Where can I buy 1 AA battery?

Oh s*it! Still, most don't go into expensive gear.

tim.... expressed precisely :

Try a pound shop. 4x AA for £1.

tim.... expressed precisely :

..and that far back as well :-)

It happens that Bruce formulated :

No, that was called - preventing the customer bringing the lamp back for a refund, because it didn't work :-)

It happens that Jules formulated :

No - in those days they were packed in an open ended corrugated pack, with the contacts exposed. The modern box would mean your opening it to test it and re-packing it. Besides which they are so very cheap in comparison these days and so rare to find a dud. Who cares if one in a pack of ten happens to be a dud?

but aren't they like the ones on my local market stall.

they have an expiry date of next year instead of 2016 that the full priced ones have.

In message , tim.... writes

You have to look at it over the life of the battery which is more like

FFS - give me your address, I'll send you an AA battery for xmas

In message , tim.... writes

CPC - on offer today, 40 for a fiver

Three spatial dimensions, plus time?

I didn't think the boxes were sealed - maybe they are. I'd forgotten about those corrugated sleeves, though!

Yeah, there is that. But I was also thinking more generally, and whether most people would find someone wanting to test an item before handing it over a good thing or not. I suspect it'd just piss a lot of people off :-(

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying something like:

Blimey, are you Herman Goering?

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Graham." saying something like:

Still happens in small shops.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember NT saying something like:

Utter c*ck.

Well it wouldn't be easy in a supermarket, where I suspect most bulbs are purchased - each checkout would have to have a tester, with various sizes and types of lampholder; and all the checkout operators would have to be 'trained' how to test blubs... Think of the fun in a long queue...

:-)

Nah - he'd have sent Fliegerabwehrkanone.

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

Das wird AckAck sein

Gott in Himmel, you tricked me verdammmmt Englander [1]

In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes

How many batteries does that need then ?

Heh, I had one of those - finally died last year after a maths A level, a Further Maths A level and then a Maths degree (followed by 14 years of random use :)).

I had a very early one that had a firmware bug that meant the 3root button would display 2root - it would still perform a cube root, just the display was wrong.

I remember writing to Casio to moan and got a load of freebies (including a couple of sets of batteries :))

Darren

geoff wrote on 03/12/2009 :

What you going to do with the other 39?