Re: SV: storage tips needed

["Zach Vrooman" <zach@discover-net.net>]

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.



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> 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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