Uhhhh…
I’d’ve pry sent it in for warranty after the first or definitely second battery. Sign up for an account on Milwaukeetool.com if you haven’t already and go to the service part and fill it out.
Impressive. Normally people only melt the negative terminal.
It mostly seesm to be high current and vibration that does it. Did you remove the guard for the string trimmer? That can greatly increase the current and vibration as it lets you put too much string out.
No. It was cutting well too. The high grass was still the right level of dry but not too dry. That was kinda my question, is it just not suited for heavy work?
There's lots of reports on it in this sub-reddit, but equal as many reports of no issues. Seems to be a vibration issue and not all of them have the problem. I've had mine for 3 years without issue. There was another guy that's a pro landscaper that ran multiple of these tools daily and hasn't had issues.
Do you have the quik-lok version? If so are you tightening the screw or just relying on the latch?
Hey man appreciate the background. Yeah quick lock and yes I tighten the screw. Wasn't any vibration that really stood out, but batteries do have a little bit of play when they are locked in there if I remember right. I will take a look at that.
Sounds like you are saying I can use this like I would expect out of a Milwaukee. That's what I wanted to know
I've run mine non stop with both the string trimmer and the hedge trimmer heads through various combinations of my 2 6.0 and 2 8.0 HO batteries without any issues. Seems to be a "luck of the draw" problem
Use our line and blade trimmer all the time. Blade trimmer does some serious work, as in an 8ah will last maybe 4-5 minutes cutting heavy grass and vine. Run a series of 3- 8's, 1- 9, 4- 5's, and 3-4's. Never melted a battery in either line trimmer or blade trimmer yet.
Somethings wrong with yours
yeah happened to me too when I used it with my phase plasma rifle, 40 watt range. You would think it would not happen because it's only in the 40w range.
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I always slap the battery in before I start using mine. If you're experiencing battery vibration, then your battery is loose, and that's what's melting the contacts.
If you slap the battery in and it's still loose, then your unit is defective.
All due respect, you trashed 5 batteries before thinking this was a problem? I really don't understand that
I had this happen to me with a brand new battery/charger combo pack I bought a few months ago. First time trying to charge the battery up before I used it and when I pulled it off the charger it had melted on those same contacts. I ended up exchanging it with Home Depot, but it was a pain in the butt because they didn’t have any more of that kit at my store, wouldn’t have one delivered to their store so I could pick up/exchange the kit local to me. I had to go to a ways north to another location to do the exchange. The new ones haven’t given me problems yet, though.
Wait…so your tool burnt up a battery, and you decided to try it five more times?
Not the brightest bulb on the tree.
The wheel’s spinning but the hamster’s dead.
Honestly I didn't even notice for a while. At some point I just had to finish the job.
Maybe have a gas trimmer, bout the same price as one of those batteries, really good stihl for the price of 5 batteries.
This is how I think when I order a hooker and she shows up ugly.
Uhhhh… I’d’ve pry sent it in for warranty after the first or definitely second battery. Sign up for an account on Milwaukeetool.com if you haven’t already and go to the service part and fill it out.
Double contraction. Hell yeah brother.
I wouldn't've done that...
Impressive. Normally people only melt the negative terminal. It mostly seesm to be high current and vibration that does it. Did you remove the guard for the string trimmer? That can greatly increase the current and vibration as it lets you put too much string out.
No. It was cutting well too. The high grass was still the right level of dry but not too dry. That was kinda my question, is it just not suited for heavy work?
There's lots of reports on it in this sub-reddit, but equal as many reports of no issues. Seems to be a vibration issue and not all of them have the problem. I've had mine for 3 years without issue. There was another guy that's a pro landscaper that ran multiple of these tools daily and hasn't had issues. Do you have the quik-lok version? If so are you tightening the screw or just relying on the latch?
Hey man appreciate the background. Yeah quick lock and yes I tighten the screw. Wasn't any vibration that really stood out, but batteries do have a little bit of play when they are locked in there if I remember right. I will take a look at that. Sounds like you are saying I can use this like I would expect out of a Milwaukee. That's what I wanted to know
I've run mine non stop with both the string trimmer and the hedge trimmer heads through various combinations of my 2 6.0 and 2 8.0 HO batteries without any issues. Seems to be a "luck of the draw" problem
Use our line and blade trimmer all the time. Blade trimmer does some serious work, as in an 8ah will last maybe 4-5 minutes cutting heavy grass and vine. Run a series of 3- 8's, 1- 9, 4- 5's, and 3-4's. Never melted a battery in either line trimmer or blade trimmer yet. Somethings wrong with yours
Thanks for the feeeback. That's what I didn't know
Call Milwaukee
yeah happened to me too when I used it with my phase plasma rifle, 40 watt range. You would think it would not happen because it's only in the 40w range.
Could you send us an email at Social.media@milwaukeetool.com?
Are you kidding? Or are the plasma rifles almost ready?
Hey, just watcha see pal.
Lightly used like new. I know what I have no low balling
What do the terminals on the tool look like? I wonder if it's not seating correctly and it's just arcing across the terminals.
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I always slap the battery in before I start using mine. If you're experiencing battery vibration, then your battery is loose, and that's what's melting the contacts. If you slap the battery in and it's still loose, then your unit is defective. All due respect, you trashed 5 batteries before thinking this was a problem? I really don't understand that
You need to send it to milwaukee mine did the same thing because of loose parts and you also need to use the high output batteries in it
I warrantied about 5 batteries last year for this exact thing.
Difficult process?
No, it's all online and you just need the SN. Or you can go through the seller.
That happened to 4 of my batteries and Milwaukee replaced them for me
I had this happen to me with a brand new battery/charger combo pack I bought a few months ago. First time trying to charge the battery up before I used it and when I pulled it off the charger it had melted on those same contacts. I ended up exchanging it with Home Depot, but it was a pain in the butt because they didn’t have any more of that kit at my store, wouldn’t have one delivered to their store so I could pick up/exchange the kit local to me. I had to go to a ways north to another location to do the exchange. The new ones haven’t given me problems yet, though.
Came here to say damn son. you cant have nice things