AA cells can be installed in a socket of larger diameter than itself, if you wrap it in several layers of paper, foam or any other available material suitable for this purpose. For example, a galvanic cell AAA can be installed in a standard socket AA.
If the length of the socket is greater than the length of a galvanic cell between their respective contacts should be inserted in a folded several times a piece of aluminum foil.
Recommend to read
Outdoor table with an ice compartment: build it in a weekend
You know that feeling when the heat is crushing, the ice in the bucket melts faster than you can pour drinks, and your guests are already standing with empty glasses? That's when an...
Steam bather’s dream
The sauna stove described below is not the first one I have designed and built. Before that, there were designs for a portable sauna “badger hollow” with a simple “samovar”-type stove, and...