I've had people replace those batteries for me just soldering leads on any 
battery with the right specs many times. I've also had one of those radios 
where someone put the holder in there so it's easy to replace. It's a little 
tight that way but makes things a lot easier.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Duke, K5XU" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, May 18, 2015 6:25 AM
Subject: Re: Radio Shack HT Internal Battery


> Yes, this battery is soldered into the radio.
>
> And, of course, Radio Shack stopped selling the replacement battery
> with the pig tails of wire attached to it years ago.
>
> An engineer at work replaced two of them for me about 3 years back.
>
> I took the old battery to Interstate Battery. A technician there
> soldered some leads onto similar sized button batteries for me,
> although technically, I don't think they are suppose to be heated like 
> that.
>
> I have been told that there is enough room inside the HT to install a
> holder for a similar battery, but I have not asked anyone to do that
> for me yet. I will look further into that possibility the next time one
> of the batteries fails.
>
> When the lithium battery dies, you lose the memories each time the
> radio is turned off. Then you get a bunch of beeps and an error message
> each time it is turned on. Additionally, everything about the radio
> resets to its defaults each time as well.
>
> You can make it work, but re-programming even one channel every time
> you want to use it gets old in a hurry.
>
> -- 
> Mike Duke, K5XU