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I need a pair of re-chargeble batteries for my Dewalt drill. The drill is fine, but both batteries are toast and Dewalt no longer makes the model drill or batteries.

I googled it last night, but I figured I'd see where others have had good luck.

Model number? Voltage?

Also see: Power Tool Battery Repair: Resources for Rebuilding Your Rechargeable Batteries

Pat,

Its a DW926 9.6 volt. I bought a new 14.4 volt drill last night, but I figured I'd see if I could get replacements cheap for the old one. There seems to be a number of different batteries that will fit, the major diff is in the capacity. I'm not sure what the original was (1500 mah?) or what I should replace it with.

I have a Standard Horizon hand held VHF radio that needed a discontinued battery.

I sent it to NiCad lady or something along those lines, and it came back quickly, working and with a good price paid. Rebuilt.

I would recommend them, and I will go back if I need to.

Dug

http://www.nicdladyonline.com/

Can someone educate me on what 3000 mah means. Does that mean it will last 2x as long as 1500?

milli amp hour

this co. grainger carrys alot of stuff.
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/start.shtml

Thanks. Does that mean it will last 2x as long between charges?

Roughly, yup...

The nicad lady site says 4-6 week turnaround on rebuilds. I have a box full of dead cordless tools that need battery rebuilds. Anyone know of a good battery rebuilder that is not that far backed up? The battery is the weak link in all these cordless power tools. I just bought a B&D power screwdriver that uses 4 AA batteries vs. a rechargable one and so far it has lasted a very long time on the same 4 batteries.

Maybe the solution is to convert the nicads to throwaway alkilines? Any place that does that?

UV

Don't throw away those old 12 volt cordless drills just because you can't get batteries. You can convert it to run on the boats starting or house battery. Handy to keep on board. Just remove the battery and take a look at how she comes apart. Attach two long leads to the battery connections. Put on battery clips to the other end and hook her up to the 12 volt battery.

Just trying to be creative. Heck you could even do that with a nine volt if you could figure out how to put 9 volts together on a separate battery pack.

Vic,

They say that, and stick to it, but I got mine back in 2-3 weeks. It really depends on how busy they are and they have not been that busy. Send them one and see how it goes. That would be my advice.

Dug

I go the following reply back from the Nicad lady:

Hello,
Thank you for contacting our company. When it comes to rebuilding
tool packs, there's a concern about being cost effective. Rebuilding these
packs is rather pricey compared to replacements if they are still available.
The price depends on cell type, chemistry, voltage, and capacity. As an
example, a 9.6V NiCd pack would cost $61.00 plus tax and or shipping to
rebuild using Sanyo 2400mAh NiCd cells. This is the highest capacity NiCd
Sub-C cell Sanyo made before they discontinued making NiCd cells. The price changes accordingly with change of voltage, capacity, and chemistry. The main reasons for the high cost are we only use very high quality Sanyo and Panasonic cells. Also, these packs are some of the most difficult packs to rebuild so there's a lot of labor involved. At the very least, a person would receive a very high quality rebuilt battery once we were done with it.
It's hard to compete with the major tool brands as they usually use cheap
unknown cells in their packs combined with cheap mass production labor. In our opinion, this is why these packs don't last long. We have a few
limitations on the packs we do rebuild. They must be held together with
screws or similar fasteners and use either NiCd or NiMH cells. We don't
rebuild any Li-Ion batteries of any kind due to inherent hazards not to
mention the cost effectiveness is even worse with this chemistry. We don't
rebuild sealed tool packs as the labor involved puts the price even higher.
After all this, about the only time it's worth rebuilding these packs is when replacements aren't available anymore and you really like the tool and don't want to discard it. We include a full one year warranty on our rebuilding services for tool packs. Please let us know if we can be of
further assistance.

In my case it doesn't really seem like its worth the money.