Battery options for 82143A printer

[Dave Britten]

(02-16-2020 01:50 AM)mfleming Wrote:  Nicely done! I received a dead rebuilt battery pack that used the same technique for bringing out the contacts. Never occurred to me to use a spot of hot glue to hold things in place inside the case, but I'll give it a try next time. Thanks for the tip.

Yeah, it worked great. At first I was wracking my brain trying to figure out a good way to secure the leads, thinking I'd need to attach them to the other half of the shell and slide the batteries in underneath the floating contacts, and then I realized, "Oh duh, glue it to the spine..." You just have to do it fast enough that the glue doesn't harden before pressing the contact strip into place, i.e. you want it nice and flat against the spine so it doesn't prevent the batteries from sitting deep enough in the tray. Trim any excess glue that comes out from underneath using your preferred knife.