<VV> BATTERY LIFE my take

[Ray Davis]

Back in my youth when money was tighter that it is now, I dumped the acid out of dead batteries, flushed them good with a hose, added new acid, charged and returned them to the car.  Learned that trick from an old guy that travel around picking up batteries (before recycling was in), restoring them in this fashion and reselling them.  Sometimes he would even give them a fresh coat of paint.  I have also used J Cs additive.  Both worked.  Good to know it was Epsom salts.  A dab of which on onion plants will produce a sweeter onion!
Ray Davis
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> From: N2VZD at aol.com
> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:45:57 -0400
> To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
> Subject: Re: <VV> BATTERY LIFE my take
> 
> where i grew up , a guy had a large shop behind his house for manufacturing 
> batteries. his "Letterman" batteries were famous for lasting longer than 
> anything else around at the time. i used to, as a kid visit his shop. the 
> lead came from Star lake NY lead mines owned by his brother. he said the 
> only real secret was adding a small amount of magnesium sulfate ( Epsom salts 
> ) to the acid to slow sulfation.
> J C Whitney used to sell "magic" additives for batteries that were not 
> much more than epsom salts in water , or powders ...the secret is to slow or 
> stop sulfation..which builds up under the plates , eventually reaching the 
> plates and shorting them out...and of course depleting the plate lead 
> content. good batteries have better plates , AND they are supported higher off 
> the bottom of the case.
> SO i add Epsom salts to the cells of all of my batteries when i buy them. 
> they seem to last a long time. i do keep those cheap battery maintainers 
> from harbor freight on the vehicles in storage..
> SO i look for batteries with access to the cells when buying also.
> i did the same thing to my big boat , and as far as i know , the 
> batteries on board (7, 2 very large) are still at it after @10 years.
> regards, Tim Colson
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