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Subject: Re: [OM] ...........Reprise What do you use old film containersfor?........
From: "John Hermanson" <omtech@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 09:02:58 -0400
Easy, replace battery yearly to avoid leakage.  Leakage is expected when old
batteries are used beyond a safe point.
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John Hermanson  www.zuiko.com
mail:  omtech@xxxxxxxxx
Camtech, Olympus Sales & Service since 1977
21 South Lane, Huntington NY 11743-4714
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew L Wendelborn" <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:55 AM
Subject: Re: [OM] ...........Reprise What do you use old film
containersfor?........


> At 8:46 AM -0400 2003.09.16, John Hermanson wrote:
> >I still hear from people who brag about getting 5-10 years out of a
mercury
> >1.35V battery.  What they don't notice is that that old battery is
sweating
> >a clear corrosive liquid that runs down the battery contact and oozes
into
> >the wire, which (eventually) takes it up to the meter circuit.
>
>
> Is it possible to tell by inspection if a battery is doing that?
>
> Do most old mercury batteries behave like this?
>
>
> thanks
>   Andrew
>



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