At 5:06 PM -0500 1/14/03, Rick Delzeith wrote:
>FYI, The other day I put one of these old batteries in an external
>Apple brand charger overnight.
>About 2:00 AM was woken by a loud CRACK, sounded like a rifle shot.
>Even set the dog off.
>The end of one of the cells had blown partially out cracking and
>expanding the plastics.
>I'm glad it wasn't in the 165c when it went. Whats the easy way to
>pull one apart?
>The hard way appears to be alot of careful work with a utility knife,
>then lots of black tape
>to reassenble.
BTW, this is NOT the same battery! You are talking about a 100
SERIES battery, NOT A PB100 battery which is a 6.5" x 4" x 0.5" lead acid
battery for the PB 100. I don't think these batteries are worth
rebuilding, unless they have gotten really expensive lately.
Paul
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