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Re: OT: Button Batteries
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lugnet.robotics
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Wed, 4 Jun 2003 04:36:27 GMT
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I have about a dozen LR44-equivalents and another dozen LEDs I scavenged from
McDonalds Happy Meal toys. Not a bad price at about $1.00 each per battery, not
counting the food!
A small piece of advice--the toys are seriously toddler-proofed. I use a vice to
crush them. Gives me a very gratifying, if ephemeral, anti-consumerism sort of
feeling.
Doug Wilcox wrote:
> Do any of you folks know an inexpensive source for "button batteries" -
> those used in everything from watches to (increasingly) toys. It seems silly
> to spend $9 US on three batteries to replace the ones in my small R2-D2
> action figure, when the toy only cost $4.50 US at Wal*Mart.
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> Pardon the off-topic-ness, but this tends to be a mailing list whose members
> know *everything.*
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> Thanks.
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> --Doug Wilcox
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| Do any of you folks know an inexpensive source for "button batteries" - those used in everything from watches to (increasingly) toys. It seems silly to spend $9 US on three batteries to replace the ones in my small R2-D2 action figure, when the toy (...) (21 years ago, 3-Jun-03, to lugnet.robotics)
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