William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Jim Mueller" wrote in
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Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my
mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she
didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in
her purse!

Including her little Kleenex packet?

And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this
wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse,
including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.)


Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went
to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The
sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in
the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken

"Ken" wrote in message
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William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Jim Mueller" wrote in
message ...

Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my
mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she
didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in
her purse!

Including her little Kleenex packet?

And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that
this
wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her
purse,
including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.)


Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went to
buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The sales
girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in the
fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken

That could be quite entertaining with a fully charged NiCd.

In article , Ken
wrote:

William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Jim Mueller" wrote in
message ...

Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my
mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she
didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in
her purse!

Including her little Kleenex packet?

And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that this
wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her purse,
including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.)


Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went
to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The
sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in
the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken

Putting it in the fridge sounds like a good idea, wrapping it in
"tinfoil" sounds like a bad idea, but fortunately tinfoil is not so
easily available.


Regards,

John Byrns

--
Surf my web pages at, http://fmamradios.com/

"Ken" wrote in message
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I once went to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack,
I only wanted one. The sales girl said to save one by wrapping
it in tinfoil and putting it in the fridge!!! Where in the world did
she get that?

Well, doesn't one same unneeded food by wrapping it in foil and sticking it
in the refrigerator?

Ignoring the fact that the foil would have shorted the cell... This is
actually a perfectly good idea if you can seal the cell in a moisture-proof
package (so it doesn't dry out in the refrigerator's low humidity).

That kinda reminds me of the old Lafayette store in Portland Oregon . We
used to go there when i was to young to know much about the stuff .
My brother would buy parts . I remember real long rows of counters with
shelves full behind them and neet stuff in the glass counters .

We still have a thriving small parts house here with resistors ,
capacitors , tons of NTE , pots , soldering iron tips , test leads ,
bulbs , wire and all the goodys .
I almost feel wrong going in there thinking it cant be true or i will
wake up with empty hands .

Ken wrote:
William Sommerwerck wrote:
"Jim Mueller" wrote in
message ...

Some people still have weird thoughts like that. This morning, my
mother's hearing aid battery went dead and she told me that she
didn't carry spares because they would magnetize everything in
her purse!

Including her little Kleenex packet?

And if you tried to put spare cells in her purse to prove to her that
this
wasn't so, she do everything possible to keep you from touching her
purse,
including even kicking and biting you. (I'm not kidding.)


Most people are disconnected from the modern technologies. I once went
to buy a watch battery. They came in a two pack, I only wanted one. The
sales girl said to save one by wrapping it in tinfoil and putting it in
the fridge!!! Where in the world did she get that? Ken
From the sales manager. It boosts sales, and has the same
turnover period as one battery.

I worked in a place similar to this 1976-1979, Norwest Electronics in
Livonia, Michigan. My old boss, Thaddeous Opalinsky just died recently,
aged 88 or so.

Wish I had some inside shots of it now. We had the best stock of parts
anywhere... full line of GC belts, idlers, etc, Sprague caps of all kinds,
Sylvania and International Servicemaster tubes (and some "old stock" stuff
too!), ECG transistors, Thordarson power, audio and TV transformers,
Centralab pots and switches. We also bought from a Chicago surplus house
called "Mid-America" that packaged stuff under the "Electronic Bargains"
brand, it was all kinds of production over-runs like Olson Electronics used
to sell. That was during the CB craze, also during the "Channel 20"
decoder craze in the Detroit area, where CH 20 was playing new and racy
movies but you had to have a decoder. I forget what that system was, but
guys would come in from the local factories where the decoder schematics
circulated like Super Bowl bidder cards. They were always so afraid to
reveal what they were building... that was funny. All us counter guys knew
of course.

I was already 4 years into restoring radios then... I had anything I needed
right at hand. Like today... after buying up over 15 repair shops!

Between me and Gary Schneider (www.oldradioparts.com ) pretty much
anything you need now for radio restoration (except unique cosmetic parts
like bezels) is still available, at mostly lower prices than it was in the
70's or earlier, if you refigure for inflation.

Mark Oppat
www.oldradioparts.net


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