Bought a PowerBook 100 battery off of eBay

[trigf]

Earlier this year I raided a co-worker's Apple collection and bought his PowerBook 100 off of him. 

Unfortunately, his did not have a battery, or even a cover. It's been sitting on the shelf with an open battery door, driving me crazy.

Every so often, I'll look on eBay and Amazon for a cheap broken 100, or just the battery. This weekend I found a brand new, still plastic-sealed PowerBook 100 battery. I offered the seller $50, which they accepted. 

Now I'm certain that this battery is beyond useful, and I'm mostly buying it for cosmetic purposes. Is there any way to disassemble the battery so I can safely use it? I emember this battery being a sealed lead acid battery that had a plastic wrapping on it, and not hard plastic, like the rest of the PowerBook 1xx series batteries. 

 

[techknight]

You can get the battery rebuilt at a place like Batteries Plus. 

 

[Cory5412]

I bought a brand new PowerBook 180 battery a bit earlier this year. The first time I tried to use it, it got about an hour of run-time. The 180 was the big presentation-class notebook at the time. I espected that it was probably a few years old already, but perhaps if I wear it in a little better, it'll run longer. I need to take a look at it again.

 

[aplmak]

I take the little cover off of the battery (it has two tabs on the end which you have to flex at the same time) and slide it off. Then you can place it on the powerbook to cover the hole. I don't think there is a way in those lead acid batteries.. they are completely sealed.. I have an aftermarket one I use that the cover comes off and I am currently replacing the internal "gumstick" batteries.. This battery is Ni-MH... I've got mine working great with all the caps replaced! Also threw in 8MB of ram... I had 6MB ram modules that I soldered the extra 2MB 512K chips on the open spots on the board..

 

[trigf]

Thanks for the info guys