Re: Amazing D cell discovery!
Well, I've just got the old battery portable TV out from down the side of the bench and the first thing I did after removing all the dust from it was to switch it on as shown in the first picture below. There's only a raster now since the 'switch-off'. I used to use this in the caravan until the 'switch off', but it was mainly run on the external 12 volt supply. It was sometimes used outside on batteries and has only ever had these 'D' cells shown below, fitted. The cells don't seem to be leaking, although they had a very slight 'tacky' feel to them when first removed, but they are housed in tight plastic tubes that are then fitted into the battery compartment, except one that's at the very bottom which didn't feel 'tacky'.
As can be seen, the 'best before' date is January 2001. The sticker with the February 1997 date is the local auction lot number sticker from when I bought the set - the batteries probably date from then. I seem to remember that these industrial Rayovac cells were incredibly good in their time and I also seem to think that this TV/radio/tape unit uses not far off an amp when on TV.
So is this a winner so far with still working alkaline 'D' cells probably having an actual manufacturing date of around 1997?
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