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Yeah that's not really practicable. I'm gonna try and change the charger adapter first to see if that works as my new battery is not recharging aswell. I think that's my problem.

I figured it out by means of buying a spare battery, the only left spare batteries for this model in the world were in New Zealand. Lucky I had a friend who lives there and bought it for me and delivered it to me in Europe. Charging it as we speak I will test it later on. But reading the manual thoroughly again about the charger docking station, it says "the charging indicator will come on..." But I don't see any indicator lights on the charger station (5KCL12CSOB). Did you see any indicator lights on it? It makes me feel that actually my battery wasn't broken, but the charging station is.... I'm charging the new battery now, so if that fails to recharge, then it must be the charger station. If that's the case, do you know if there is a different charging station available, maybe even by KitchenAids own brand, that can charge these batteries? A different model I mean, one that has indicator lights? Or even an after market one?

Thanks Smithy for adding me to the forum. Any luck with this? Did you manage to buy the same or similar lithium batteries and fixed the re-charging issue? I got the same problem, you see. And I've only used the KitchenAid for like 10 times! I'm thinking more that the battery charger and the charging station with it are at fault, or the cause for the broken battery, because I have left the battery in the holder on charge for a long time without using it. Maybe it got overcharged. Surely the charger or station should have a cut-off mechanism build in? (I need to test first though, if the battery is broken and not the charger or station...) Anyway, if you did manage to fix it, please share some more details and pictures how you done it, as I'm now left with an almost new KitchenAid that's completely useless. Cheers!