[T3] 6v battery shorted out?

["Everett Barnes" <everettb@thesamba.com>]

<x-flowed>Yesterday I went out to my 6 volt '66 Type 34 and dang, dead battery.  
Really dead, the dash lights didn't even come on. 

I thought something ran it down so I hooked up my battery charger.  The 
charger just clicks on/off and the little dial flicks back and forth near 
the 0% charged mark.  Weird.  I guess the battery shorted out internally?  I 
never had that happen before.  Voltmeter reads only milivolts. 

The 6v battery in my Squareback charges fine so I swapped it over.  I 
charged it up last night, drove to the gas station, and it wouldn't restart 
when I got back home or this morning.  A dead cell, most likely. 

Bad day for 6v stuff. 

It's Optima time. 

--
Everett Barnes
'63 Squareback, '66 Type 34 

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