Re: SV: storage tips needed

["John Van Vuren" <veedublu@prod.net>]

Hey now...  watch the cheesehead comments buddy

John

'87 16v Scirocco
and lots of other stuff
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>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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