At 8/31/2007 04:18 PM -0700, Marc St. Martin wrote:
>Hello Listmembers,
>
>I'm looking for some information regarding a "Wonder" rear bike
>light. Looks like a little flashlight with a red lens cover which
>fastens to the left rear dropout of a randonneur bike; e.g., Singer,
>Herse, etc. I won one of these on the 'Bay, but I can't locate a
>battery for it. It looked initially like it would accommodate 2
>Size-C batteries, but the battery case is slightly too small in
>circumference to handle Cs. If there was a Size-B battery, it would
>probably fit :^) Perhaps maybe our European counterparts might be
>able to point me in the right direction. Any masters of battery
>esoterica out there?
I had a similar, but non bike related, situation and made a plastic sleeve with the correct ID to hold AA batteries. Modern NiMH 2500 mAh AAs have more juice in them than Cs in the 50s.
Mark Stonich;
BikeSmith Design & Fabrication
5349 Elliot Ave S. - Minneapolis. MN 55417
Ph. (612) 824-2372 http://bikesmithdesign.com
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