Bargain of the week

[telectrix]

00000000000000AVO Model 8, (1970) Mint condition, just needs a 15v battery, calibration sticker 1986. just bought it from car boot for £10. been looking for one for ages.


btw, anyone know where i can get a 15v BLR121 battery?

 

[RWJ]

00000000000000AVO Model 8, (1970) Mint condition, just needs a 15v battery, calibration sticker 1986. just bought it from car boot for £10. been looking for one for ages.


btw, anyone know where i can get a 15v BLR121 battery?

Nice!!

I don't think you can get the 15v Bats anymore but I'm sure there's a "how to" make "one" (or similar) on the web somewhere.. But typical of me I can't remember where.

 

[telectrix]

they on ebay £8.95 to £10.95. just searched.

 

[RWJ]

they on ebay £8.95 to £10.95. just searched.

I stand corrected! Obviously something else I was thinking about!!

 

[High Tower]

10x AA's tape them together, bobs your uncle

 

[telectrix]

10x AA's tape them together, bobs your uncle

after being bashed with a lump hammer to fit in the available space, don't think they'd be much good.

 

[High Tower]

Always a bloody pesamist!!

 

[telectrix]

just coz.yuo got your 2382...........................

 

[trypod]

15V Battery BLR121

• Small high voltage, high capacity alkaline battery
• Ideal for use in test meters and photographic equipment, etc.
• Dimensions: 27 x 16 x 37mm

FM07H

 

[RWJ]

15V Battery BLR121

• Small high voltage, high capacity alkaline battery
• Ideal for use in test meters and photographic equipment, etc.
• Dimensions: 27 x 16 x 37mm

FM07H

"keyfob" battery apparently

 

[telectrix]

cheers to both 4 that. working not far from a mappies tomorrow. will call in.

 

[SPARTYKUS]

cheers to both 4 that. working not far from a mappies tomorrow. will call in.

I'm never far from Nappies

 

[malcolmsanford]

00000000000000AVO Model 8, (1970) Mint condition, just needs a 15v battery, calibration sticker 1986. just bought it from car boot for £10. been looking for one for ages.


btw, anyone know where i can get a 15v BLR121 battery?

I know I'm going to regret this, and there is a little man on each shoulder one saying do it do it...................while the other is saying don't don't ....................but the do it as always wins ....................

Ok Tel why? .............in do you want an old AVO 8

 

[Bradzz]

Same testers that we used in college, quite good, we was using them to find out voltage to amps in circuits on soduim lamps and halide also irons. mad its all good. they had loads of them.

 

[telectrix]

I know I'm going to regret this, and there is a little man on each shoulder one saying do it do it...................while the other is saying don't don't ....................but the do it as always wins ....................

Ok Tel why? .............in do you want an old AVO 8

because when the meter says there's volts there, i know that there are volts there, and the meter is not picking up the potential difference of my sweaty socks. apart from that. it'll be a mate for my model 7.

 

[malcolmsanford]

avo8

There you go mate ................... I'm sure you have googled this but love the Heath Robinson battery replacement section.

 

[rocker]

Lovely bit of kit.... mind you I'd rather carry a modern MFT to the top of a tenement building than this and an old megger lump in their 'satchels'.....

 

[RWJ]

avo8

There you go mate ................... I'm sure you have googled this but love the Heath Robinson battery replacement section.

That was the site I was on about a few posts back!

 

[malcolmsanford]

Nice!!

I don't think you can get the 15v Bats anymore but I'm sure there's a "how to" make "one" (or similar) on the web somewhere.. But typical of me I can't remember where.

That was the site I was on about a few posts back!

Have to be honest I did google when I read your post and that was about the 3rd site I came across and loved the battery replacement idea, that would suit Tel down to the ground ................

 

[telectrix]

was toying with the idea of 2 PP3's in seies with a zener diode to limit to 15v.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

BLR121 is a modern replacement for the original B121. BLR121 has been constructed from number of button cells in series, whereas the old B121 was a manganese/carbon pile construction similar to the more familiar PPx series of 'radio batteries'. The only down side to this is the capacity of the replacement is lower than the original and hence it will need replacing more often.

 

[simpson93]

been going to afew car boot sales recently quite supprised with the amount of tools ive been seeing, thinking of picking up afew drills next week.

 

[rocker]

The thing about buying more modern power tools etc at boot sales is they can be nicked.

 

[MarkieSparkie]

Adding to "Rocker" comment... and faked, not always as unconvincing as the "Bosch" copies labeled 'Boschmann' that were doing the rounds a few years ago.