[Milsurplus] Re: 417 Battery

J. Forster jfor at quik.com
Wed Oct 5 11:45:30 EDT 2005


If the battery is discontinued, you might be able to make a replacement as
follows:

Home Depot (and others) sell small, cylindrical batteries, typically 9, 12, 15,
or 22 volts that are made up of little button cells, used for remote controls
etc.. If you remove the jacket, the cells are loose. Stack up as many as you need
in a piece of HS tubing and you have a battery of an desired voltage.

FWIW,
-John


WA5CAB at cs.com wrote:

> Mac, Mike, et al,
>
> That the 417 was discontinued because it was a mercury oxide cell appears to
> be urban legend.  Period catalogs plus at least one on-line replacement guide
> say carbon-zinc.  One list member who responded to my cry for help said that
> the cells used in the stack in the 417 were only used on a couple of other
> batteries, and that they were discontinued because of low usage.  Which
> discontinued the batteries using them of course.





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