Subj : Charger
To   : ED VANCE
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Thu Jun 23 2005 01:12 pm

ED VANCE wrote in a message to TOM WALKER:

 EV> They were about 2 1/2" round and about 6" tall with 2 Fahnstock
 EV> clips on the top of them to connect wires to.
 EV> I think some even had screw on connectors instead of the fahnstock
 EV> clips.

I think that's those #6 cells earlier referred to...

Hey,  I actually still *have* some fahnstock clips,  someplace.  :-)

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 EV> I remember my older brother getting a portable TUBED radio that had
 EV> a small RECHARGEABLE 67.5v battery in it. 

Now that's a new one on me,  I've never heard of one of those that was 
rechargeable...

 EV> It either used tubes with 1v or 3v filaments. 

Yeah,  the "3v" filament one was tapped,  they ran the two halves in parallel.

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 EV> That radio used small base tubes with 7 or 9 pins.

They were all 7-pin to the best of my recollection.

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