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ddawg16

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It's real simple.....go to store...buy new battery.

Bottom line....all those 'tricks' you read about....are just that...tricks....

In some cases, you 'might' get a few extra runs out of a battery...but in about 99% of the batteries, it's done...it's useful life is over....time to replace.

However...there is an exception....in many cases most battery packs are actually a collection of batteries...and in most cases, it's just one or two batteries that are bad. In those cases, you can cut them out...solder in new ones and get some useful life out of the pack.
 

Tim The Tool Man

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Lehigh Valley, PA
I have had great luck rejuvenating my NiCad batteries. Through a proceedure called zapping. I take my welder (can use car battery charger as well) and put the neutral to neutral battery and then quickly touch the welding tip to the other terminal. For a better description see:

This really does work. I have a pack from '04 that has been zapped a few time and it still works well. I will admit that I have also had batteries that are totally shot even after zapping.


BTW wear face protection just in case...
 
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