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You can solder a pack of these together for about £20 to replace the old cells. http://www.all-battery.com/nicdsubc2200mahrechargeablebatteryflattop-1.aspx

Yeah, it's great that stuff is cheap to buy new but I hate being driven into buying it by overpriced replacement parts. These guys could make a lot more by selling me a battery for £15 that costs them £3 to make than selling me a £15 drill that costs £8.

It pains me to throw something out that could give another 20 years of good use, especially when the solution could be a tenners worth of new cells /new transformer. It amazes me that I have to do things like throw out a good scanner because no one makes drivers for it to talk to Windows...

Cheers, that looks like a handy bit of kit, might grab one.

Why do you say that? Yeah I've got a couple of newer drills I just hate to bin something that's perfectly usable. It's also handy to have a few drills so I can drill countersink and screw without fannying about changing bits.

I've got an old 9.6V Black and Decker Proline  PL97 cordless drill whose batteries are dead. I can buy replacements for about £35 but 2 of those will cost more than a new drill. Stupidly I dumped the old batteries before I released I can rebuild the packs myself so that's not really an option...