{"id":4691,"date":"2009-08-28T11:03:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=4691"},"modified":"2009-08-28T11:03:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-28T15:03:02","slug":"slightly-past-the-use-by-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/28\/slightly-past-the-use-by-date\/","title":{"rendered":"slightly past the use-by date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just changed the batteries in my Mini Maglite. Check the battery date:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4692\" title=\"duracell install by jan 99\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0387.jpg\" alt=\"duracell install by jan 99\" width=\"640\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0387.jpg 640w, https:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/IMG_0387-300x116.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>I bought the batteries (and the torch) in an outdoor store in Truro, Cornwall in July 1993. I needed it to stop and start wind turbines at Carland Cross at night. The batteries still worked, if a little weakly. There are people <em>driving<\/em> younger than these batteries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the batteries was, like Mr Belpit&#8217;s legs, a bit swollen with age. After several fruitless attempts involving rare-earth magnets and superglue, I took off the lens, bulb (well, LEDs)\u00c2\u00a0 and tail cap, and smacked it sharply against the floor. I could then lever the battery out with a sweetcorn skewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just changed the batteries in my Mini Maglite. Check the battery date: I bought the batteries (and the torch) in an outdoor store in Truro, Cornwall in July 1993. I needed it to stop and start wind turbines at Carland Cross at night. The batteries still worked, if a little weakly. There are people driving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[1622,1623,59],"class_list":["post-4691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","tag-duracell","tag-maglite","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-1dF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4691"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4694,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4691\/revisions\/4694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}