On 12/5/2015 8:52 AM, bob haller wrote:
replacement bateries are usualy old new stock.so they dont work well.......

so company x manufacturers millions of a battery operated drill, and orders thousands of replacement batteries.

the original batteries begin to fail so they start selling the replacements that have been sitting on the warehouse shelf for years.

they are unused but as old as the batteries they are replacing and cost almost as much as a new drill. worse because they are old they dont work well

the feds should require all cordless tools have easy to replace cells in the battery packs, this could be done.

just open the packs and install new cells.

less waste.

oh and dont solder to any new cells you purchase.

the manufacturers spot weld the connections, which doesnt heat the cells.

soldering heat yyour new cells and can do long term damageaa,.
yeah, I was gonna bring this up after seeing a number of instructable
pages about replacing batteries.
replacing batteries can be had for $12-15 and in some cases, free, old
batteries can be brought back to life if they are NICD batteries, not
sure about NIMH batteries tho.

I see that they are basically R/C batteries placed in a container.
It's a basically a rip off more or less based on the razor blade model
sales.

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