[Thursday] Repro batteries

[Randall Snow]

 Oh my god, it's Robert Loggia! <https://youtu.be/Qm7bgcRVhQ0>  He's
everywhere!  Wait..... different guy?

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 10:59 PM Chris Prata via Thursday <
thursday at newsm.org> wrote:

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> OK, follow me here...
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> Here's how it works when one has "The Affliction":
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> At Mystic Engine Show I was able to purchase a brass Perko Battery Powered
> anchor light with beehive glass lens.  It takes the old big 1.5 volt No. 6
> "Ignitor battery" that was also used in so many old farm radios.  (As well
> as by us nerds in the middle school rocket club).
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> They dont make those batteries any more but a few people make replicas
> stuffed with a couple D cell's connected in parallel. I read that modern
> alkaline d cells at 18 watt hours (max) each exceed the duration of the old
> carbon batteries anyway.
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> Never one to let others do really well what I can do myself fairly well
> (usually after many tries), I started looking for the labels to print,
> since making the cylinder and end caps and terminals is pretty easy.
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> I stumbled upon Robert Lozier KD4HSH and he has done a remarkable job
> making working early dry cell battery replicas. In particular, he has
> replicated the labels and made them available in PDF. For the No. 6 and
> other cylindricals, he even made a rotisserie hi res scanner, so flat
> labels can be printed on a color printer to glue around a battery.
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> Here is his page (below), and it has lots of links to battery reproduction
> resources, and downloadable labels for a number of old square and round dry
> cells from the era we exhibit in NEWSM.
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> Now we have some ideas for powering working exhibits that need 1.5v dry
> cell or cells in parallel or series, which can use inexpensive d cells
> inside a believable exterior.
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> This is another task we can perform in our upcoming workshop...
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> Check out his work here:
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> https://kd4hsh.homestead.com/
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