Re: SV: storage tips needed

[Neal Tovsen <ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu>]

Um...yeah, sure Zach. Cheese-heads 'll believe anything, I tell ya.

;-)

Neal

On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Zach Vrooman wrote:

> The way this was explained to me, is that the batteries and concrete thing
> comes from a few old farmers. What would happen is that they'd store a
> piece of equipment in a barn, take out the battery, and hay would sometimes
> fall across the terminals, and discharge the battery. This is what I was
> told when I started at my present job. The guy could be full of it, but he
> heard it at a battery sales seminar. YMMV.
> 
> 
> 
> ----------
> > From: JLuk77@aol.com
> > To: ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu; scirocco-L@scirocco.org
> > Subject: Re: SV: storage tips needed
> > Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 10:34 PM
> > 
> > In a message dated 6/10/99 6:34:18 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
> > ntovsen@piper.hamline.edu writes:
> > 
> > << I usually take the battery out of the car to keep it from discharging.
> >  Store the battery on wood or cardboard. Concrete, IIRC, is especially
> bad
> >  for the battery, tho I don't know why.
> >   >>
> > this is old logic for rubber cased batteries, today's plastic ones are
> fine 
> > on concrete as they are not porous.  this is what I have been told, just
> to 
> > give you a heads up the concrete will not kill your battery.
> > Josh Lukasik, 88 16v 2.0
> > 
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			Neal Tovsen


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