wrote: On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 at
11:59:02 AM UTC-4, Cydrome Leader wrote: The last duracell battery
leakage claim I filed resulted in getting a prepaid credit card. Had to
get an all new flashlight, but it worked out in the end. Not sure how
they deal with more expensive stuff like test equipment. My wife
once upon a time collected Fiesta Ware pottery. As you (should) know, back
in the day that Fiesta first started, many of the glazes used radioactive
salts for certain colors including orange, green and a few others. So, I
acquired a geiger counter, military surplus, for checking that
possibility. Not that the stuff was passively harmful, just that one would
not wish to serve food in those pieces that were radioactive. Well, the
(Eveready) batteries leaked. I sent it off to Eveready, and about a week
later, received a check for $357.32 (I DO remember that number), which
represented the cost of that unit when new plus the cost of my shipping
the item to them. That, along with a very nice note suggesting that
batteries should be removed from expensive test equipment when it is not
in use to avoid inconvenience. I went back to the same source I got the
first counter, and replaced it with a Navy surplus device for $75,
including shipping. I gave that to my son-in-law, as he and his dad
collect items that involve glazes and glass, and I now have a Civil
Defense kit including scintillators and several other testers that I
purchased NIB at a municipal "yard sale" for $25. Works nicely. I now
also remove batteries from my "good" stuff if it is going down for more
than a week or so.




That's a good practice. They only leak when you don't expect it. Then
there are always the batteries that are good for a decade past the "good
until" date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)

Didn't know red was the radioactive color. I do like that green-ish
radioactive glass from the era of uranium based home products.