Re: Battery lifespan

On Mar 6, 11:29 am, John_H <john4...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Back in the days of my impoverished youth, we used to perodically
> drain our motorcycle batteries and hose 'em out to get rid of the crud
> that collects in the bottom (and eventually shorts the cells).

Yep, I used to do that with car batteries as a kid. Only get a
couple of goes at it. Mind you, that was with batteries from
the dump.

The motorbike batteries from the dump were then connected
the wrong way around the terminals of the now charged car
battery to make awesome exploding hydrogen balloons by
attacthing a hose to the vent and inflating it :-)  just gotta be
carefull not to get any acid splashes up the hose as that rots
the balloon almost instantly.

I had everyone on my street come out of their houses wondering
WTF?!?! one quiet night. Just gotta tape the fuse near the knot
at the bottom, pretty sight watching it float up then ... BOOM :-)

All good. Lot of crap in the bottom of them.