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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Feb 9, 2008, at 2:01 PM, WF Smith wrote:

> > Charge the battery, install it in the drill, put a rubber band on the
> trigger and run it til it dies. Let the battery cool and charge it  
> again and
> repeat. Run the battery through three cycles and see if it doesn't  
> improve.
> Let it cool off after you discharge it.

I did it as you suggested, through three cycles, letting it run down  
to full stop, then letting the battery cool before recharge. Whether  
the charging time was overnight, forty minutes, or five hours, the run  
times were all seventeen minutes.