wrote:
I reckon that is what mine is, except it doesn't say Superadio anywhere
on the radio.I bought the radio brand spankin new back in the 1970s or
maybe it was in the 1980s.The Model No.on the back of the radio says,
7-2880B
The On/OFF pushbutton on top of the radio quit working a few years after
I bought the radio.I removed the pushbutton switch and I threw it away,
cheap piece of Junk! I drilled a hole in the back of the radio and I
installed an old toggle switch I already had in one of my junk boxes.It
Works for me.
Most of the fake ''chrome'' on the radio is gone because I used to take
the radio to work when I worked at a factory in Florence,Mississippi
that manufactured batteries for cars and 18 wheeler trucks and golf
carts and lawn mowers and those old six volt MG cars.The battery acid
vapors in that factory ate the fake ''chrome'' off of my radio.Very
often, the HOT battery acid vapors stung me like a Bumble Bee!
cuhulin


Veeeery interesting...

Working in that battery factory, we had to wear heavy rubber steel toe
boots and whatever material our uniforms were made of, the battery acid
didn't eat them up, and we had to wear long vinyl plastic gloves.Some of
the roller lines, some of the rollers wouldn't turn/revolve, so we had a
little pump up plastic garden sprayer, we had to spray oil on the
lines/rollers so we could slide those batteries on to and off of the
lines. One time, one of those extra heavy batteries slipped out of my
hands and landed on my left foot, it broke my middle toe in two places.

That battery factory was the most fun place I ever worked at before.I
always listened to talk shows on my radio.Joyce Creel used to run and
unplug my radio.We would cuss each other out.One time she accidently
knocked my radio over and bent the antenna.I told her, Don't worry about
it.I straightened the antenna out good enough.Her mom worked there too,
but they wouldn't aknowledge each other.
That battery factory opened in 1961, it closed down about thirty or
thirty five years later.
cuhulin

The pure Sulphuric battery acid we used was delivered to the factory in
white tanker 18 wheeler trucks from New Orleans.One time, I asked our
Foreman guy if I can have some on that pure battery acid.He gave me a
glass jar of it.I still have it too.He said, Be careful, don't let it
get on your skin, it has a chemical burn equal to seven hundred and
thirty five degrees.I Guarantee you, only one drop of that one hundred
percent pure Sulphuric acid, if it gets on your skin, it will make you
think you are in another World! I Know!
cuhulin

One time, I was trying to clean some battery corrosion out of an old
aluminum flashlight.I poured a little bit (about a spoon full) of that
pure Sulphuric acid in there.Immediatelly, it got HOT and smoke started
coming out of there.I dropped the flashlight and I ran out of my
shed.That stuff is Dangerous!
cuhulin

wrote:
One time, I was trying to clean some battery corrosion out of an old
aluminum flashlight.I poured a little bit (about a spoon full) of that
pure Sulphuric acid in there.Immediatelly, it got HOT and smoke started
coming out of there.I dropped the flashlight and I ran out of my
shed.That stuff is Dangerous!
cuhulin

Try white vinegar next time.

I stopped workin on my old trailer at 10:45 to watch one of my favorite
old movies on teh TCM channel, It Happened One Night.wHen the movie is
over I needs to go to the Lowe's store for twelve 1/4'' by about three
inches long bolts.

He flys the air with the greatest of easeeeeeeee,,,,,, the daring young
man on the flying trapezeeeee,,,,,,
cuhulin

That stuff ate a big hole in the bottom of that old aluminum
flashlight.I was scared of breathing the vapors.
cuhulin

Bob Dobbs wrote:
dave wrote:
wrote:
One time, I was trying to clean some battery corrosion out of an old
aluminum flashlight.I poured a little bit (about a spoon full) of that
pure Sulphuric acid in there.Immediatelly, it got HOT and smoke started
coming out of there.I dropped the flashlight and I ran out of my
shed.That stuff is Dangerous!
cuhulin

Try white vinegar next time.

Even better to try and neutralize the acidic battery juice than vinegar,
an acid itself, would be to use dish washing detergent, a base.


Flashlight batteries are full of alkaline, not acid. That's why you use
acid to clean up when one leaks. Then you flush with water. Then a
little isopropyl alcohol to flush the ater away.