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...what if you took an old button top and an new flat top and took them apart and re-wrapped with the button top replacing the flat top ?

Or a thin wafer doohickey with a diameter the same size as the battery with a button center - an 'extension' of sorts...
A while back I asked the same thing Classy and @ENAUD was it you that discouraged that as being unsafe? Or maybe it was @Baditude.
 

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A final word on the battery "store vs rotate" thing. I contacted Mooch through Patreon and here's his answer:

"Using a battery ages it faster then letting it sit but it still ages just sitting there. They’re just not made for storage. I recommend rotating through all the ones you have ad that minimizes usage aging but keeps them from just wasting away in storage."

KD method as well, Geek darling.


18350 button tops

:lol: classie!!!!!!

Found out this morning at the vet that my Mason dog, 7 years old in September, will have to be neutered next week and a tumor removed. I think the best I can hope for right now is that doc gets good margins and after surgery, the tissue comes back benign. Maybe why I wasn't focused on cooking. Oh well, at least it was still good :)

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I don't blame you - at all. If you run out of options, I like the idea of a o ring. Don't forget No-Ox for the threads.

I No-Ox'd today! I feel SO grown up!!!!! :banana:
 

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A while back I asked the same thing Classy and @ENAUD was it you that discouraged that as being unsafe? Or maybe it was @Baditude.
i wouldn't recommend recycling button tops from old cells. They are spot welded on and require using a knife to remove them, as for using a button shaped conductor, say, held by a plastic or tag board ring, sure they would do the trick, but again i cannot recommend this, as the last time I shared how to use flat top batteries with an adapter, someone fried the board on their beloved ProVari :(
 

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Ok, once and for all, for my notes. What are the button top 18350, 18490 and 18650 batteries y'all have come up with that won't leave a gap in the Mini and Regular V2's and V2.5's, with/without extended cap?
aw batteries...
 

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Ok, once and for all, for my notes. What are the button top 18350, 18490 and 18650 batteries y'all have come up with that won't leave a gap in the Mini and Regular V2's and V2.5's, with/without extended cap?

Efest red and purple both fit in all three sizes. All the ones we've gotten are pretty much identical in height to our AW's.
 

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Well, all the satin's have no added coating -- so in a sense they are raw -- just polished in a muted pattern, of sorts.

I'm not sure what (if anything) was added to the Dragon and Polished -- but they could be "raw" but finished/polished to shine. :)
 

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....Matter of fact, if I was going to a deserted island for the rest of my short life and I could take only one album to listen to,......
I haven't been in here for a while but whilst catching up, this sentence pricked my memory.
There is a very long running BBC radio programme called "Desert Island Discs" in which they invite notable personages to tell of eight favourite pieces of music, which they play, interspersed with conversation.
One guest was the 83 year old Professor Sir Richard Doll who was one of two epidemiologists who as a young man first published proof of the correlation between smoking tobacco and lung cancer (circa 1953?). On this radio show in 2001 he upset many by saying "The effects of other people smoking in my presence is so small it doesn't worry me.”
More about this story here and about the man here.
 
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I haven't been in here for a while but whilst catching up, this sentence pricked my memory.
There is a very long running BBC radio programme called "Desert Island Discs" in which they invite notable personages to tell of eight favourite pieces of music, which they play, interspersed with conversation.
One guest was the 83 year old Professor Sir Richard Doll who was one of two epidemiologists who as a young man first published proof of the correlation between smoking tobacco and lung cancer (circa 1953?). On this radio show in 2001 he upset many by saying "The effects of other people smoking in my presence is so small it doesn't worry me.”
More about this story here and about the man here.
Yeah, well, my Grandmother smoked since she was 14 and up to 3 packs a day when quit at 80 years old. My Grandfather was married to her for over 65 years. They both died at 91 years of age.
 

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