Source for lithium-ion cells

So what were your results? You found nothing to compare prices against? If you've done all this research you know they're not going to be cheap.

What were my results? They were not conclusive or satisfactory, which is why I have asked for recommendations in this group.

I rebuilt my old Milwaukee a couple years ago. I bought generic ones on Ebay, they've worked fine. May not be much use, because I can't tell you a particular vendor and it's only a sample size of one.

Thanks, at least you addressed the question and helped to get the ball rolling.

Why did you not tell us in your first post that your search results were not conclusive nor satisfactory?

First, don't even think about soldering wires DIRECTLY onto cells. Don't even think about getting cells that aren't rated for high current. Make sure you're sitting down when you price high current cells. Maybe even put a towel in your mouth so you won't bite your tongue during the seizure.

Go to Lowes. (check stock online as they are getting scarce) They sell a battery pack for the Kobalt tools for $10

Contains six 18650 name brand high current tool cells. That's as cheap as it gets for HIGH CURRENT cells.

If you cut the tabs apart with a Dremel cutting wheel, there's enough tab left so you can safely solder them together IF YOU PUT A WET CLOTH ON THE CELL END AND DO IT VERY QUICKLY SO YOU DON'T TRANSFER HEAT TO THE CELL.

A battery tab spot welder is a much better choice.

There's some protection circuitry in the battery pack. You may or may not be able to rebuild them. When you disconnect the cells, the chip might forget its settings and refuse to restart, for your protection. I don't have any Kobalt tools to test it, but I disconnected the cells inside the Kobalt battery and reconnected. The battery test lights no longer worked. Don't know if they would run a drill.

I took a quick look at rebuilding a dead Ryobi pack. Didn't look like it was gonna restart...but I didn't try very hard.

I've had that problem with laptop battery packs. I only had one restart because it had a PIC processor and I could figger out how to reset it. All the rest just stayed dead. Some people claimed that, if the battery was only weak, but still functional, you could wire up a power supply to each cell connection to keep it alive while you changed the cells.

YMMV It would be really disappointing to buy a bunch of expensive cells and not be able to use them.

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__ Someone who thinks logically provides a nice contrast to the real world. (Anonymous)

Joan, a laxative might help with your problem.

Thanks

Thanks for your suggestion, my results were the same as the others who have responded.

Thanks, you have given me a lot of food for thought.

Then there is nothing more to add except possible the fact that you have rubber lips.

I'd add that my comments about successfully rebuilding that old Milwaukee was with an old battery pack that had no electronics in it, it was just a dumb battery pack. I managed to solder to the tabs on the new batteries with no problems.

It might help if you give us the sites you've searched so no one is suckered into doing searching and researching for you. After all, isn't that the reason for your post in the first place? You can't be bothered or don't have a clue what you should be looking for.

That's ok, you'll convince others here to spoon-feed you.

Joan, I suspect you are suffering with a reading comprehension problem. I specifically asked for "first hand experience". I am quite capable of using search engines and do not need anyone to search on my behalf.

No sure why you are behaving so aggressively towards me, but, you can take your attitude and shove it up your ass.

It is interesting to note that you contributed absolutely nothing to the subject matter of the thread.

Brian posted for all of us...

Are the original cells lithium ion? Materials matter as to charge rates.