Re: [OM] ...........Reprise What do you use old film containersfor?........

[Andrew L Wendelborn]

At 8:46 AM -0400 2003.09.16, John Hermanson wrote:
>I still hear from people who brag about getting 5-10 years out of a mercury
>1.35V battery.  What they don't notice is that that old battery is sweating
>a clear corrosive liquid that runs down the battery contact and oozes into
>the wire, which (eventually) takes it up to the meter circuit.


Is it possible to tell by inspection if a battery is doing that?

Do most old mercury batteries behave like this?


thanks
  Andrew


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