The vet for whom i volunteer asked me if i knew anything about battery rebuilding for his Dewalt 12V. I’ve done a search here and found information only on sending them away for rebuilding, which i’ve sent on to him.
However, i have some dim memory of a discussion on how to DIY the rebuild, buying batteries somewhere (?) and soldering them together. The vet is a capable guy who could handle that part if there were a source for the components.
Can anyone remember a thread(s) like that or get me lined out on finding partz?
Junkhound, this seems right up your alley… <G>
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not worth it in my opion
but heres a couple of threads on it elsewhere
http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?t=278833
http://forum.doityourself.com/showthread.php?t=238746
Oh, fine! A whole new forum to read! You are evil.... <G>Thanks, exactly the info i/he needs. I read a post over there telling how to do the rebuild in a Dewalt 12V and the batts were bought at a Radio Shack. I assumed it would be a lot more exotic than that.
Edited 10/3/2006 6:37 pm ET by splintergroupie
It is JH , and he uses Harbour Freight batts, but I recall, 18volt.
It really is not worth the effort IMO.
Upgrade, buy a new whatever, with brandy new OEM batts.
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I've been trying to tell him this is the perfect opportunity to amble on over to Amazon and get a 12V Right-angle drill with a couple batts and the extra charger. His eyes lit up momentarily, but i think he likes the idea of a challenge. He just fabricated a new laryngoscope for us out of a light pointer and a piece of metal tubing. I've used it for tubing the mutts and it's not bad....
More power to him..
oh, that was bad.
I do know that some of the batt tabs are really heat sensitive, as per JH, so soldering is the art and science, with well placed heat sinks.
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I had to look in the guts of my dead 18v basch and it had mostly sticky tape joints. I'll go look again but it is so painfull to see that dead 70bucks in the bottom of a coffee can.
I've got a lot of those expensive coffee cans, too. I'll go buy tne new tool, but i still can't throw out its fallen comrad.
I bought the same kind of batteries on the internet somewhere. They had solder tabs. I replaced about half of the old ones. You can tell the bad ones with a voltmeter. The voltage will be reversed. What should show as positive shows as negative and vice versa.
I got about 6 months more out of it until the other batteries went bad. Then just went out and bought a new battery pack at Lowe's.
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I'll forward your information. Solder tabs sound easy.
How's that house foundation coming along?