[Milsurplus] Battery Glue

[J. Forster]

Refrigerator or freezer, please?

-John

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> Older packs used hide glue, it is applied hot and cools and seals
> quickly. Fortunately, if it is chilled, it shatters. In rebuilding
> battery packs for Zenith TransOceanic radios, I chilled them in the
> refrigerator overnight, then used a dull table knife to open the flaps
> at the ends of the packs, using a rocking motion rather than a sawing
> one.  So far,  I have had good results. For PRC-10 or PRC-25 batteries,
> careful use of the dull steak knife is effective, but the glue used
> doesn't shatter and you have to proceed slowly with a careful sawing
> motion.
>
>      Bruce Gentry, KA2IVY
>
>
>
>
> On 8/8/13 9:11 PM, J. Forster wrote:
>> Until they were discontinued in the last decade or so, "dry" batteries
>> were a common source of a lot of voltages for portable gear.
>>
>> Generally, these were of two types: Stacks of pancake like cells of
>> zinc,
>> electrolyte, and carbon, or assemblies of AA or somilar cylindrical
>> cells.
>>
>> Either type were loaded into cardboard boxes, sometimes waxed, with a
>> cheap connector (socket) or flying leads of Fahnstock Clips or screw
>> terminals. Sometimes they were potted in tar.
>>
>> The military used such a battery, the BA-2, composed of 15 ea AA cells.
>> It
>> was used in the BC-221 and TG-5, among other places.
>>
>> Anyway, I have some of these and would like to open the boxes up and fit
>> 5
>> AA holders of 3 batteries into each.
>>
>> Question: Does anyone know what kind of glue was used to assemble the
>> boxes? I would like to be able to take the boxes apart without damage.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> -John
>>
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