A challenge - alternative power source whilst awaiting new charger!

Hello-
Would be very grateful for any thoughts anybody can give. I appreciate there is an obvious solution - get a new cable - but that's not possible between now and tomorrow.
I'm trying to use an old powerbook G4 on which the power supply exploded today. It has since run out of battery, but seemed to be intact otherwise.
My question, really, is this: is there a way to power this other than with a replacement power supply. What I have available to me currently (as well as the machine itself) are:
- A black macbook
- Another G4 powerbook
- A firewire cable
- An old (white) ipod
- A Lacie firewire drive
- A newish ipod
- An iphone
- Nikon digital camera and its connections
- Various cables that came with all of the above
The options I've attempted so far are:
- Booting the affected powerbook in firewire target and charging it that way. (would not power up despite being connected to working powerbook via firewire)
- Attaching charged firewire drive or ipod and trying to power up. (Would not power up.)
- Connecting macbook-firewire drive-affected powerbook. (Daisychaining? Would not power up.)
To make matters more complicated, the affected powerbook has no working screen, but I was currently using a projector (via video-S) to see its output!
Any help would be very, very gratefully received - I suspect and hope there is a way to do this, but I just haven't been able to figure it out yet.
Thanks very much in advance for any help anybody can give,
Simon

You need a replacement power adapter for the machine. It will not accept incoming power from any area of the machine aside from the battery & the DC-in board (where the power adapter connects).
~Lyssa

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