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>>It seems thatt he only batteries the 99 cent stores carry are the
>>zinc-carbon types. Cheap, too, something like four for 99 cents.
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Cheap carbon zinc (all made in China nowdays) invariably leak or swell up -- used or not. They have very thin casing.
I'd sorta hoped that that would turn out to be the case... thanks!
>I'll check out a few.
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>I've found a number of sites on the Internet which do sell the
>heavy-duty carbon/zinc variety. One place has Eveready AA cells at
>$0.15 (minimum order is 48).
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Heavy duty carbon zinc have somwhat better capacity than the cheap standard carbon zinc, and more importantly, are steel jacketed.
I'll have to stock up, one of these days.