[ltp] Re: Battery croaked

[Timothy Murphy]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 07:58:22 am Adrian Bastholm wrote:

> I tried dissasembling a battery pack, and I failed miserably. First,
> the battery case is almost welded shut, and you'll probably bend or
> break the plastic case and almost surely break one of the plastic
> hooks that hold the case shut. Second of all, there are a couple of
> circuit boards that are kindof easy to crack when trying to remove
> them, and third of all, you need to do some soldering of wires to
> battery cells. The cells themselves weren't of standard size, they
> were slightly bigger than AA batteries.

There used to be a company or companies that re-furbished
ThinkPad batteries, presumably by disassembling them.
Do they still exist?
Are they any good?

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