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| Thread ID: 104594 | 2009-11-02 02:33:00 | Diagnosing strange car problem - ideas? | forrest44 (754) | PC World Chat |
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| 826406 | 2009-11-02 18:09:00 | Back in the bad old days when you thought yourself lucky if your Lucas battery made at the Foremans Road works lasted 2 years, and when the cells were connected by exposed thick lead mouldings on top, the battery shops had testers. These had two pointed cad. plated prongs joined by a thick shunt and connected to a meter with the scale going from red to green.....and a wooden handle to hold it. There were also acid density testers, made of glass, with a float and a rubber bulb to draw the acid in. Each cell was tested in turn discharging umpteen amps into the tester. When batteries went down and wouldn't hold charge, it was often found for some reason to be an end cell that had failed. Penniless motorbike riders would chip the pitch out of the top of their 6v battery, remove the plates, clean the sludge out from the bottom, replace the plates, and pour molten pitch back to seal it all up and add new acid. This would often give a bit more life. Most of us on here,only go back to 1066,so please Ter........ |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 826407 | 2009-11-02 19:25:00 | Most of us on here,only go back to 1066,so please Ter........ Ah... but.... to try to get the youngsters of today to appreciate how lucky they are.....one has to go back back to 1066 and point out how things were then. I've had two cars now with original Jap fitted Panasonic batteries that were 10 years old before they had to be replaced, A Honda City, and a Hi-Jet van......a far cry from the olden days when in addition to Lucas and Exide etc there were back street battery makers that sold batteries that would last about 12 months. 'The Battery Shop' just down the road from Kershaws Korner govt surplus shop in Brum where I worked part time, used to re-paste batteries. I dont suppose that happens any more :) Just to give an indication of the era.....the battery shop used to have a shelf full of 2 volt accumulators being re-charged for those people still running battery radios, and you could still buy the 120v HT radio batteries.............:).............(and 9v grid bias batteries) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 826408 | 2009-11-02 20:01:00 | Ah... but.... to try to get the youngsters of today to appreciate how lucky they are.....one has to go back back to 1066 and point out how things were then. I've had two cars now with original Jap fitted Panasonic batteries that were 10 years old before they had to be replaced, A Honda City, and a Hi-Jet van......a far cry from the olden days when in addition to Lucas and Exide etc there were back street battery makers that sold batteries that would last about 12 months. 'The Battery Shop' just down the road from Kershaws Korner govt surplus shop in Brum where I worked part time, used to re-paste batteries. I dont suppose that happens any more :) Just to give an indication of the era.....the battery shop used to have a shelf full of 2 volt accumulators being re-charged for those people still running battery radios, and you could still buy the 120v HT radio batteries.............:).............(and 9v grid bias batteries) By gum,those were the days and best forgotten. As of course they are my most of us.:o |
Cicero (40) | ||
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