From: Steve C. (stevec50_at_yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 16:06:10 EDT
I was able to bust open a dead battery pack once
without too much trouble but couldn't find any
reasonably priced replacement cells to fix it with.
Those were round but the newer ones are rectangular
and must be really hard to find.
--- STeve Andre' <andres_at_msu.edu> wrote:
> Judging from my one experience in trying to tear a
> thinkpad battery apart,
> I don't
> think it will be at all easy.
>
> I get the feeling that these things are made
> entirely by machine, with no real
> intent of ever opening them up again. In the case
> of Li-ON batteries there
> might even be some legal issues, since there has
> been a past history of Li
> batteries burning up UPS tracks (ala Mollie cells,
> et al).
>
> If you do however find info on this, please please
> tell us about it. I suspect
> that you'll have an adventure doing it.
>
> --STeve
>
> At 01:34 PM 4/3/00 -0700, Andrew Scott Beals wrote:
> >Well, some ebay bargains just aren't.. I'm now the
> proud owner of a
> >totally dead 770 battery pack. My machine won't
> charge it -- tries for
> >a few moments and then gives up.
> >
> >Is it worth $279.00 of my time to tear this thing
> apart and drop new
> >cells into it? If so, could someone please give me
> a URL to a web site
> >that tells me how IBM put this pack together so I
> can open it up without
> >destroying it?
> >
> >thanks in advance
> >
> > andy
> >
>
>
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