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| 1049.1 | Hensley Battery in Co Springs did mine for $2.50 | DIENTE::OSWALD | Randy Oswald | Mon Jul 17 1989 17:03 | 15 |
| Any battery shop should do it for a small fee. Most any good size city should
have one or more places that specialize in automobile batteries and they *will*
have acid. While its true that lots of batteries are sealed there are more than
a few that aren't. In fact, I believe that most low end (read cheap) batteries
are still the fill-em-up type. Some places that should have acid, Sears Auto
dept., Checker Auto, or anyplace that does any significant amount of trade
in batteries.
You may be running into the "you didn't buy it here so I aint got what you need"
syndrome. I have found this to be very common when things obviously catalog
ordered need serviced. Not much you can when you run into it, you can call
the proprietor on their obvious untruth, but that rarely helps.
Good luck,
Randy
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| 1049.2 | | BTOVT::BREAULT_B | | Mon Jul 17 1989 17:03 | 4 |
| Try a motorcycle dealer. To my knowledge motorcycle batteries are not
the sealed type yet,although I could be wrong about that. I bought a
motorcycle battery for my fild box from SEARS and it came with a
container of acid to fill the battery with.
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| 1049.3 | Battery Company... | CSCOA5::HOOD_DO | | Mon Jul 17 1989 17:28 | 8 |
| to reiterate....try a battery company. Not a shop that sells batteries,
but a battery company. I had the same problem with the battery i
bought from Tower...If I had known, i would have bought a comparable
battery from KMART (complete WITH acid). Anyway, a local battery
company (the ONLY one in the area) had 20 gallon containers of acid.
They filled my battery for free! If battery acid is pure HCL or
sulphuric acid, you might be able to get it from a chemical company.
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| 1049.4 | Keep looking ..... | NPOGRP::WEIER | | Tue Jul 18 1989 10:42 | 18 |
| Two suggestions that have already been offered;
A motorcycle dealer who also services motorcycles. Motorcycle
batteries are not normally sealed, and are usually drained when
the motorcycle won't be used for a while. Since a motorcycle dealer
would be used to dealing with 'un-sealed' batteries, they should
have some electrolyte.
Suggestion 2 would be Sears. You could always 'lie', and tell
them you bought a battery and it didn't come with any electrolyte...
One more suggestion in from the peanut gallery here;
They said to try NAPA, MAYBE ADAP, but basically a parts place
that also has a machine shop. Where do you live? Maybe they know
of a place in particular.
Good luck!
Patty
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| 1049.5 | K-Mart Battery - tell me more | CLOSUS::TAVARES | John -- Stay low, keep moving | Tue Jul 18 1989 11:30 | 5 |
| RE: .3
Could you add some detail on the K-mart battery. Sounds like a
simple solution to the problem, particularly if the "comparable"
also means price!
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| 1049.6 | We don't stock it, it's against the law! | SMVDV1::DHENRY | I'm the NAR | Tue Jul 18 1989 11:36 | 16 |
| RE: < Note 1049.4 by NPOGRP::WEIER >
> that also has a machine shop. Where do you live? Maybe they know
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nashua, NH
> They said to try NAPA, MAYBE ADAP, but basically a parts place
Interesting idea, and I did indeed try it. I went into one ADAP in the
area, and the man at the counter actually fed me a line about it being
"illegal to sell battery acid the since the 'hippie days', when those
long haired freaks made bombs with it." :-)
Later,
Don
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| 1049.8 | kids... | K::FISHER | Stop and Smell the Balsa! | Tue Jul 18 1989 11:48 | 20 |
| > "illegal to sell battery acid the since the 'hippie days', when those
> long haired freaks made bombs with it." :-)
Don - that ain't bad - I bought a strawberry pie the other day at
a Big Boy and they wouldn't include the can of whipped cream.
They always used to so I asked why. Seems kids have been getting
high on the gas propellant in the can - if you hold it upright
and spray it up your nose...
Anyway - I also had a major hassle with a tower battery and ended
up begging the sears guy to put some stuff in it. I volunteered to
pay and then they did it for nothing.
Later I really solved the problem with a sealed battery and now I don't
worry about the hydrogen venting and blowing up either.
Bye --+--
Kay R. Fisher |
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| 1049.9 | Found a place!! | FRSBEE::WEIER | | Tue Jul 18 1989 12:42 | 9 |
| Don,
I just called Nashua Honda motorcycle dealer (downtown), and
they said if you bring the battery into the service dept., they
will fill it for you for about $5.00. If you don't know where it
is, give me a call (223-3517), and I can give you directions. They're
open till 5:00 p.m.
Patty
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| 1049.10 | It's all the rage in Kiddyland | LEDS::COHEN | | Wed Jul 19 1989 12:23 | 18 |
| >They always used to so I asked why. Seems kids have been getting
>high on the gas propellant in the can - if you hold it upright
>and spray it up your nose...
No, Kay, you don't spray it up your nose, you simply inhale it. The
propellant in WhippedCream in Nitrous Oxide (N20), commonly known as
Laughing Gas. It's identical in every way, shape, and form to what you
get at the dentists office. It's why WhippedCream containers now have
the Tamperproof plastic seals on their covers. I once went to
Cumberland Farms to get some WC for IceCream, and of the 20 or so cans in
the cooler, only ONE hadn't been "whiffed up". The guy at the store said
that he'd had a real problem with kids just popping the tops off the
containters, and sucking up the N20, right there in the back of the
store!
At least it isn't Airplane glue their breathing. N20 is a nerve gas,
but it's affects are relatively harmless, and they only last a few
minutes.
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