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Central Ontario | What is the best anti corrosion treatment on batteries.I installed new cables on a tractor last fall and could hardly believe how much blue dust had accumulated by spring.I can't remember what I might have put on them possibly some krown maybe grease is better.Pretty annoying how fast they got old looking. |
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NW Iowa | I use a mixture of Vaseline and baking soda to keep the cables from corrosion.
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Indiana | Put Optima batteries in and you will have ZERO corrosion. I love not having to clean & repaint corroded parts. |
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Ogallala,NE | coat the battery posts and clamps with a liberal layer of dialectric grease when you put it together. corrosion will never be an issue again. |
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s.c. Illinois | http://www.randrdistributing.net/whip.htm#
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NW Washington | Go to your NAPA store or similar place and buy the battery terminal corrosion prevention stuff they sell. The cleaner, felt washers and protection spray coating. http://www.napaonline.com/Catalog/Result.aspx?Ntt%3danti%2bcorrosio... |
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NW Central Ohio | +1...that's good stuff. The one thing you might want to watch...and we all do it, is how tight you're clamping things. The post doesn't have to be tight enough to hook a log chain to and pull the tractor out. Just tight enough to keep the clamp from vibrating off. I think we work the post of the battery way too hard sometimes getting the clamp "just a little tighter" and break the seal around the post. If that happens, those corrosion washers are very good for neutralizing the gas that comes out of the battery. Another thing is how much air is flowing over the battery. Expose a battery to the open air, and you'll see very little corrosion like you talk about. But enclose it in a battery box where there's no air movement...and it will be your worst nightmare.... |
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Michigan - Saginaw County | While special "stuff" might make you feel good, just plain grease will do the job nicely. You have it right there in the grease gun and you don't have to spend extra money and fuel running to town to get something special.
New bolts are always a good idea.
Use the battery brush to freshen up the mating surfaces. Squeeze the clamps shut and straighten out the ears you bent in by over tightening.
Grease the posts and the clamps all over before clamping. That includes on the mating surfaces.
No, that will not stop the clamp from making the proper electrical contact - it will protect those contacting surfaces by inhibiting oxygen from forming oxides that creep between the mating surfaces.
And as was mentioned above do not distort the clamp by the usual farmer technique for tightening bolts - crank em down till the threads strip. I swear some of you guys are 800 pound gorillas.
All this came from a misspent youth where I wasted part of it being an industrial electrician - and in charge of the lift truck battery shop where I tended to a fleet of more than a hundred, 3000 pound batteries.
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Central NSW, Australia | +1 Denny-o.
I've been doing exactly that for about forty years with good results. Funny thing is that anyone that has either seen me put grease on the mating surfaces or that I have told what I do in the course of discussion, tend to roll their eyes in a disbelieving way. Works for me and you but apparently for very few others :-)
Dave |
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Near Intersection of I-35 & I-90 Southern Mn. | Greasing the mating surfaces before installation seems counter productive to me but then again I can't argue with your experience. |
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South cental Ohio | Vaseline-petroleum jelly. I keep it in the shop for installing O-rings or filters and such. Works just fine on batteries too. |
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Renville County, MN | We use a copper anti-seize on battery posts and clamps. Helps make connections on those post and clamps that have had some bad connections and get pitted bad. Then coat with anti-corrosion spray and have very little connection or corrosion problems with this combo. |
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| Not saying it's the best but always have a tub of white lithium grease in the shop with a flux brush. I just did two tractors. Tore all the cables apart and put new bolts on since they were rusted to nothing. Grease the bolt and the cable end everywhere and the post. Haven't had a problem yet but it does take a bit more torque to get greasy ones tight. Usually have a spreader tool and a small hammer to get them on the post where they are supposed to be. I get the bolts from Waytek by the 100 and the correct nuts. |
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North West IA/western AZ | +1 for optima, sorry no help on OP question. |
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Mobile | Try fluid film or Whip Battery Protection |
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