"Barnyard BOb" wrote

My success resuscitating lead acid batteries is 'spotty' at best.
The investment in time, effort, materials and money spent replacing
'holey clothes' has convinced me to BE PRACTICAL and just limit my
input to TLC until a faithful battery has died a natural death....
then, just 'SIMPLY' replace it. :-)

Your mileage may vary.

First, let me say that it was "simple" was partially a poke at comparing the
complexity of doing something like raising a former ag pilot from the dead.

I have no great hope of getting long dead batteries working again, or
getting batteries to live twice as long as they would be expected to live,
or any other miracles of those types.

It would be nice to keep the batteries performing a little better in the
waning months of their lives. I have a lawn mower with a battery that
always seem to die early, and I hope I could get it to live longer.

Any other benefits I get from it will be gravy. It was cheap, and something
else to fiddle with. End of story, on my motivations for getting it.

Long ago, my college job involved large battery powered pallet movers. They
would be overcharged occasionally, or acid was somehow spilled on the
outside of the machine, and would then dry up. If one were to brush up
against one of these machines, and transfer some of the crystal acid onto
their clothes, it would not be noticeable, immediately.

When the clothes got washed, the acid was re-animated by the washer, and
would come out a mere shell of their former shape. :-)
--
Jim in NC