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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | WI_guy_turnedMudDuck - 6/27/2013 9:22 PM
Lose the wing nuts and use nylon lock nuts on your new batteries.
Nylon nuts will not give you enough contact pressure. Always use stainless steel hardware on your batteries- nuts & washers.
JJ- This is actually a battery post seal problem. As a lead-acid battery ages, the positive plate grids grow. This pushes against the positive post and causes the seal between the post and the case to begin to separate. When there is sufficient separation, the electrolyte then is drawn out of the battery through the opening by capillary action and it reacts with the battery terminal and corrosion is formed. If the positive plate growth has advanced this far, the battery is near end of life...replace it.
Oh, almost forgot. Positive plate grid growth is accelerated by constant float charging. Sometimes called trickle charging......
Have fun!
Al
Edited by ESOX Maniac 6/29/2013 7:40 AM
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