Subj : Charger To : LAIRD KELLY From : Roy J. Tellason Date : Wed Jun 22 2005 01:06 pm LAIRD KELLY wrote in a message to TOM WALKER: -=>/Huh!/ Bad Re: Charger! What'cha gon', what'cha gon', LK> what'cha gonna do when TOM WALKER and LAIRD KELLY come for you?<=- TW> Let me make MYSELF clearer. I am lookiong for the Source of the Term TW> "B" battery. IF there is NO listing for it Why are you using it. What TW> is ytuor reaso nor source ror yusing the term "B" LK> Actually, the flashlight I mentioned is specified as using three LK> "B" cells in the model from 1917 and a couple of years later was LK> using an Eveready #703 battery containing the same three cells LK> and there is this description at LK> : LK> "The dry cell B battery is long and thin, similar in shape to AAA LK> and AA batteries, but noticeably larger. They are as tall as a LK> standard D-cell battery. They're still available (but getting LK> increasingly difficult to find) in Europe, where they're used to LK> power a few obscure models of bicycle lamps." Just to further confuse things, I have a meter here that takes four "AF" cells (nicads). They look like fat AA cells or something. Slightly smaller in diameter than a C cell, a bit longer than a AA (I'm not going to open it up to measure exactly). --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-838-8539 (1:270/615) .