[Raleigh]

Thanks to Paul, who sent me the right dimensions, I built a box for my repro battery and connected it to my 46-350. My first experiment in posting photos will either work or it won't. Edited: It Works!

Here is the basic box from outside. The black and white circle on the side is a paper I glued over the connectors to prevent shorting and to cover up the ugliness of the riveting.

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Here is the box from the inside, showing the 9 volt and C cells for the "A" and "B" batteries.

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Another favor Paul did me was to alert me to a sale on eBay of an original battery. Here it is with my repro battery box inside:

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And, finally, here it is in the radio, working well and looking more or less like it did originally.

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Note the two visible modifications. 1) the inline fuse, which is too ugly to live, so I'll probably take it out one day, and 2) the connector for the antenna wires. For a while I was soldering and unsoldering these connections a lot to get the chassis out, so the connector was a great help. I'll probably leave it in.

Also notice that the electrolytic filter in the top center isn't original. The original was bulged and cracked, and so brittle that it fell apart in my hands. What you see there is PVC pipe almost exactly the right diameter, stuffed with new 'lytics, capped with a piece of plastic file folder, and painted with lovely ACE Hardware aluminum spray. It wouldn't fool anyone for long, but at a glance it looks OK.