oldpilgrim
Elite Member
The old guy said most of the time... it was just a build up in the bottom of the case...
years ago I took a couple of batteries, dumped all the acid out, hosed the battery out, upside down, flushing all the sediment out of the bottom of the battery. Refilled with fresh acid and VIOLA ! They worked again. This removed the build up that shorted on the bottom of the plates.
They didn't last long, a few month maybe, so it wasn't worth the effort. I'd guess that the plates probably didn't have that much material remaining.