Re: Recharge Any Batteries In The Radio The Easy Way

Or
Just peel the jacket off the battery.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "utilitydx4u" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, September 06, 2009 9:44 PM
Subject: [VR-500] Recharge Any Batteries In The Radio The Easy Way



Take a piece of aluminum foil, and fold it over unto itself two times.
Make it very flat.
Make it so it's about the same width as a toothpick, about an inch long.
Remove the batteries from the radio.
You will notice on the bottom of the battery compartment, there is a flat 
metal tension spring that is used to make contact with Yaseu's rechargable 
battery pack. Take the piece of foil you made, and slide it just under that 
spring. (If you made the foil just the right size, it will also be touching 
the spring on it's width side also.) Make it reach all the way to the 
negative battery spring on the side of the case. This is the tough part, to 
get it just right. Try to wedge that side of the foil near the back of the 
spring, near the very bottom of the spring, to hold it tightly in place. 
Don't force it too hard or you may break the spring from its mount. The 
trick is to make that piece of foil just right, so it stays wedged both 
behind the bottom recharging spring and the battery recharging spring, it is 
laying very flat, and once it is fully installed, it is not protruding out 
of the bottom spring on the other side, where you first started inserting 
the foil.
The other trick is to keep the foil flat. There is already little if any 
clearance left in the battery compartment. Make it too tall or too thick and 
you risk putting stress on the battery cover or case and cracking it. Most 
of todays batteries vary in dimensions and are bigger than spec standards, 
already making a tight fit to start with.

This works great here.
At the very least it keeps me from removing and fully recharging the 
batteries somewhat, without having to re-open the battery compartment all 
the time.