Hey Russianwolf

[Thom2]

I just wanted to let you know that your battery problems are officially over and have moved on.

I was sitting downstairs tonight watching tv when I heard a LOUD bang/pop, at first I thought the cat knocked a canister off the counter upstairs. I went up to investigate and found the cat sleeping on the back of the couch. Well it's pretty late and now my mind is going into "intruder" mode.

Make my rounds upstairs and head for the shop. Throw the door to the shop open, flip the light on and nothing.

Now I'm wondering what could have possibly made this noise, it was LOUD. As I stand in the shop, I start to see the haze forming ... uh oh ....

It turns out that with the electrical system problems on the wife's Jeep lately, I threw a battery on a used charger that I recently got, and while I checked the charger over and knew the timer and what not was working, I should have NEVER forgot and left it on the charger regardless.

Long story short, the group 24 battery that I had on the charger EXPLODED, yes E-X-P-L-O-D-E-D ............ pieces all over the shop, acid all over the floor, but fortunately contained to the area right around the battery.

I know better and this is the first time that something like this has happened to me, but somebody needs to kick me in the ### for being so stupid. I just THANK GOD that nobody was in the shop when it happened.

So Mike, throw a battery in your tractor and relax knowing that your problems have found another home.


Thom
offering a free group 24 battery, some assembly required

[Popeye]

And here'ssssssssssssss the leg windup......................KICK!!!!!!!!! Sure glad the munchkin wasn't out there. Sure glad neither you or Reva weren't out there either.
I've left a bunch of batteries on charge overnite. Don't think I will anymore, guess I've been lucky. Pat

[maxparot]

I guess it wasn't an automatic charger.

[WayneJ]

Winter warning!! Don't ever try to charge a battery when its frozen...DAMHIKT It will distroy a new pair of jeans, didn't hurt the nylon jacket tho. It became a mini hydrogen bomb.
Wayne

[Russianwolf]

at least I'm not the only one.

Thom, thanks for the heads up. I'll let my tractor and truck know that all problem batteries should relocate themselves to your domocile.



As a side note, I jumped the tractor off last night and got the front yard mowed. Must be a dead cell.

[billwmeyer]

I went to jump a dead battery in a car several years ago. I accidently touched the two cables together near the dead battery and I thought a shotgun went off in my ear. It blew the side out of the battery, and luckily didn't spew that direction.

I changed underware, bought a new battery, and ever since I have hooked up the dead battery first, as I knew I should have done. I was raised on a farm and had jumped more dead batteries by the time I was 18 than most mechanics do in a lifetime. It only takes one though.

Bill