Norm;
Are you saying those yellow wraps around those 18 volt packs is reused for shrink covering on those cells?
Thanks.
Tom
Yes Tom, That's what I'm saying (which makes me think how many of these wraps
were carelessly thrown away many ....including me)
Sorry about not answering this sooner....Yikes ...almost a week been busy with
some real yard cleaning over at my daughter's place.
.....and on this project....the biggest point about using these 'D' alkaline batteries
is that they replace the $little, $$$little AAA batteries even if you couldn't recharge
the D batteries.
.....and furthermore I've tried the recharging bit and discovered that you really have
to concentrate on this...from 1.7 volts each once it gets down to about 1.3 ....it's too
much and it just don't seem worth the effort....at least when you're pedal charging,
(unless you are more interested in keeping in shape than charging batteries).
(back to the yellow wrap reuse bit )
I used to take the 18 volt paks and carefully cut a nice straight cut
to unwrap these paks so I could reuse them.
Then I figured out how I could cut the top and bottom off and slip
the ends off like caps about an inch from the end.
Taking the middle section with the batteries still inside the tube....
I put it in the freezer....(outside in a snowbank in the winter, because
Barb didn't like those things in
Her refrigerator !
)
, for about an hour.. then wack it across the edge of (Barb's ) kitchen
counter.....(man....these people just don't seem to get a grasp on what is
really important !) anyways once the less bonded glue seperates from the
stack of cylinders... it falls out of the sleeve and I rearranged the cells
so they were all in the same direction....put them back in the sleeve...
and they kind of wedge back in line...reglue them together where they
stick out beyond the ends of the sleeve parallel the terminals on each
end and I had a 6 volt ...3.9 amp/hr battery....slip the caps that I had
cut off... and you could hardly tell the difference between it and the original.
So here are 4 of them with each having a 56 ohm resistor.....
each unit will last a lot longer probably.....than the 36 AAA
batteries that it replaces (12000 mA. (D)....1000mA. (AAA)).
So that's about a $1 for the 3 D batteries plus the time putting it together
....against about $9 worth of AAA batteries.
It's difficult to convey the enthusiasm I have for the conservation
potential this project.
Norm.