My proprietary camera batteries don't last long when new and as I'm not a photography enthusiast I find, when the camera does come out, the batteries have discharged to the point of not taking a charge.
My cunning plan is an external battery pack of standard (cheaper and higher capacity) NiMH. Trouble is I need a dummy battery of the correct shape and with contacts in the right place to wire my external battery pack to.
What do you reckon to me removing the guts of one of my dead Lithium Ion batteries? Am I going to die in terrible pain? Googling just tells me they are fine in normal use but I'm not sure about cutting the things up.
I do have a paint spraying respirator as well as an unused one left over from some asbestos removal at work. Rubber gloves and everything done on a big sheet of plastic to be disposed of afterwards?