P3D Re: Nimslo batteries

[Linda Nygren <lnygren@xxxxxxx>]

Marvin Jones wrote:
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> >Three (3) No 386 Everready/Duracell Silver-Oxide batteries.<
> 
> I bought a Nimslo at the PSA convention in Atlanta. I went to the camera
> store near the hotel and asked for some 386 batteries. They didn't have any
> and later the guy told me that they had called every supplier in the state
> and could find none. It was an obsolete size. So when I got back to L.A. I
> checked in the small local drug store, and what should I find but a whole
> display rack full of 386 batteries! Apparently it's an extremely common
> size today. (Perhaps I made the mistake of telling the guy in Atlanta that
> they were for an older camera and he saw his excuse for not bothering.)
They are usually with the *watch batteries* in the jewelry department,
not in camera departments or in camera stores. I have had the best luck
finding them at Walmart, although they usually have them at KMart and
Target stores as well. -Linda


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