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I've been told you can bring a dead battery to life by draining the acid out, pouring in boiling water, and returning the acid. What do you think?

I cant find the drane
can you fix thes batterys i can male to you to fix
thanks frend

I think you've been told some BS.

What does that soppoaset to do, Richard?

In only one situation will battery flushing work. If the sulfates from the plates settle to the bottom and short the plates to each other (the symptom of this is a slow drain on batt voltage when the batt is not hooked up to anything)...then flushing will work for a while. Forget epsom salt solution...if it works at all.
Caustic soda (lye) will rejuvenate plate calcification...but it's a horrible job and who wants that schidt around their place?

Thanks, likely why I've not heard that before.

I doubt th9t

I've been told it only works if you dup the acid into a trout stream.

It will permanently alter the chemical balance between the acid and the cell plates. Any rejuvenation, if it happens at all, will be temporary, and the battery will never recover its full capacity. The "acid" in a discharged battery is almost pure water- - - -all the sulfuric acid has been absorbed by the cell plates and has been converted to lead sulfate. The only way an acid change works at all is to start with a fully charged battery with a normal concentration of electrolyte (1.265 specific gravity) with all the reactive substance of the cell plated reconverted to pure lead (negative plates) and Lead dioxide (positive plates). An acid change usually works well only on a battery that has been in service less than three months.

I know blowing a battery up is no fun.

Cause it smells like you had too may of Mema's deviled eggs?

I cut a dead battery open once. Cant remember why but the plates were almost dissolved away. Flushing wouldn't have restored the.metal to the plates.

If it really worked, I can guarantee you that my dad would have never purchased another single battery - he was raised in the Great Depression and saves/recycles every thing imaginable.

I brought a marine deep cycle battery back that wouldn't take a charge by turning it upside down overnight, flipped it back over and hooked the charger to it, stated charging after that, used it for another fishing season.

Back in the 80's, my cousin had a battery recycling business. He'd pick them up from stores, clean them up, put them on some kind of battery restoring machine, and resell them as recycles. There was a good demand for them. He made some decent money but it about destroyed his back. Carrying those heavy things 100 times a day, every day, was pretty hard on the body.

You must include a Kroil Douche in the master -plan.

I bought a recycled battery from one of those places back around the late seventies; think it got me by for a few months in a worn out six cylinder Nova. I also ran recycled oil in a 64 Wagoneer that smoked like a chimney; two quarts a day. She had recycled tires too. Best vehicle ever. Bought it for fifty bucks, sold it for two hundred, my buyer restored it to like new, and still has it!

We replaced the batteries in an old 4 wheel drive tractor today. We have two of these old Versatiles and this is probably the +5th time I remember swapping out the batteries.


The batteries are up behind the cab but it's not too bad if you have a flat bed pickup. Just back up to the rear tires and heave ho.

They are heavy items, got curious and looked, 132lbs apiece. The parts store boys each took a side but I'm so manly I do it by myself.

Fugkin legend^^