Re: battery terminals

["Mitchell Oates" <mitchoates@prodigy.net>]

     As far as the NOCO rings, if he has as much leakage around 
the posts as I did, the rings will be nothing but black acid-filled 
mush within 2 weeks. Been there, done that. Believe me, I was 
really pissed off when a matter of days after I'd went to the trouble 
of putting these rings on, I had to spend an entire weekend 
scraping that black crap off of and from underneath every damned 
terminal. Besides the fact that it's a PITA trying to stretch those 
rings over and underneath L terminals without tearing them, literally 
trying to put a square peg in a round hole.
     Don't get me wrong, NOCO makes a great product and the 
rings are great for contending with acid spray from the cap vents. 
But if we're talking about as much leakage around the posts as I 
believe Bob has, it'd be like trying to sop up the Exxon Valdez oil 
spill with a roll of paper towels, and just create another mess he'd 
have to clean off his batteries.
     After I went thru the "black mush" experience, I used the 
procedure I outlined in my last post to eliminate the problem once 
and for all.  Over 2 years later, I don't have a speck of corrosion on 
any of the terminals and cables. And with the USB flame arrestor 
caps, the batteries will pass the "one finger taste test". Wet one 
finger, run it across the top of the battery, and...... yea, I know, I'm 
a sick puppy.  :-)

                                               Mitch Oates