Batteries.

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hyperD replied

5 March 2010, 11:32
Originally posted by DaveB View Post

Mildly NSFW

Forget batteries, you want steam power and a couple of strapping stokers.

MrsB swears by it.

Wow! I'm sure the sweat that thing generates will contain a mixture of passion and fear.
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Halo Jones replied

5 March 2010, 11:03
Originally posted by chef View Post

try using a light that plugs into the wall rather than running off batteries..

that is what you're referring to isn't it?

Of course
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chef replied

5 March 2010, 11:00
Originally posted by Halo Jones View Post

Batteries never seem to last long enough for me, I seem to be replacing them nightly.

try using a light that plugs into the wall rather than running off batteries..

that is what you're referring to isn't it?
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Halo Jones replied

5 March 2010, 10:58
Originally posted by Xenophon View Post

[insert obligatory juvenile comment]

Well it was kind of expected
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Xenophon replied

5 March 2010, 10:57
Originally posted by Halo Jones View Post

Batteries never seem to last long enough for me, I seem to be replacing them nightly.

[insert obligatory juvenile comment]
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DaveB replied

5 March 2010, 10:55
Originally posted by Halo Jones View Post

Batteries never seem to last long enough for me, I seem to be replacing them nightly.

Mildly NSFW

Forget batteries, you want steam power and a couple of strapping stokers.

MrsB swears by it.
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Halo Jones replied

5 March 2010, 10:05
Batteries never seem to last long enough for me, I seem to be replacing them nightly.
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TimberWolf replied

5 March 2010, 09:52
The battery from my favourite calculator that I used in school is still original.

However the lead acid battery in my old car goes flat in about 2 weeks.
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zeitghost started a topic Batteries.

5 March 2010, 09:48
Batteries.

Guess wot happens when you leave batteries in stuff for 20 years.

Amazingly enough, only one out 5 Thandar counter/timers thingies is a write off coz of battery leakage.

But that one was a real goodie, I don't know what that yellow gunge is*, but I'm not touching it without gloves on.

But a set of Vart C cells with a best before of March 1989 are still going strong giving roughly an amp on short circuit.

All the duracell ones were either leaking or flat as the proverbial pancake**.

*probably potassium hydroxide.

** best before June 1993.
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