Need to jury rig a charger

[kingman99]

Hi

Need some help l am leaving on vacation tomorrow morning and l'm taking my T-40 but by accident l took the charger from my x650 home from my office.

Is there anything that l can do? I will be in SC but in a major town so there are options l hope.

Pleae advise

Thanks

Alan

[JaneL]

I will be in SC but in a major town so there are options l hope.

Where will you be?

[kingman99]

Hi

I will be in Hilton Head island

Alan

[kingman99]

Hi

I just checked my battery life and l have 73% left and all that l need it for is to check my e-mails.

My son will be there with his laptop but he will be using it for business purposes.

He gets a little anal with his laptop.

[kingman99]

The charger for my X650 l just realized is not an IBM but a generic one.

I tried to play with the plug but no dice.

[JaneL]

I will be in Hilton Head island

Ah... Other end of the state. Can't help, sorry.

[kingman99]

Thanks for the thought. Since l have over 70% it should last and if not l'll use my son's laptop.

Thanks again

[Harryc]

This guy does Priority mail shipping. You'll have it in 2 to 3 days... contact the seller before bidding to make sure. You'll also have to negotiate the 'ship to confirmed address' part if you use Paypal. Maybe you could overnight a money order.

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-16V-AC-ADAPTER- ... dZViewItem

[BruisedQuasar]

No offense intended but the term is "Jerry Rig", not jury rig. "Jerry Rig" is a slang term that originated during WWII and today is considered offensive, since the "Jerry" part refers to the Japanese. "Jerry" was a racial slur American military used to refer to Japanese soldiers. Many Japanese-Americans consider it offensive like "Jap".

Bruised

[GomJabbar]

No offense, but the more proper term is "jury-rig", not "Jerry-rig". And "Jerry" refers to a German, not a Japanese.

Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand. Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury_rig

Although the “jury” in “jury-rig” is spelled the same way as the “jury” that deliberates, it has a completely different history. This “jury” began, at least 500 years ago, as a nautical term meaning “temporary.” If a ship’s mast broke, the crew put up a “jury-mast” and “jury-rigged” it. A “jury fore-mast” is mentioned in “Robinson Crusoe,” Daniel Defoe’s 1719 novel of shipwreck and adventure.

As for “jerry,” British soldiers began calling Germans “Jerries” in World War I, not World War II. But the “jerry” in “jerry-built” dates back to the mid-1800s. It may be old British slang for a chamber pot, or it may be a reference to the walls of Jericho, which came tumbling down—but word historians don’t believe it has anything to do with Germans.

“Jerry-rig” is a blend of “jerry-built” and “jury-rig,” but only recently have these two terms begun to mingle. The earliest date for “jerry-rig” given in any major dictionary is 1959, and some dictionaries don’t include it at all, for they still consider it a mistaken form—a garble.

Today “jury-rigged” and “jerry-built” mean nearly the same thing: “assembled hastily or sloppily.”

http://www.wordcourt.com/archives.php?show=2004-03-10

[Harryc]

"Jerry" was a racial slur American military used to refer to Japanese soldiers.

Nah, they just called them 'Japs'.

[Nick Y]

How about that old topic of charging from a car cigarette lighter socket? May not charge the battery fully, but may keep it going.

Open to suggestions from others....

Nick

[Kyocera]

\please stick to the original topic, jury rig is not offensive to anyone, let it go.

Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand. Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast.

Gomjabbar is correct.

Sometimes it helpful to check with google before going off the deep end, no pun intended.