<div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 15, 2020, 11:07 AM dave <<a href="mailto:dave@ranteer.com">dave@ranteer.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-1529431738971953131WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">...I have a battery charger that I bought from Kmart (remember them) around 1978. All steel construction with an analog gage in front. It still works great...</p></div></div></blockquote></div><div dir="auto">My Kmart charger has been in service since 1971. For the past 20 years it has been the power source for a light and two exhaust fans in our cabin outhouse.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Just hanging from a hook under the deck it has been operating 24/7 most months for two decades.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">They really don't build stuff like that anymore.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Geo</div><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="m_-1529431738971953131WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div></div>
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