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[cardie]

Ahh, ok I stand corrected! How do you go about getting them out then?

to be honest u would un soilder the battery and get rid of it but when ur inserting the new one just wack a bit of electric tape on it to keep it in place u dont want to be soildering it back on n fecking up battert if u can help it

[aaamusements]

Rather than simply replacing that battery with another like part would it not make sense to replace it with a holder and use a CR2032?

Yep, that would make a lot of sense. They didn't do this originally because it would have cost slightly more!

[cardie]

^^^^ see the spelling mistakes its cos FRENCH is his first LANGUAGE!!!!

with the french teacher i had you would be dribbling trying to pronounce words

[therotty]

Thanks to everyone for the help and advice - I managed to get the battery off and will go down the route of tape rather than solder for the replacement!

[cardie]

Thanks to everyone for the help and advice - I managed to get the battery off and will go down the route of tape rather than solder for the replacement!

make sure you wrap up the battery tite so that if it leaks youve got time to notice and repair it

anything else just give us a shout

[serviceenginner]

if you just tape it in place it wont charge correctly
that is why it has a bit of solder on there

[cardie]

if you just tape it in place it wont charge correctly
that is why it has a bit of solder on there

will it not

its metal touching metal i dont see how it would effect it to be honest

or is it somthing to with it having to be in direct contact

[aaamusements]

Yes, it needs solder. The contact on a pcb is on the surface of the board whereas most of the contact that the pin has without solder will be through the hole, where there is no metal to contact.
Even if you get lucky with a good contact then heat expansion could soon mess that up when the machine is on.

Couple of other points:
That is a lithium battery. It is not designed to recharge.
Lithium batteries do not tend to leak in normal use, even when they get old.

[roderz]

re: therotty:
Hi are you the guy who contacted me at work 2 weeks ago regarding mem reset & BNV code probs ?
if so sorry not got back but been on hol's.
The battery's are rechargeable, best way to get them off is either use a solder sucker from the underside of the board or if you haven't got a solder sucker cut the battery of on the component side but try to leave as much of the pins sticking up as u can, - then apply soldering iron to other side of board while gently pulling the pin from the side (using pliers not fingers!)
CPC do actually stock the exact same part with the legs on it (Maxell order code - BT01218 - £4.41)
but as sugessted any same voltage rechargable battery could be used if you had the holder and soldered fly leads from it to the board.
the higher the Ah rating the better as it will last longer - useful when using a machine infrequently at home.