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[OM] Re: A miracle!! Louie is well!

Subject: [OM] Re: A miracle!! Louie is well!
From: "Earl Dunbar" <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:43:47 -0500
Oooh, I bought a bunch from Twin Cities and am just storing them in a desk 
drawer at ambient room temps.  Maybe that is a lucky choice?  Or maybe the TC 
supply "deal" isn't such a deal afterall?

But am glad Louie is well.  "You're lookin' sweel, Lou-ISSSSSSSSS, I can tell, 
Lou-ISSSSSSSSS...."

Earl

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On 11/23/2004 at 8:40 PM hiwayman@xxxxxxx wrote:

>Louie wasn't sick after all.  He was only suffering from dumb owner
>syndrome.
>
>I had a bunch of bad Bunny 357s!  After two rolls of Kodachrome today, the
>champagne OM-4Ti locked up, wanting new batteries.  Not a big surprise,
>since it's probably been close to two years since it had new ones.  But
>new batteries didn't work.  Battery check said "no, no."  I tried two
>more.  Same story.
>
>These were batteries I got a couple of years ago from Twin Cities and had
>stored in the fridge with the film.  I took out a couple of strips of five
>when we went to Destin, Fla., back in September.  Now, for some reason,
>they're all dead.  Must be the Florida air.  A couple from an equally-old
>strip of five right out of the fridge and warmed for 10 minutes or so in
>my pants pocket while I stomped around the house and raved and ranted
>about all things electronic solved the problem and the champagne one was
>happy once again.
>
>Then the little bulb above my head came on and I went to fetch Louie from
>the box I had plopped him in in anticipation of packing him up in order to
>send him off to John.  New and GOOD batteries did the trick!  He's back to
>his old self.
>
>These things apparently don't have much of a shelf life.  Is it possible
>that refrigerating them might not be a good idea?
>
>Walt   
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from 
>the car just isn't photogenic." -- 
>Edward Weston
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