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Old 16th Jan 2012, 1:08 am   #10
michael cumming
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Default Re: Sourcing batteries/cells thought to be obsolete.

Nice work Darren Sadly I don't have many early battery guides just the 1980s ones an a copied 1948 one. I can recall a few sizes of that scanned page, the square 1215 or No 15. they were used in those wooden lamps, easy to make up to, again three U2s inside. I wonder if folk in the old days took batteries apart to obtain single cells if they needed lots of them?

Early hearing aids only use their make which were probably more expensive so I wonder if folk just used the same size cell and voltage but not their make? I'm thinking this may well not be a new thing that we are doing now as folk probably did this years ago but back then there were so many sizes of cells. Even I have never seen some on that scan posted, a triangle battery.

Back on thread though I feel there should be included along with the info some battery scans if possible for many electrical items as I notice there is a household electrical section too on here and I guess that would include hand lamps, deaf aids etc.
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