dpb wrote:

Richard Evans wrote:
...
On the one hand, I hate to throw away a perfectly good tool for lack
of a battery. ...

Suggestions?

Have the battery packs rebuilt.

Batteries Plus wants $56 to rebuild it, but they looked up my model
number and found it's been replaced and the replacement battery is
$36. Now that I have the new model number, I might even find it
cheaper online.

Thanks for the tip.