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kjlem-
Pretty sure someone must've been in there, fuck knows what they were doing.
I was trying to get the cells out so I could seal up a couple of cracks in the top of the casing, but I wasn't game to apply more than a little bit of force trying to break the glue holding them in. Ended up just welding the cracks from the outside with my soldering iron.
Kimmo
Like I said, it's easily a great deal more robust than one that was never munted. Not sure why that isn't apparent... Originally the flimsy plastic base was slightly reinforced by a flimsy bit of ally sandwiching the plastic by three bolts. Now there's a 3mm bit of ally plate running all the way across and along under the retention clips, and the three bolts are holding the glue ridges in compression (because I did it with washers in place) against the tube. It's solid as fuck.
Pretty sure the melting point is above what's necessary. Especially now that I soldered a wire inside the battery which was just twisted together for some reason, and had started to melt its way through the bottom...