How to attach leads straight to battery?

On 7/28/2011 7:17 AM, Smitty Two wrote:
In ,
"Nobody wrote:

But every time you have heat-damaged them (to some degree)by soldering,
or didn't get a true "solder bond" and all you did was a ****-poor glue
job with a blob of solder. .. usually both.

Bull****. I solder for a living and know how to do it. I'm not
advocating it for others, especially those who don't know how to solder.

So did I (retired now). You and I both agree on the part of advocating
soldering repairs "for the masses". I didn't know that before my statements.

I was making money at age 10 fixing botched Heathkits. Bad soldering was
~60% of the problems I found.

In some ways, I'm glad I retired. The areas of electronics I dealt in
hadn't been hit by RoH "solder" yet, but it was coming fast. The few
times I dealt with that crap, I hated it, but I guess I could have
learned it if I had to.

--
"**** this is it, all the pieces do fit.
We're like that crazy old man jumping
out of the alleyway with a baseball bat,
saying, "Remember me mother****er?"
Jim “Dandy” Mangrum

On 7/23/2011 1:52 PM, micky wrote:
It seems my IBM Thinkpad's CMOS battery has died, and it's know that
it won't boot wihtout it.

I don't have time to wait for a new one by mail, plus I have some
CR2032's in my fridge. The flat things that look like litttle
frisbees.

The current one has the wires connected to metal tabs stuck (welded?)
to the battery on both sides. Is there a way I can do this without
exploding or otherwise ruining the battery???????

I see that Radio Shack has a clip that holds such a battery but I
think it's too thick to fit. I just tore apart a 16 year old
computetr to get it's battery holder, but it was defintiely too thick
(Does anyone want a kit to make a 16 year-old computer?)

Thanks.

Is there an electronic supply house in your area? Even us backward
Southern Hillbillies have a dozen supply houses for electronics and
alarm systems that stock lithium coin cells with spot welded leads
to replace those common memory batteries in all types of electronic
equipment. It doesn't have to be labeled as the specific replacement
for your IBM computer, it's the same battery used in many different
types of microprocessor controlled gear.

TDD

Somewhere on teh intarwebs wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:03:51 -0600, Tony Hwang
wrote:

Hmm,
Look hard you can find a battery with soldering tab.

micky wrote:
It seems my IBM Thinkpad's CMOS battery has died, and it's know that
it won't boot wihtout it.

I don't have time to wait for a new one by mail, plus I have some
CR2032's in my fridge. The flat things that look like litttle
frisbees.

The current one has the wires connected to metal tabs stuck
(welded?) to the battery on both sides. Is there a way I can do
this without exploding or otherwise ruining the battery???????

I see that Radio Shack has a clip that holds such a battery but I
think it's too thick to fit. I just tore apart a 16 year old
computetr to get it's battery holder, but it was defintiely too
thick (Does anyone want a kit to make a 16 year-old computer?)

Thanks.
Hi,You can find a battery with soldering tabs. I am a LONG term TP
user. 4 of them in the house.
Just got rid of 3 370s, two 700s and 3 or 4 600s (Es and Xs) within
the last couple of months. Still have a T43 in my DJ box.

TOUGH machines!!!!!

Yup. I'm typing this on a T60, my newest TP, and I have another dozen or so
going back to about 2003 around the place, most working, the rest being
repaired.
--
Shaun.

"He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a
monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also
into you." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche