[Shop-talk] Cordless tool battery packs - the current state

[mg_garage at comcast.net]

>From what I have been told from local battery rebuilder is that they will not rebuild my Li-on battery packs.  Turned out my Li-on charger had taken a crap and battery packs okay.

From: Matt
Sent: Friday, February 3, 2017 1:57 PM
To: shop-talk at autox.team.net
Subject: [Shop-talk] Cordless tool battery packs - the current state

I have 2 questions for this august body, but for simplicity I will break them up:
 
Time to repower my fleet of Porter Cable 18V tools.
I have seen over the years the various options to rebuild the battery packs and it looks like there are services and do it yourself packs that are already assembled for the DIYer to put into their plastic housing.  THe rebuilder folks claim they use quality batteries and they produce better packs.
EBay seems to have plenty of "new" options as well, mostly from China.  I currently have nicad chargers but the availability of dual nicad or li-ion widens the options.
I don't use these every day, or even every week, but a couple of times a month I am working on something.
 
Any guidance from the group re nicad vs li-ion.
Off the shelf vs US rebuild or battery pack?
 
Thanks!
Matt in GA

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