There are two things you could do.

1) Buy a small DC barrel female plug and open up the machine, splice it into
the power wires, drill a hole through it and mount it. After that you can
just plug the adaptor straight into the machine.

2. Get 4 D cells that are discharged. Solder a the positive wire from the
wall wart to the positive terminal of one of the batteries, the negative to
another battery, and the other two remaining batteries will simply be used
to hold everything in place. After that, I would just put some electrical
tape in between a battery-to-battery contact to avoid accidently recharging
the batteries.


"Joe Magiera" wrote in message
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So my wife gets my kids a battery operated device for Christmas. It's
some kind of slurpee making machine and a real battery eater. Goes
through 4 C cell batteries in about 4 cans of pop. I'm thinking, hey, I
can hack a 120VAC/6VDC converter that I have lying around up to it and
just have it run right from a wall outlet. Except I'd rather not hack and
ruin the battery connection terminals in the device. Does anyone have any
ideas or know of any parts that I can make a nice solid non-permanent
connection to standard battery connection terminals (and not ruin the
battery connection terminals in the process)? I'd really rather not make
a solder connection on this one, I'd like it to be able to run on
batteries again in the future without having to give it a major overhaul
to convert it back. Any help/advice appreciated. Thanks,

Joe (joemagiera at ameritech dot net)