{"id":5768,"date":"2023-01-07T11:45:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-07T10:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/?p=5768"},"modified":"2023-01-07T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T10:46:48","slug":"battery-cell-cleaning-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/?p=5768","title":{"rendered":"Battery cell cleaning tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve been repairing quite a lot of ebike batteries and to be able to re-use the old cells I need to get rid of all the nickel strips and spot welds that are on the cell poles. So for I&#8217;ve been using a side cutter to cut everything off to my best ability and then a dremel tool to grind off the remainder. The problem with this is that it&#8217;s quite messy and there&#8217;s a big risk of damaging the cells if grinding to much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After wathing a youtuber make a servo-driven tool to cut the welds off 18650 cells I thought I&#8217;d give it a go, so I made a quick design in CAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cad_1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1250\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/cad_1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5769\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of a gilloutine with a cradle to support the battery cell and a grinded cutter (stump from a MGN-12 rail) that slides in a track.. I&#8217;d thought I&#8217;d see if a 3D-printed tool would suffice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230107_112939.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230107_112939.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5770\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>So, that&#8217;s what it looks like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230107_112949.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230107_112949.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5771\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You slide the battery in as far as it goes, apply some pressure to keep it from sliding back and depress the handle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230107_113023.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/20230107_113023.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5772\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And it cuts all the crap from the cell cap. It works fairly OK, I might need to re-grind the cutter to be more aggressive though.. but as for now I&#8217;m happy with the result. It&#8217;s on par with the grinding wheel without all the metal dust flying everywhere. Some welds and nickel strips take quite a lot of force to cut off though so we&#8217;ll see how long this tool&#8217;ll last.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve been repairing quite a lot of ebike batteries and to be able to re-use the old cells I need to get rid of all the nickel strips and spot welds that are on the cell poles. So for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/?p=5768\">Forts\u00e4tt l\u00e4sa <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[88,95],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5774,"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5768\/revisions\/5774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.runstenracing.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}