Re: 6v battery shorted out? (BATTERY ACID)

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

<x-flowed>> Any grease will help, and is always a good idea, but you won't CURE this problem until you replace the battery. If you delay, you'll be replacing the battery AND the cable. 
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Thanks for this advice, I guess my battery needed replacement anyway as I 
noticed this occuring since I bought the car in June. 

Right before I turned the old battery in as a core, it gave me 2v on the 
voltmeter.  It still made my charger needle jump around though, on both the 
slow charge 2 amp setting and the 12 amp setting. 

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of places don't punch out the month/year 
markings on batteries anymore?  I think it's a scam because the batteries 
have a cast-in date that can pre-date the sale date by a few months.  If you 
lose your reciept, they can screw you out of a few months of pro-ration. 

- Everett 

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