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On Dec 2, 9:57*pm, geoff wrote:
In message , mogga
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On Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:12:29 -0000, "tim...."
wrote:

My radio controlled clock has stopped working.

It takes a single AA battery, all the ususal suspects in my house now uses
triple As, so where can I buy a single AA battery?

All I can find is packs of 4 (actually as they are a BOGOF, in packs of 8)
and all I can use is one! *Even with a shelf date of 2016 I won't get
through them before they die (though experience tells me that the dates are
optimistic).

How environmentally friendly is it to insist that I buy 4 to throw three
away?

(Just out of interest, as there are packs of 20/40 available, what devices
do still use these batteries?)

tim

Poundshop. It'll wear out so quick you'll need the others.

Bought some POundshop C cells for a change sorter - they leaked
electrolyte all over the battery compartment

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geoff

Alkaline or zinc carbon/chloride?


Zinc/carbon IIRC


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geoff