[AT] cordless tool battery rebuilding

[william.neff.powell at comcast.net]

Has anyone every bought the C batteries separately and soldered them up? All of the units seem to be a bunch of C nicad batteries in series. 

For instance, I took my 14.4 Ryobi battery pack apart, 12 C batteries. 14.4 volts / 1.2 volts per battery = 12 batteries. 

So, my 18v drill must have 15 batteries. 


I see that Nicad C's are about $2.89 (Can they be found cheaper?), so if I did it myself around $35 in batteries. probably not worth it. If I could buy in quantity say four around $2 per nicad or cheaper it might be worth it? 





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Fleming" <hfleming at moosebird.net> 
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com> 
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 8:26:59 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern 
Subject: Re: [AT] cordless tool battery rebuilding 

Another one to try is Battery Mart, in Winchester VA. 

http://www.batterymart.com/ 

I have not had any tool batteries rebuilt by them (have to buy one 
first.... :o), but I have bought many other batteries from them without 
a problem (plus, they are local to me). 

Howard 


Don Bowen wrote: 
> I had some Porter Cable tool batteries rebuilt by Sunn Battery but they seem 
> to have gone out of business. I have a couple of Bosch batteries that need 
> rebuilt and am looking for another place to rebuild them. 
> 
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> Don Bowen KI6DIU 
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