From: Jim Newton (jnewton@laurel.com)
Date: Sat Jul 05 2003 - 11:23:52 PDT
Hi Fred...
I will take a pair of 6TLs over to my local shop on Monday and have
them zapped, and I'll hang around and watch what they do and ask. I
will then report back here, and maybe it is a process that can be
performed at home.
As far as finding a shop in your area, you can try:
I typed in Batteries for the type of business, and specified New
Jersey, and got one good match, but I think this shop is in East New
Jersey:
LEE BATTERY SERVICE INCORPORATED
MANASQUAN, NJ 07719
(732) 528-5337
>I'd gladly pay the ten bucks to try to revive my one dead 6tl that EDTA didn't
>help. But, I don't know where there is a battery shop here in North Jersey.
>Does anyone have a recommendation? If not, are they just zapped with AC, like
>from a battery charger before the diodes? Maybe there is a process I could do
>myself?
>
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jim Newton" <jnewton@laurel.com>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 3:23 AM
>Subject: Re: [MV] 6TL Charging Problems
>
>
>
>Hi Dick...
>
>I use the EDTL chemical as well in my batteries. However, if you find
>yourself with a battery that has the symptoms first described in this
>thread, you are usually better off having the batteries zapped and
>THEN adding EDTL after the batteries have been recovered. The
>chemical is much better at re-dissolving small amounts of sulfation on
>the plates and keeping it off. If the sulfation is too thick, the
>chemical will not work to recover the battery.
>
>>Pay a visit to: www.sciencelab.com
>>
>>They have an anti-sulfation chemical that you can add to the your
>>battery and prevent the plates from sulfating.
>>\
>>Maybe you can buy it at an agricultural or commercial truck supply placed, too.
>>
>>Dick
>>
>>Jim Newton wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Kenneth...
>>>
>>> Take it to your local battery house (not Pep Boys...an industrial or
>>> agricultural battery place) and ask them to zap the battery and test
>>> it for you. Most places charge around $10 to do this. In almost all
>>> cases, this will revive the battery. The plates on the 6TL batteries
>>> are so thick that they are not prone to corrosion or decay. The
>>> problem that they have in HMVs is they build up sulfation. Zapping
>>> the battery blows off the sulfation.
>>>
>>> Good luck!
>>>
>>> >Greetings list. My deuce tractor suddenly developed a starting problem. I
>had
>>> >one episode of slower cranking and then no start. I checked the batteries
>and
>>> >the rear battery was at 13+ volts. The front was at 10.5 volts. Slaved the
>>> >truck and took it for a spin. Volt meter reading was normal. Parked the
>truck,
>>> >attempted to restart, click click. Today I pulled the low battery and hooked
>>> >it up to the charger. The battery just isn't accepting a charge. I even went
>>> >around the battery with a small dead blow hammer and gave it a few taps.
>These
>>> >batteries appear recent. Any ideas what might cause one battery to do this
>or
>>> >is it just a bad battery? It's never been center tapped by me and I
>seriously
>>> >doubt if the previous owner center tapped it. Can I get away with replacing
>>> >just one battery? 6TLs in my area are near $150.
>>> >Regards,
>>> >Kenny
>>> >
>>> >Kenneth Engle
>>> >Loxahatchee FL
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