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Old 30th Oct 2013, 2:52 pm   #15
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Default Re: Remove those batteries when out of use!

Strangely though, I've removed long dead, I mean DECADES long dead batteries from ancient Avo's that have not leaked at all. The most surprising recently are 2 x Eveready 1289, 4.5 volt plastic cased with bar codes so within the last 20 years or so old, another 1289 but REALLY old, with paper and card case at least 50 years old, and a No.11 1.5v cell, tall, square column shape, wax paper case, dated March 1970!! All totally leak free! Also have a handfull of B121's and B122's dead but in leak free condition. One is marked GPO No.27 made 6/73! Yet I've had a number of top brand Alkaline cells leak like they were designed to, over the last 2 or 3 years.
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