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Old 9th Apr 2007, 6:54 pm   #1
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Default Replica U12 battery

Ok, I know I've gone totally mad, but just in case anybody else want to turn their modern AA batteries into something that looks more vintage, then, I've attached a couple of pictures for you

Just make sure the image is the right size before printing (I've written it on the side)

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Old 9th Apr 2007, 7:39 pm   #2
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Default Re: Replica U12 battery

Wasn't what is nowadays known as an AA once designated U7 ?
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Old 9th Apr 2007, 8:56 pm   #3
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Hi Darren,

So much of my youth was mis-spent with batteries that I'm pretty sure on this one... the U7/SP7 are now known (by most people anyway ) as C cells, while the unsealed version of the modern AA had in my day acquired the cumbersome designation of U12/D14. To complete the list of familiar types, the D cell was the U2, while the AAA was the U16.

Nice cover, David: I may just print a few of those for a little Philips radio from about 1960 that uses the things. Not worth it for the cordless mouse

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Old 9th Apr 2007, 8:59 pm   #4
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Default Re: Replica U12 battery

I seem to remember AA, C and D were SP7. SP11 and SP2 (or HPX for the zinc chloride types) respectively, but could be wrong.
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Old 9th Apr 2007, 9:03 pm   #5
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I'm 99% certain the AA was the U7/HP7 and the C was once the U11/HP11 .

Maybe a new thread elsewhere would be appropriate on this subject ?
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Old 9th Apr 2007, 9:08 pm   #6
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Ah... yes, my memory is indeed going! Sorry about that,folks. Now that I've kicked it, yes, the AA was indeed SP7 and HP7, but a tad anomalously U12/D14 in its basic unsealed form. So presumably a simple U12 earlier, and never U7 so far as I know. And, yes, C cells were U11, SP11 and HP11...

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Old 11th Apr 2007, 8:42 am   #7
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I found this version of the U12 in a very old novelty torch at the dump years ago. AA/HP7.
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Old 11th Apr 2007, 9:10 am   #8
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Ooh... I don't suppose you'd like to soak that label off and scan it for me .

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Old 11th Apr 2007, 1:07 pm   #9
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Hello Dave,
The label is hanging off anyway due to being so dry. If you PM me with your address I can forward it to scan at your leisure and return.
Regards John.
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In the 1966/7 Ever Ready catalogue there are:

D size: U2, LPU2 (the designation SP2 had presumably not yet been used) and HP2
C size: U11, LPU11, HP11
AA size: HP7 and U12/D14. Note the dual designation. It's also interesting that the HP7 is listed twice, once in High Power Batteries and again in General Purpose.
AAA size: U16, HP16
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Old 11th Apr 2007, 2:38 pm   #11
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Yes: we may just have been imagining the SP7, I don't recall meeting a sealed version at all, or perhaps there was one rather later. The little hoard of defunct cells here includes a few LPU2s, a couple of U2s and a set of five SP11s found not so long ago in an early cassette recorder. I think John's U12 cell must be from the very early 60s or before, as all those I did things with in infancy were U12/D14s

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Old 17th Apr 2007, 6:41 pm   #12
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I've attached another U12 cover that I've made from John's (Heatercathodeshort) battery

I think this is a later version than the first one

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Brilliant work Dave! Such a lot of work for such a tiny label.
Regards John.
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Very sharp. Sorry about my absence--I managed to deepsix the hard drive that had all of my battery covers on it.

Fortunately I was able to recover 9/10's of them. But it took over a week and many hours each day to back everything up.
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