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Andy Burns wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
NiCd batteries shouldn't be on sale to "consumers"

Why not?

EU Directive 2006/66

I mamged to buy some from CPC at the end of last year to replace ones in
our village hall (19 year old) emergency lights. If I hadn't been able to,
I'd have had to replace 3 fittings and 4 matching non-emergency ones.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England
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