Harbor Freight drill recall

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Originally Posted By: JHZR2

The problem is that weve lost the capability to mass produce many of the basic components...


Yeah, like the ability to make bridges apparently
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I still find that incredible.....
 
Originally Posted By: Jimmy9190
This thread is beginning to go exactly in the direction I had hoped we could avoid. Maybe none of us here use that HF drill but I only wanted to give a heads-up in case any of us did own the defective drills.


It's a discussion forum, which by it's very nature elicits discussion of the original topic. Posts are going to be discussed, and opinions rendered even though they may differ from your own.
 
Thank you Jimmy9190 for posting your findings.

Unfortunately, the friendly banter in this thread has brought out the fact that even if we buy so called better products, they can have the same problems as the Harbor Freight stuff.

Here's just an inkling of industrial tool manufacturer recalls:

Milwaukee: Recall of 1 million batteries susceptible to exploding http://www.milwaukeetool.com/CMS/ServiceAlerts/Recall.pdf

Bosch: Defective drill switch http://www.boschtools.com/recalls/Docume...ll_bodyTextLink

Makita: Exploding sander mounts: http://www.makitausa.com/en-us/Modules/Company/InTheNews.aspx?ID=3

Fein Multimaster: defective switches http://www.epinions.com/review/Fein_Multimaster_Select/content_410559549060?sb=1
 
Originally Posted By: johnachak
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Harbor Freight adds a whole new dimension to the words "fire drill". [/quote]

NICE!
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Yup! Real cute!
 
Originally Posted By: doitmyself
Thank you Jimmy9190 for posting your findings.

Unfortunately, the friendly banter in this thread has brought out the fact that even if we buy so called better products, they can have the same problems as the Harbor Freight stuff.

Here's just an inkling of industrial tool manufacturer recalls:

Milwaukee: Recall of 1 million batteries susceptible to exploding http://www.milwaukeetool.com/CMS/ServiceAlerts/Recall.pdf

Bosch: Defective drill switch http://www.boschtools.com/recalls/Docume...ll_bodyTextLink

Makita: Exploding sander mounts: http://www.makitausa.com/en-us/Modules/Company/InTheNews.aspx?ID=3

Fein Multimaster: defective switches http://www.epinions.com/review/Fein_Multimaster_Select/content_410559549060?sb=1

Noooo, surely you jest! +1 Jimmy on your posting.

Heard this morning that even US based Boeing may be having Li-ion battery issues on it's Dreamliner aircraft. Oh wait, this is only an HF drill battery issue, got it.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/10/uk-boeing-787-batteries-idUSLNE90900N20130110
 
I dont think anyone, including myself said that it was isolated to HF.

High energy density batteries are a challenge for all implementations, and across all Li-ion chemistry variants.

From earlier:

One-off cells may not be so lucky. - Unfortunately I stated this with the Yuasa 787 cells in mind, amongst others (Navy ASDS for example).

Ditto for Chinese cells. Foreign objects and deviations from the cleanest, dryest manufacturing (a tiny sliver of copper foil can be catastrophic) can cause massive energetic events. We have seen this as root cause on cells from many manufacturers. Using X-ray and other techniques, we can study the jelly rolls and see this stuff. Cu dissolves into the electrolyte and then replates to form internal shorts, amongst other things...

We are going to see the importance of reliable electric circuits like never before, as there is only a narrow window for Li-ion. Cheap out and do the lowest bidder bit on important safety circuit comoponents, and failures WILL occur.
 
While no one may have come out and directly said it was an HF issue alone, very clearly there are a couple replies that at the 'very least' imply it to be an HF quality issue, to the point of it being also typical of such. And also very clearly in this thread, I'm not the only one with that observation.

Of course, after a multiple follow up listings/links by several knowledgable members with no anti-HF agenda, of other such recalls by many other companies, some US based, with the same/similar specific issue, some crow had to be eaten and at least one attempt to redirect specifically from HF to it's manufacture point. The same poster also very recently continued similar HF drill commentary over into the recent HF float charger thread on this board lamely attempting to take the thread off topic.

To the topic, clearly now thanks to the OP and other knowledgeable members here, the posting of the recall with the intent to inform Bitog members, has been put in proper perspective despite some attempts to make it appear to be strictly a HF/HF drill issue.
 
I appreciate the thanks, I was only trying to give us all a heads-up warning in case any of us might own one of the bad drills. I also appreciate the info on batteries, but the recall on this drill has nothing to do with the battery. The recall was issued because of a problem with the trigger on the drill, not the battery.
 
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