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As the world turns...

Does anyone remember the "9v smoke detector battery" as a "9v transistor radio battery"? When I was in high school I had a radio that used one, and a pair of Lafayette Radio lead-acid rechargeable batteries to run the radio. The interesting one, though, was the little red Regency radio that looked like a $6 cheapie, but wasn't. It ran on a 22 1/2 volt "b" battery for tube type hearing aids. The main give-away that it wasn't what it seemed was that the leather carrying case was the same gauge leather as the Carhartt belt holding my pants up. The other give-away was that if you opened it up and looked at the date code on the Radiart tuning capacitor (they're the ones with R/C 273 stamped on them) it was for 1953, 6 years after the first prototype, point contact transistor was made at Bell Labs. The closest I could find to the original battery was a 15 volt photoflash battery.

73

Jim W4JED