<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Thanks, Ronnie. I’ve watched Project Farm videos before, but never spent time reviewing everything he has to offer. I could (and undoubtedly will) kill a lot of time there! I watched a few of the knockoff battery reviews and they were very informative. Still, I am not sure what my options are here, since there is no longer an OEM version available. The one I bought (not one of the brands he reviewed, I am afraid) should be here shortly and I will post my review - absent the extensive testing - when I have some experience with it.<br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jun 27, 2025, at 8:16 AM, Ronnie Day <ronnie.day@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto">For third party replacement battery packs check out the various tests on the Project Farm YouTube channel. He does very extensive testing and evaluations.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 26, 2025 at 9:52 PM Jim Juhas <<a href="mailto:james.f.juhas@snet.net">james.f.juhas@snet.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
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Jim,<br>
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For what it's worth, in case you decide to rebuild, I have rebuilt
battery packs for my obsolete Craftsman 12 volt drill,<br>
and the battery packs for my old Sunpak high voltage camera flash
units. All of these originals were made with NiCd batteries and I've
used NiMH with great success. I source the batteries from
<a href="http://onlybatteries.com/" target="_blank">ONLYBATTERIES.COM</a>. The great advantage to the rebuild route is I get
to select higher capacity batteries than the originals. They take
longer to charge with the original chargers but last enough longer
in the devices to make it worthwhile. This has been an incredible
advantage in using the camera flash unit. The Sunpak packs uses low
voltage sub c or AA sizes, depending on when they were made, to
operate an oscillator circuit to generate a 510 volt equivalent for
the flash.<br>
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In my case, the original types are not available anywhere so
rebuilding was my only choice.<br>
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Jim<br>
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Thanks, David. The Amazon listing indicates compatibility with
the original charger and several reviews say they had no trouble
doing so. It is a $40-$50 gamble either way and I have too many
projects at the moment to add rebuilding a battery pack to the
mix. I will give the Amazon pack a try and report back.
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<div>p.s. I switched to Milwaukee battery tools, as well. I
started with the M12 set and then added M18’s as well. I
especially like the fact that one charger will charge both the
12v and 18v batteries. I still have some of my old tools and
have bought a couple of adaptors to be able to continue using a
few of them with the M18 batteries. They are reasonably
inexpensive and work very well. I wish I could do that with the
Bosch saw, but no one make one and, while I could probably rig
something using the old pack, I don't want to risk burning out
the motor running it at only 18 volts.<br id="m_-7545381191938205372lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage">
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<div dir="ltr">I used to have an
old Makita drill that came with Ni-Cad a battery
that eventually stopped being usable. I bought a
pair of lithium-based replacement batteries. On
the surface they looked like a much better option
with double the capacity and they worked with
existing drill and charger. But (there's always a
but, isn't there?) to make Lithium batteries work
in a Ni-Cad environment required a electronic
circuit and this circuit was always on and drew
enough power to deplete the battery overnight. I
could charge them up in the evening and the next
morning they would be close to dead.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">But I see these
are Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries. Ni-MH
batteries have characteristics more similar to
Lithium - at least with regards to the charging
regime (I've designed a battery charger for Ni-MH
so I am familiar with this) but are less
susceptible to abuse. I also see the bullet point
about no self-discharge - which was my problem.
This is a $45 gamble (as it is with most no-name
stuff from the Pacific rim) but YMMV. This might
be a good one. Let us know.</div>
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<div dir="ltr">BTW I bought a
pair of Milwaukee 12V tools and never looked
back. I pitched all my Ni-Cad drills and recycled
the batteries.</div>
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Tuesday, June 24, 2025 at 01:36:47 PM CDT, Jim
Stone <a href="mailto:1789alpine@gmail.com" target="_blank"><1789alpine@gmail.com></a> wrote: </div>
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<div>I have an old Bosch 24v miter saw that I
would like to be able to continue using for
quick, non critical cuts. The only problem
is that the NiCad batteries won’t hold a
charge long enough to be useful. And, I
don’t think there is a way to utilize other,
e.g. Milwaukee M18, batteries in a 24v
system. Besides, there don’t appear to be
any adaptors available.
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<div>So, that leaves me with two choices:
rebuild my current batteries or buy new
ones on Amazon. I’ve taken one of the
battery packs apart and can see that it
just uses standard Sub C 1.2v batteries -
20 of them! I’ve never rebuilt battery
packs but it looks pretty straight
forward; just time consuming. 20 Sub C
batteries would run me about $40-50.
(Having it done professionally looks to
cost at least twice that.) Or, I could
just buy a Chinese-made replacement pack
for just a few bucks more. (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Exmate-Replacement-Battery-Compatible-BH-2424/dp/B073Z9QHXS/ref=sr_1_17" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/Exmate-Replacement-Battery-Compatible-BH-2424/dp/B073Z9QHXS/ref=sr_1_17</a>).
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<div>I’m sure the replacement batteries are
also made in China, but is there any
reason to assume that rebuilding the packs
myself will result in a better, longer
lasting battery? Any advice from those
who have done this before will be much
appreciated.</div>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
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