One of my dewalt 18v batteries will no longer hold a charge. I know its not my charger because the other battery will hold a charge from that charger. Is there any trade value or recylce program or any way to rejuv. the battery (possibly by dewalt) What about disposal…I know its not a landfill item.
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I think the big boxes like lowes and h-depot will recycle them. You might be able to get new batteries replaced in the old case at somewhere like batteries plus. They properly dispose of the old.
And Radio Shack will take in old rechargable batteries. The cadium in them is both worth something and quite toxic. So it makes sense to keep it out of the land fill.
I would be happy to pay postage to send it to me. I just started asking around for a dead DeWalt battery. I've got one my drills set up to operate a groundwater sampling pump and would like to (in addition to running it on the drill battery), run it straight from a car battery. I've done it with jumper wires and alligator clips, but adapting an old DeWalt battery pack would make a nicer, easy to use adaptor. (I would take the 15 individual ni-cad cells to a recycler).
David;
How about you pay for postage to send me to Kenai. If you want this 18v Dewalt battery, I will check the cost of postage and send it to you. Give me a nod it you want me to check. Want are you sampling the groundwater for?
Craig B.
Evergreen, CO
Craig,
Yes, please check if you don't mind. USPS parcel post is cheapest. UPS doesn't offer surface shipping up here so they are spendy.
I usually am sampling for fuel hydrocarbons (gasoline, diesel, avgas, etc). Occasionally something more interesting like chlorinated solvents from dry cleaners or heavy metals from plating operations.
One of my most interesting sites is in Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island in the Aleutians. Most spills occurred slowly over many decades. But we know when this spill happened. June 3, 1942. When the Japanese bombed the tanks from their bases on occupied Attu and Kiska Islands further out the Aleutian chain. One day I was there, there were wind gusts to 143 mph!
Woody: Yes, I would interested in those adaptors. Between doing work at remote sites, caving, headlight use during skiing (short winter days), and, of course, power tool use; there are just too many alligator clips and jumper wires in my life. So are you in Alaska (extra shipping)? Or Canada (exchange rate)?
David Thomas Overlooking Cook Inlet in Kenai, Alaska
Edited 8/23/2002 3:20:44 PM ET by David Thomas
I deal with a company that makes a battery testing tool for the repair industry. they have adapters for most of the major tool companies, dewalt,makita ect. if you want the address info so that you can use most any of the batteries out there, let me know and I'll post it. I did something similar and made a portable bilge pump for my skiff and I use makita batteries to supply the juice. works great, I think I got $30 into the whole thing, thats $20 to all you guys in the lower 48.