Battery for a Mac Plus

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Battery for a Mac Plus

Postby SeanKennedy on Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:56 am

Ok - due to the peculiarities of YouShop and shipping (perfectly safe alkaline non-lithium :x ) batteries, I have a 4.5v Mac Plus battery in limbo which I can forward to one of our US based people. If no takers, I'll ask Youshop to bin it.

Now I know how the wife felt when NZ Couriers wouldn't deliver her Dior "dangerous goods" from StrawberryNet.

Bah!
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Re: Battery for a Mac Plus

Postby SeanKennedy on Mon Oct 03, 2016 6:36 am

...and binned. :(
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Re: Battery for a Mac Plus

Postby mons2b on Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:15 pm

Really they wont ship standard Alkaline batteries? Thats a pain. I have some old Macs with the strange half sized aa batteries. Im thinking of rigging them all for external battery mounts so theres never ever any future risk of a battery being forgotten about and corroding. I think with all these old computers its better to externalize the cmos batteries unless you use them a lot. Just my opinion of course.
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Re: Battery for a Mac Plus

Postby Gibsaw on Mon Oct 03, 2016 1:53 pm

I can't quite decide you're either dealing with the customer service equivalent of a shaved ape, or some kind of opportunistic shakedown for a "specialist" type of shipping. Did they make an "offer" (you can't refuse) of this?
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Re: Battery for a Mac Plus

Postby SeanKennedy on Mon Oct 03, 2016 2:37 pm

Oh they were happy to send it to an address in the US, or to return to the supplier. Just didn't want it on a plane going to New Zealand. I can understand that for anything that might leak mercury or lithium, but a sealed alkaline?
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Re: Battery for a Mac Plus

Postby Kitch on Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:40 pm

In the past I bought those replacement Mac batteries from Battery Masta at 45a Carlyle St.
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