On Apr 13, 11:31*pm, justallan wrote:

I have a lawn edger with an electric start that is powered by 4x sub C
nicads. *They have died and the charger has long gone missing.

So, you can replace both the nicads AND the charger? Get a
quad of NiMH AA cells and charger, and a four-cell battery holder,
and fire 'er up!