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<mrdarrett@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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On Mar 19, 8:37 am, Spehro Pefhany <speffS...@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat>
wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:55:51 -0700 (PDT), a7yvm109gf...@netzero.com
> wrote:
>
>
>
> >On Mar 19, 12:47 am, z <gzuck...@snail-mail.net> wrote:
> >> On Mar 19, 12:24 am, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> > Speaking of fake cache SRAM in another post reminded me of this fake
> >> > electrolytic cap. Some might get a laugh out of 
> >> > it:http://www.alternatezone.com/images/FakeCap.jpg
>
> >> > One has to wonder though if the fakers got faked? What's inside the 
> >> > Rubycon
> >> > cap?
>
> >> > Dave.
>
> >> i remember when consumer reports tested rechargable batteries, like in
> >> the 70s, a zillion years before they got popular. except for Radio
> >> Shack rechargables, there wasn't any more capacity in the C or D sizes
> >> than the AA size; which was understandable when they autopsied them
> >> and found that the bigger ones were just AA batteries padded out to
> >> larger size. Except for Radio Shack rechargable batteries, oddly
> >> enough.
>
> >Radio Shack always had great batteries. Their gold alkaline cells were
> >outstanding, I have some 15 year old AAA cells that I use once in a
> >while, still good!
> >Same for their blue NiCads, held a charge like crazy, still work after
> >10 years.
>
> I can vaguely recally the Radio Shack "battery of the month" club.


Yes!  And each time my dad and I went there, we'd get another card,
until we had a nice little stack... pull a card that wasn't yet marked
for the month, and voila... free shiny red Realistic battery!

Michael

More than a few people took advantage of that ;-)

Dave.