Frankenstein M12/bubba blade fillet knife
Posted Aug 17, 2020, 9:51 PM UTC
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I clean fish as a side job. Always wanted a cordless electric knife. The bubba is alright but the batteries are a bit limited on power due to be 7.4v(2 cell lithium packs)
They’re becoming harder to charge from the salty environment so I adapted my m12 batteries to work. Yes I know there no protection circuitry. But if I could get 80 trout out of one bubba battery I should be able to get about the same or more. I rarely clean more than 80 trout in a day so no problem with over discharge.
Being 30% more voltage it seems to have a boatload more power. We’ll see how the motor does being overvolted. I’ve got a year out of it already the warranty is out so time to see what it’ll take.
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You can get a 7.2v high amps pack from a place like hobbyking.com maybe adapt a camcorder pack (Sony NP-F970 or a clone of it, basically a 6 cell 7.2v pack). Use thermoplastic to seal it all up maybe. This stuff is great, it melts at boiling water temperature, you can shape it like soft candle wax with your fingers while, and it's hard springy plastic after it's cooled down. Added: hmm, out of stock there, but also available here in bigger package.
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Thanks for that. I was looking for something moldable by hand.
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Just get an m12 hackzall and a pack of diablo fish blades man.
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Far too cumbersome for what I use an electric knife for. I have one of the filletzall blades. Great tool for certain tasks. Trout is not one of them. Red snapper? Hell yes filletzall works wonders.
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Holy shit I was just kidding, had no idea the filletzall blade was a real thing! Thanks man, learned something new today!
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Oh it’s ridiculously aggressive. Bones are like butter to that combo.
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Milwaukee has a inline hackzall in patents with a body like their rotary tool. Might work well for you. https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/a8/96/80/51a28eaac1516e/WO2019152367A1.pdf
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Now that would be good to have.
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Damn it make it cut like a light saber after that?
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Sure hope so. Will be testing it out tomorrow
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I like it. Unfortunately you probably won't ever see Milwaukee related tools for this stuff lol. But I'm sure their innovations and their competitors will help push to create better tools for you with this. Batteries and power will keep getting better. Like the idea though. Let us know how long it lasts. Push it to the limit.
Not enough interest to justify designing a new tool. I understand.
It’s much faster than before if it does die I know the limit. I’ve gotten well over 4,000 fish cleaned with this one knife so it doesn’t owe me a dime.