mm wrote in
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On Sun, 05 Mar 2006 15:01:02 -0500, Jeff Wisnia
wrote:

m Ransley wrote:

right bubba, Raise health care costs, jeese, and what will happen,
exactly nothing. Disposable, yes look at the price charged, where do
you think the high profit items are when a battery costs more than
the tool. Sealed, yes, so HR people have to have special tools or
pay the ripoff charged. Another example, did you ever stop to think
for one moment why a pennies worth of ink in a printer costs 40$,
its called Profit, and thats what batteries are, pure profit.


Yes, and it's hardly a new idea. When King Gilette brought out the
safety razor he gave them away so people would then buy the blades.

But I do change out the nicad batteries in our Dust Busters when they
"wear out". Those little vacs disassemble with threaded fasteners, and
it's a no brainer to solder in a few tabbed cells from Rat Shack.

Hmmmm. Didn't my mother 15 years ago have a Dust Buster with easily
replaceable rechargeable batteries? I think so.

There was a version that used two VersaPak "cartridges".
The others all used internal "hardwired" packs.

No they have to be
soldered... they're trying to get people to buy a whole new Buster??



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