Battery Water.

Liar and a bald faced liar at that. Your cowardice is ledgend.

 

Nope he just disproved you. You lying sack of unskilled uneducated
septic tank scum.

 

I hear you like to suck them out of your drug dealers ass and he likes
it that way.

 

What, are you a gay fish?

Why can't you people learn basic principles of flooded cell lead acid
battery maintenance?

 

Charging boils away water, not electrolyte and
as usual, you pretty obviously never practiced
your own advice.

If you think this proves your point, you can't read.

 

Perhaps you believe there's some difference between
"electrolyte" and dilute sulfuric acid ?

You've got two choices when filling a battery

a) distilled water

b) battery acid.

and the right answer is a).

WTF do you think goes into lead acid batteries ?

 

Using the term "battery acid" to describe electrolyte confuses the
amateurs and it would be unsafe for untrained amateurs to handle pure
sulfuric acid anyway, and that's probably the biggest reason for
telling amateurs to never add acid to a battery.

A secondary reason may be to keep them in ignorance of correct
procedures for adjusting the electrolyte level after charging, which
is what keeps motorcycle riders locked in a vicious cycle of over-
watering their batteries so they have to replace them prematurely.

Electrolyte, which is a carefully prepared mixture of distilled water
and sulfuric acid.

I mixed hundreds of gallons of electrolyte at a time in the battery
shop.

We added water to bring the electrolyte level in batteries up to the
correct level, and charged them.

After charging the batteries, we added electrolyte to those batteries
which had low electrolyte levels.

At any given time we had hundreds of batteries being charged or being
rebuilt.

 

Oh piss off you waffling sack of bullshit. I know many a professional
mechanic of all stripes. You'll never here them all call it
electrolyte or battery acid. Some days it's one some days the others
and some days it's "Krusty you faggot get out of america you pedarast"

 

The only reason pure amateurs might need to handle
anything other than distilled water would be if they'd
foolishly followed your very bad advice on adding
electrolyte at the end of the charge cycle.

Whatever you did or didn't do in the service doesn't
change the fact that you gave bad advice either.

In normal service, batteries lose only water, not electrolyte
or acid or anything else you want to call it. The only reason
for adding anything other than water would be a spill.

In this case, your advice to an inexperienced newby that
he should add electrolyte is bad to the point of being
dangerous. Shame on you for offering it you pompous
buffoon.

 

What, are you a gay fish?

Why can't you people learn basic principles of flooded cell lead acid
battery maintenance?

 

Low self esteem seems to prevent some people
from fessing up to their mistakes and learning
from them. That'd be my guess anyway.

And why do you say "people" plural ? Does anybody
else but Krusty believe his crap ?

 

I suspect he was dropped on his head as fast as he could be picked
back up.

 

Wrong. All you have to do is look at the clear plastic vent tube to
observe the
little droplets of sulfuric acid condensed on the inside.

And, anybody who ever pointed his vent hose towards the swing arm,
frame, or exhaust system has seen the evidence of acid on ferrous
metal parts.

"Dangerous"?

In what way?

Shame and guilt are bogus emotions that I don't indulge in.

 

Obviously the US Air Force believed in what they trained me to do with
batteries.

They had million$ of $$$ inve$ted in lead acid batteries, and having
some yo-yo in a maintenance department just add *water* to the
batteries wasn't getting the job done.

So they cycled the batteries through the professional battery shop on
a regular basis to get *proper service*, which included charging and
*electrolyte level adjustment* by adding *electrolyte* at the
completion of charging.

 

Wrong. All you have to do is look at the clear plastic vent tube to
observe the
little droplets of sulfuric acid condensed on the inside.

 

So howcome, with all that experience, you're giving
arsehole stupid advice about motorcycle batteries ?

Also, was this one of the jobs where your path to
advancement, promotion and prestige was blocked
by a conspiracy of Mexican Lesbians ? Or was that
someplace else ?

 

Nice reference here: (note the word "basics")

http://www.progressivedyn.com/battery_basics.html

During the recharging process as electricity flows
through the water portion of the electrolyte and water,
(H2O) is converted into its original elements, hydrogen
and oxygen. These gasses are very flammable and the
reason your RV or Marine batteries must be vented
outside. Gassing causes water loss and therefore
lead acid batteries need to have water added periodically.

And:

Do I ever need to add acid to my battery?

Under normal operating conditions, you never need to add
acid. Only distilled or deionized water should be added to
achieve the recommended electrolyte levels.

See also

http://www.trojanbattery.com/Tech-Support/FAQ/Maintenance.aspx

Sulfuric acid is a dangerous compound and ought to
be handled only when wearing protective eyewear.
Way different than distilled water.

Damn straight you're shameless.

So please describe the procedures you use when you
periodically added acid to your >>>motorcycle<<< batteries.

 

Decades ago, a friend had a Cossack Ural outfit and the owner's manual
(beautifully translated into English, by the way) worked on the basis
that when your Ural broke down, which it would, you were mostly on your
own[1].

So it advised to top up with distilled water. However, if no distilled
water was available you could, in an emergency, use "melted snow".

"But not," the manual solemnly warned, "from a tin roof".

[1] For something really major[2], like replacing the main bearings, you
were advised to contact your nearest Ural dealer. However, if there was
no dealer within easy reach, you were counselled to "consult your local
blacksmith". Honest.
[2] The toolkit was probably the biggest and best I've ever seen, so
coild cope with most things.

 

I'm wondering how Krusty the Krud can tell the difference between a
droplet of water and a droplet of sulfuric acid, just by looking at it.

Strike seven. He's out!

 

The net result of all of the back and forth on this subject is that
anyone thinking of trying to get useful advice on this group has given up
in disgust.

If the 2 or 3 or 4 of you must keep it up, how about taking it to email?