone......
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Fair comment.
Sony got it wrong too, back when LiIon was new tech....
 
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