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Originally Posted by Eric H
This is AC/DC but I hadn't noticed till just now that it has a built in battery pack.
I seriously doubt the batteries are any good at this point but I found a switch on the back to turn the charger on/off so I turned it on and will see what happens.
Perhaps they can be rebuilt by putting new NiCad batterys inside?
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Back in the day, my parents bought one of these except that it had the much more common white cabinet instead of red. It was actually a pretty decent little set, and we had it in the family for quite a while.
The battery pack is made up of two lead-acid "gel-cell" batteries, not NiCd. I can practically guarantee you they will now be as dead as a doornail. Don't try to replace it with a NiCd battery pack, especially since I don't think the charging circuit in this set is very sophisticated. As I recall, the gel-cell batteries in this set didn't appear to be an "industry standard" size, but you can probably find some of the proper voltage that can at least be made to fit in the base.
Have fun!