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Old 6th Nov 2020, 2:21 pm   #33
Welsh Anorak
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Default Re: Ridiculous thoughts and ideas from a young age

Like many, I learned basics form a Ladybird book. I carefully built a project motor from cotton reels and so on as I'm sure many of us did. Then to power it, you used "a 4.5v flat battery". Odd, but I found one in an old torch. The motor didn't work. It took my patient father to explain 'flat' was the shape, not the state of charge! A new battery and round it went...
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