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[buckeyefarmer]

Yes, Sorrell Booke dressed up as Boss Hogg. Very friendly. Since I saw him in DC, not a large Dukes crowd there at the time. They had a general Lee there. another general from 2001 duke fest at cooters first store in VA.
And Rosco

 

[jwstewar]

They do tend to short internally and they have been known to be bad from factory. Age plays a factor on the oxidation process of the internal lead plates, the oxide falls to the bottom and builds up shorting out individual cells... or just a short between 2 plates will cause a discharge. When a battery is moved it can dislodge those little flakes and they fall to the bottom and if the cell isn't shorted it will take and hold a charge. Pretty simple really. You can renew an old dead battery that wont take a charge by flushing and cleaning the inside and refilling with new electrolyte, it jst depends on how old and damaged the plates are inside. there are youtube links on this process.

Again, both batteries were fine before. And both have been fine since put back into use including the battery sitting inside Mom's camper on a carpeted throw rug. I don't know why a battery sitting on concrete drains it when according to all of the "scientist" here it shouldn't, but it does.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Juri Geller could supposedly bend spoons with his mind. Maybe some people can supposedly ruin batteries by placing them on concrete.

 

[bunyip]

Can we get an opinion from James Randi...

 

[houstonscott]

America is a democracy.

 

[k0ua]

Again, both batteries were fine before. And both have been fine since put back into use including the battery sitting inside Mom's camper on a carpeted throw rug. I don't know why a battery sitting on concrete drains it when according to all of the "scientist" here it shouldn't, but it does.

How do you measure that current drain? What do you measure it with?

 

[jwstewar]

Does the car get used daily or often? Is the caper on any kind of trickle charger?

The car is not driven daily, it can sometimes sit for 3 or 4 weeks without being so much as started. The battery has been fine since put back in the car. The camper battery was on a trickle charger all winter until we moved stuff around and then it wasn't. Two weeks it was dead. Sitting in Mom's camper (without connected to anything) for almost a month and it too also still charged.


It would be interesting to take both batteries out of service for two weeks, place them on a block of wood or carpet and see what happens.

They are fine - essentially I'm doing that now with Mom's camper battery. It is inside her camper (so someone doesn't steal it) until I get there to winterize her camper and I bring it to my house to put on the trickle charger again.

 

[groundcover]

1>> Its been 3 years since I changed my fuel filter BUT I don't need to change it because I didnt run it much.. {yeah, right}
2>> I change my FF regularly but I keep getting water in my fuel system.. {fuel filters ARENT water separators}

Reminds me of years ago, worked with a kid that came back with a string trimmer in pieces and declared to the boss : “It ruined itself Chuck!”

 

[sixdogs]

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Reminds me of years ago, worked with a kid that came back with a string trimmer in pieces and declared to the boss : “It ruined itself Chuck!”

Reminds of my standard answer in high school..."It was like that when I found it".

 

[robbyr]

Citronella candles work on mosquitoes.