Batteries, Batt...ttt..eries, Batt...t...t..eries - why wilt you die...

I feel your pain, I have a couple of Dewalt Drill batteries that are not holding their charge as well as they used to.
But in you current situation a good handsaw never needs recharging :0)

-- "You get what you inspect, not what you expect"

I have the same problem. Go to http://www.astromart.com/articles/article.asp?article_id=587 and see if you have what it takes to repair them. I am still trying to figure out if I have the talent to do it to mine.

-- Bill

frustrating isn’t it?
My old Makita 6012 was awesome in its day.
Batteries have bitten the dust. Borrowed a battery and found that I also need a new charger.
Can’t afford to buy them. Was cheaper to buy a whole new set sigh
I’m a fix it guy stuck in a throw away world
So now I have the loveliest blue paperweight~

-- CaptnA - "When someone hurts you, write it in the sand so the winds of forgiveness will scatter the memory... "

Thanks for that article Bill. That looks quite doable. I have a couple of 18v and 12v Dewalts that are starting to give trouble.

-- The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them

Try charging them, & then run them until they’re dead, then recharge them again, & again.

Sometimes they’ll build themselves up again.

Dewalt has a two year warranty, & they have a date on them. I’ve had a couple replaced at no cost at our

local fleet store.

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Thanks Bill, since I had nothing to lose- I was planning to take them batteries apart and see if I can fix them myself – I’m glad to see that my idea wasn’t so bad after all…. will keep you all posted with progress.

And I ain’t giving my yellow decorations away – no way! LOL (even though I might be tempted)

-- My Drinking Club has a Woodworking Problem...

I’ve had good luck with a chain called Batteries Plus but there are likely others with a similar plan. They can test the batteries to tell you whether the cells are bad (with my luck probably half the time) and the other half they somehow reset them (at no cost!). Not an expert on batteries but they do lose their ability to charge with time. Rebuilt batteries usually cost me probably half what a new one does and they can often rebuild the packs with greater amp-hour limits than the original. Just a thought…

My two 18 volt ryobi batteries just did the same thing. The charger reads them like they’re fully charged. Bought a new drill and flashlight with two batteries almost as cheap as buying two batteries….Go figure.

-- miles125, Alabama.."Architecture is frozen music""

Yes the batteries, i have many many different cordless tools from many diffrerent manufacturers and my problem is that they are alway dead. you would think with so many batteries i could keep something charged up.

-- jrlwoodworks

I feel your pain.

I have a bunch of cordless and batteryless tools as well.

At least I have a habit of buying new and improved models, so I don’t mind the batteries dying too much.

Lee

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I have a Yellow combo pack that I used forever and did everything wrong, according to the instructions. Left them in the back of the work truck, in the summer, in the winter, 20 below, 90 above. ‘Then I started working indoors and didn’t need them as much, they died from heartbreak. No kidding. As soon as I stopped using them everyday they died.

However, one of the big box stores frequently has a pair of the (18v) batteries for 90 bucks. And on most holidays they have some sort of tool blow out where they sell a drill/driver with charger and two batteries for about the same price. Labor day is coming up, keep an eye out.