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Originally Posted by Bill Cahill
I pulled mine down, which I haven't had open in years.
You'll never believe this!
Mine has an original 9 volt battery plugged in, dead as a door nail!
It had leaked, and, other battery clips are ruinned, as are their mounting studs in case.
Bill Cahill
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I think this should serve as a "heads up" to those of us that collect battery portables. Today, after reading that post, I started a "back off" inspection of the radios in my transistor set collection, and have already found 2 with batteries left inside.
Only one had leaked slightly, and no real damage was done.
Tomorrow, I will go through the tube portables...who knows what I will discover there.
I like to keep batteries in a few good players for demo purposes, I guess that it would be a good idea to clearly mark these sets, so that they get a regular turn on or inspection.
jr
Update: Finished the "display" transistor set audit...found 3 more radios loaded with batteries that should not have been... all leaking, but a fairly easy clean up. I had to re-attach a wire to one contact (the wire had been eaten away) and it was was
very difficult to tin the wire and solder it. Put
fresh batteries in
one radio for demo purposes.
