Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
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.. who (in Louisiana preferably) supplies this?

It used to be available all over the place, but no-one seems to have
any, any more.

Is this a plot to sell more batteries?


95% of the batteries no longer have openings to pour it into, which is a
VERY dangerous operation.

Adding acid to a dying battery is NOT a solution as all it does is eat
holes in the already eaten away plates that are left...give you a false
gravity reading without the real capacity to back it up.

The original acid load always disappears due to lead sulphate
crystallizing, making the acid unrecoverable...which also makes the lead
unrecoverable. Acid is not consumed, unrecoverably, for any other reason
unless you boil it out. It does not need "replacing" like water, that is
converted into hydrogen gas, is.

Larry
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Larry wrote:

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

.. who (in Louisiana preferably) supplies this?

It used to be available all over the place, but no-one seems to have
any, any more.

Is this a plot to sell more batteries?


95% of the batteries no longer have openings to pour it into, which is a
VERY dangerous operation.

So 'Yes' to the plot then.

:-)

--
Molesworth - who has topped-up batteries for 45 years or more.. when
needed.

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
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So 'Yes' to the plot then.

:-)


I think more "no" to the lawyers waiting to sue the battery store selling
acid. Would YOU want to sell highly toxic acid to litigation-happy
customers? Are you crazy?!!

Larry
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Larry wrote:

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

So 'Yes' to the plot then.

:-)


I think more "no" to the lawyers waiting to sue the battery store selling
acid. Would YOU want to sell highly toxic acid to litigation-happy
customers? Are you crazy?!!

No, I'm English.

I postulated that the unavailablitity of battery distilled water *might*
have been down to a plot by the battery manufacturers who don't want
batteries lasting longer. Similar situation years ago with shock
absorbers on cars; planned obsolescence.

But I take your point (sigh).

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Molesworth

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
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I postulated that the unavailablitity of battery distilled water

Wait! You said battery acid, before, didn't you?

Distilled water is available in every grocery store in the USA in many
forms. I make mine with a still in my kitchen to have clean drinking
water, free of government tampering, to drink.
http://www.waterwise.com/productcart...p?idproduct=24
It makes water with about .12ppm total dissolved solids, after passing
through the carbon post-filter. It doesn't even conduct electricity!

Sorry if I was confused about what you were looking for....

Larry
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On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 02:38:26 +0000, Larry wrote:

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

I postulated that the unavailablitity of battery distilled water

Wait! You said battery acid, before, didn't you?

Distilled water is available in every grocery store in the USA in many
forms. I make mine with a still in my kitchen to have clean drinking
water, free of government tampering, to drink.
http://www.waterwise.com/productcart...p?idproduct=24
It makes water with about .12ppm total dissolved solids, after passing
through the carbon post-filter. It doesn't even conduct electricity!

Sorry if I was confused about what you were looking for....

Brought back a memory buried for more than 40 years.
We had a sea-water cooled tank to draw off water from the deaerating
feed tank for the boiler make-up water. It was meant for water
testing. That water had already been triple distilled, and now it had
been well-cleaned of dissolved oxygen.
Tasteless. Don't know if it conducted, only that it was wet.
Shortly after coming aboard I tapped off a cup to drink, as it was the
coolest beverage in the fire room. A Cajun named Blanchard saw me
drinking it, and warned me "Don't drink that. Makes you **** hard."
Don't know about that, but since it was essentially tasteless, I just
took his advice anyway.

--Vic

Vic Smith wrote in
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A Cajun named Blanchard saw me
drinking it, and warned me "Don't drink that. Makes you **** hard."
Don't know about that, but since it was essentially tasteless, I just
took his advice anyway.



Hmm...My Cajun's name was Alexander Dupree. He took me home to Louisiana
on leave from USS Everglades (AD-24) in the late 60's. Had a great time
fishing from his pirot boat. Cajuns KNOW where the fish are!

Drinking it is one of the most healthy things you did in your life.
Water is the body's cleaning agent. The purer it is, the better it
cleans.

Of course, if you sell "ionizers" threatened by the distiller
manufacturers:
http://www.ionizers.org/distilled_water.html
http://www.ionizers.org/purifiedwater.html
"Dr Theodore Baroody, in his book "Alkalize or Die", offers a list of
symptoms that may be precipitated by Acidosis"
Why do doctors prostrate themselves for a few easy bucks?
http://www.mercola.com/article/water...lled_water.htm

Here's a little truth:
http://www.durastill.com/myths.html
http://www.energiseforlife.com/disti...-questions.php
I've been drinking distilled water for 15 years since my last kidney
stone drove me to my knees with pain. Kidney stones are caused by the
calcium buildup from elemental calcium in drinking water. No calcium, no
kidney stones. Pretty simple, actually. I used to get them regularly.
No more!

If you saw what was left in my distiller after making a batch of
distilled from Charleston City Water, you wouldn't even bathe in it! It
looks like sewage, all brown and gook. My last hot water heater lasted 4
years before the acid from the lake water the city provides ate away the
inside of it because I found out it didn't have a sacrificial magnesium
anode. We cut open what was left to see why it wouldn't drain. IT WAS
FULL OF MUD!! REAL MUD!! They want me to drink that?? NOT.

On topic, I would NEVER drink water from a boat tank filled with crap
from various ports. Any hose laying on a dock at any marine in
Charleston GROWS GREEN ALGAE in about 4 hours. The water turns green
with it, ask Skip, who just left here. Those tanks can't be cleaned,
just killed. No thanks. I bring a 5 gallon tank with a pump for
whatever crew I'm with to drink PURE, distilled water from my still.




Larry
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Larry,

You weren't wrong. He said he was looking for battery electrolyte and he
said he was looking in Louisiana. Assuming he means battery acid then he's
looking for 33.5% Sulfuric acid. I would imagine any chemical supply house
would sell Sulfuric acid and he can get distilled water at any supermarket.
JC Whitney sells battery acid over the internet so I'm surprised he can't
find it locally. Perhaps he should look for a motorcycle parts store.

Dave M.

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 01:23:11 +0000, Larry wrote:

Molesworth wrote in news:ukmole-
:

So 'Yes' to the plot then.

:-)


I think more "no" to the lawyers waiting to sue the battery store selling
acid.

Just say no to lawyers? Good idea. Use a shotgun.

Would YOU want to sell highly toxic acid to litigation-happy
customers? Are you crazy?!!

The acid is not particularly toxic, just corrosive. It is hydrogen
ions, found in your stomach already, and sulphate ions. Magnesium
sulphate is the well known Epsom salts. You can swallow a lot of it,
and while it is a laxative, it will not poison you. Vinegar is the
toxic one. A pint of regular vinegar will likely kill you. It is a
popular means of suicide in Russia. All you need is, oddly enough,is
over the counter antacids, to drink a good bit of dilute sulfuric
acid and suffer no real ill effects. The 98% stuff is highly dangerous
and they sell that to open clogged drains. The battery stuff is
dilute, and much less dangerous.

They sell concentrated sulfuric acid at the grocery store, as well as
deadly vinegar and glycol, not to mention lye, pure sodium hydroxide.
That stuff is really corrosive. It will dissolve a human body. The fat
turns into soap. You want grocery store toxic, check out the thallium
salts. Sold to kill ants. Mouse poison, roach poison, fly killer. Some
of that stuff is quite similar to nerve gas. Lots of hazmat at the
supermarket. For the inhaler of glue, toluene by the quart.

Casady

(Richard Casady) wrote in
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They sell concentrated sulfuric acid at the grocery store, as well as
deadly vinegar and glycol, not to mention lye, pure sodium hydroxide.
That stuff is really corrosive. It will dissolve a human body. The fat
turns into soap. You want grocery store toxic, check out the thallium
salts. Sold to kill ants. Mouse poison, roach poison, fly killer. Some
of that stuff is quite similar to nerve gas. Lots of hazmat at the
supermarket. For the inhaler of glue, toluene by the quart.


Oh, I know! I used to mix them together to see if we could get them to
explode...again...from under my mother's sink when I was 12....(c;

Remember "Chemistry Sets"?....(c;

Larry
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