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Originally Posted by Tractorfan
'...way back in the very early 70s. It uses two 996 lantern batteries in parallel, which I found difficult to afford back then. Apart from a replacement lamp or two, it's been faultless.'
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I had two of those. The first bought new, the second NOS from the same shop as I bought the Ever Ready rubber torch from. I converted it to lead-acid and fitted a charging socket and one of those wall-wart managed LA chargers. It lasted me years too.
Then I did a very silly thing... This was in the days before LED replacement lamps. I bought a 10W lamp from a bike shop, instead of the usual 2.5W (or whatever it was) and melted the reflector. D'oh!
