RE: (ET) Battery removal

[<diggerdave bigfoot com>]

If your batteries have these "lifting handles" or slots thru which you can 
thread a nylon strap it works very well.  just buy a 2 foot length of 
nylon 
strap from the local hardware or fabric store, thread thru the slots and 
lift.  
You don't need anything fancy.


> On 26 Sep 2001, at 8:48, Vanderhoef, Roy wrote:
> 
> > slip the terminal
> > ends over the pole and lift ...
> 
> I used to use a battery lifter that grabbed the terminals, but no more.  
> The terminals are not meant for lifting.  Doing so will destroy the seal 
> between the post and battery top.  
> 
> Use one of these battery lifters once, and forever more you will have 
> electrolyte (acid) seeping up and getting into the terminal clamp of at 
> least one post, maybe all of them.  Ugh.
> 
> US Battery (Interstate Workaholic) and I believe Trojan batteries (at 
> least Trojans used to) come with lifting fittings molded into the tops.  
> A dealer can supply a lifting handle to fit these.  Usually they'll give 
> you one if you buy a tractor-full of batteries.
> 
> 
> David Roden - Akron, Ohio, USA
> 1991 Solectria Force 144vac
> 1991 Ford Escort Green/EV 128vdc
> 1979 General Engines ElectroPed 24vdc
> 1970 GE Elec-trak E15 36vdc
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