by ffkiwi » Fri May 14, 2004 10:55 pm
When I was an impoverished junior in the late 50's and early 70's flying C/L in the Dunedin club (NZ) several of us used to use the big 1.5V telephone batteries in parrallel for glow starting. Four of them fitted nicely in a four bottle wooden milk bottle carrier, which just about every NZ male would have made in school woodwork classes in those days. In parallel, they seemed to last for years-and you never burnt out Cox heads with them either-unlike our forays into 2V wet cells.
I was doubly fortunate, as my best friend's father worked for what was in those days, the 'P&T'-Post and Telegraph department and through him we had access to a limitless supply of 'used but still good' 1.5V cells.
sadly, 'bell batteries', milk bottles and the P&T department have all gone the way of the dodo..........