You can also have your batteries rebuilt. A 36V Hilti NiCad battery rebuild costs about $108 via the internet, and I found a local Interstate Battery store that said they would do it for ~$80. An 18 V battery would run half that. Li-ion batteries are more expensive (if you can even find a rebuilder) and they take a special charger.
(I am using a Hilti hammer drill with tapered bull pins for digging projects here in NM. But if you get a cheap one off the internet count on it needing a new battery soon.) - Pete On Nov 3, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Tom Rogers wrote: Don't dispose of your bad cordless batteries. Take them apart and you can harvest 5- 10 18650 batts of which one or two might be shorted out. I had three bad 18 volt batts. Now I have more caving batteries than I can keep up with. Someone with more electrical knowledge might even be able to fix the cordless batteries, which was my original intention. Till I discovered that they were filled with 18650's. Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
