baterry door for a 15C hand held calculator

[Paul Osborne]

I am looking for a battery door for a 15C or 12C hand held calculator. I am a marine systems developer and this little calculator has been the best purchase ever. So if any knows where I can get one please advise.

Regards

Paul M. Osborne P.Eng
SNC-Lavalin

[Jeff O.]

Paul,

Unfortunately, hp seems to no longer stock the part, at least there doensn’t seem to be any way to select it at this link. You may get lucky and a kind soul (with spare parts) will be able to help you. However, most people treasure their 11C, 15C and 16C models as much as you do, so a spare door may be hard to come by. Absent such luck, your cheapest option may be to purchase a 12C on eBay, making sure to get an older one that uses the three A76/LR44/357 button cells. The current 12c and 12cp use a single CR2032 coin cell and the battery door is different. I am not sure when they switched over to the new battery type. I have a Malaysian-made unit from 1998 that has the old-style door. Older 12C’s from the early-to-mid 80’s made in the USA and Brazil are somewhat collectable, but I don’t believe that the later units made other places have achieved that status (yet?), so one may be had for reasonable cost. Maybe you could re-sell the 12C sans battery door.

My apologies if I have stated the painfully obvious.

Good luck.

Edited: 31 May 2006, 2:37 p.m.

[Karl Schneider]

Paul --

You could look on eBay for auctions that include only a battery door, or a non-working 10/11/12/15/16 Voyager-series model (except the 12C's from the past few years) for spare parts.

Auctions that inlcude only battery doors are easy to find for the Pioneer-series models (and maybe the 18/28 "clamshell" models, whose doors were of poor design), but I'm not sure about the Voyagers.

-- KS