@Buco posted:Yeh Gunrunner......but I'm a Scot, and I have to "penny-pinch". Can't afford those battery connectors, especially when I already have them on the tops of the old batteries!!!!
Alan: They cost me around $10.00 Aus to make (that would be about $7.00 US), and as I have plenty of spare time (joined the ranks of the retired several years ago) I am happy to sit in the workshop and "cut" away with a heavy duty Stanley knife. I won a stack of these white batteries in one of the early MTH warehouse clearance auctions (Cabin Fever) that gave me the idea of "recycling".
Mallard: Like GunrunnerJohn said.....pick a place and start cutting. I cut the first one in half, but then realized there is a small piece of plastic molded into the top section of the shell (terminal end) that could be used to help strengthen and hold the top section in place with the bottom section, when I went to re-assemble them. Trial and error!!!
Peter.....Buco Australia.
Peter, you're buying the caps in the wrong place. I don't know what the Keystone #68 battery clip costs down under, but Aliexpress sells the 1.5F 5.5V supercaps in the $1.00-$1.50 range. I suspect shipping to you can't be that expensive, it's sure cheap all the way to the US.
