Battery Trick

[getsome]

A friend just sent me an email with a short video showing something I didn't know before...AA batteries are expensive even when bought in volume and we go through lots of them...The video showed that if you buy a 6 volt lantern battery for a big flashlight and peel off the label then take a flat head screwdriver and pry off the top which may take a little effort but when it pops off you cut the wires and turn it upside down and what comes out but 32 AA no label batteries so for 4 bucks or so that a 6 volt lantern battery costs and a little work you can get a whole bunch of super cheap AA batteries....

Anybody ever heard of doing this?...This post was sent while I was thinking about cleaning my PM40 later tonight...:rolleyes:

[Bawanna]

You weren't one of them fellas that blew a lot of stuff up when you were a little kid were you. I can almost visualize your work bench full of wire and cap gun caps, and combustibles all over the place.

I recognize the signs cause I were one too.

For the record I did not know this about 6volt lantern batteries but you just gotta know that I'll know before long.

[knkali]

here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIf_ZhZSPVw&feature=related

[getsome]

I know nothing, NOTHING about anything NOOOOOOTHING....:cool:

[getsome]

Well dang, after watching those other videos it seems I got spoofed...I thought everything you see on the internet is true....It is isn't it????...:p

[jeepster09]

My wife goes through a lot of batteries......hmm.:ohmy:
Maybe she will save some money :wof:

[MW surveyor]

I can tell you that if you take apart one of those 9 volt batteries that the individual batteries in them are AAAA size! This size goes in my hearing aid controller and are very hard to find in a lot of places (think overseas and even here in the US). Can't remember who told me but he was right.

[JFootin]

here you go:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIf_ZhZSPVw&feature=related

I didn't see any AA batteries. Plus, the batteries had obviously been taped back together. Just an Internet scam.

[gm412]

Am I missing something? I thought I saw 4 D batteries.

[Bawanna]

The link was to the wrong battery, but the AA one was listed on the same menu.

All hocus pocus anyhow.

[getsome]

I wonder how many fools get hurt really bad because of something they see on youtube and try and do it better themselves and one up the video...After watching some of those other videos it would be a miracle if some of those guys didnt slice off a couple of digits using a razor box cutter to try and cut the hard plastic off the top...In a couple the guys were using a screwdriver to try and pry the top off while holding the battery in the other hand, one slip and it's Luca Brasi time with a hand stabbed to the workbench and one dumb ars was breaking the hard plastic with a pair of pliers with no eye protection and pieces of plastic shrapnel flying all over the place...

Maybe they should change the web site name to Darwintube...

[ltxi]

A friend just sent me an email with a short video showing something I didn't know before...AA batteries are expensive even when bought in volume and we go through lots of them...The video showed that if you buy a 6 volt lantern battery for a big flashlight and peel off the label then take a flat head screwdriver and pry off the top which may take a little effort but when it pops off you cut the wires and turn it upside down and what comes out but 32 AA no label batteries so for 4 bucks or so that a 6 volt lantern battery costs and a little work you can get a whole bunch of super cheap AA batteries....

Anybody ever heard of doing this?...This post was sent while I was thinking about cleaning my PM40 later tonight...:rolleyes:


Next you'll be telling us you reload ammunition to save money.

[melissa5]

Next you'll be telling us you reload ammunition to save money.

Bwahaha!

[kb2wji]

Methinks this may have been started by someone that works for a financially struggling 6v battery factory.

[CJB]

Am I missing something? I thought I saw 4 D batteries.

I've personally taken 6v batteries apart, and they did in fact contain 4 D cells.

[steve666]

Well dang, after watching those other videos it seems I got spoofed...I thought everything you see on the internet is true....It is isn't it????...:p

Is your date a French model???

[getsome]

Nope, I'm dating your wife...:19:

[Bawanna]

You guys ran off and lost me again.:confused:

Reminds me of taking the girl (not Mrs. Getsome) up to put out or get out hill, she did neither and made me drive her home. I'm such a wus.

[340pd]

"The problem with quotes on the internet is you cannot verify their authenticity." - Abraham Lincoln

[Double3]

Welcome to the internet.

[JimBianchi]

I got duped and did this.

Not AA, but D batteries in the Rayovac 6v I bought last year.

[ltxi]

You guys ran off and lost me again.:confused:

Reminds me of taking the girl (not Mrs. Getsome) up to put out or get out hill, she did neither and made me drive her home. I'm such a wus.

Getting old will do that to a guy sometimes. :cool:

[downtownv]

:DAfter the stitches required due to the sharp metal edges..... I decided to just buy the 32 AA's and the 8 D's! It'll be t cheaper that the Doctor bill

[wyntrout]

There are all kinds of spoofs for stuff like that out there... people who get off by posting BS videos and pictures, etc!

Wynn:)

[Scoundrel]

Let's not forget the guys who do YouTube videos of defeating car locks with toilet plungers, magnets, etc. What you don't see is the guy outside the frame of the video pushing the buttons on the remote.

My friends and I have considered doing a YouTube sham video, but have not yet thought up a topic for it that would be both believable and sensational enough to go viral.