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Old 14th Jun 2019, 7:19 pm   #11
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Default Re: Alkaline Dry Cells Outer Tube Is Positive

As Techman points out the (shrunk on?) insulation is generally 'wafer' thin, a trap for the unwary. I recently had to sleeve a well made homebrew D holder to accept a C cell- to avoid this sort of incident.

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