Re: [SilverStreak] Newbie battery question

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Protective coatings like grease should be applied AFTER the connection is 
made. If grease is applied before the connection is made, it may interfere 
with the contact.
At Walmart you will find both deep discharge cycle and combination 
starting/deep cycle batteries that have both wingnut and post terminals. 
Other suppliers have them too.
Al

-- "Eddie" <Eddie@Huffstetter.com> wrote:

Bev,
Don't get hung up on a battery with screw-bolt posts. Any regular car 
battery will do. Just go to the automotive rack and there you will find 
inexpensive post terminal lugs that fit on a car battery regular post and 
have the bolts on them with the wing nuts. You do need to make sure that 
any paint inside the post lug is completely removed and shiny. The battery 
posts need to also be shiny. Grease the battery posts and the lugs when 
sliding them on. The grease keeps them from ever corroding. Use surgical 
gloves as all is messy. Use any kind of grease including Vaseline and put 
liberally. 
When connecting your trailer to the post lugs, use grease liberally on the 
bolts and the wire lugs. Again this stops the deterioration for a 
maintenance free installation.

Wal-Mart and all places sell regular post and side post batteries. All also 
sell DT batteries. The DT stands for Dual Terminal. DT batteries cost 
nothing more and give you extra connection places, now having top and side 
connectors. You will find that handy and useful, so get a DT. On side 
terminal connection batteries, you can find the little bolts that fit the 
sides in the same selection area on a blister-pak card. They can make 
connecting really simply and handy. If you need the large wire lugs for 
the 5/16 and 3/8 inch sized bolt lugs, they are also on a card on a rack. 
You can use pliers and a hammer to crimp them closed if you don't have a 
crimp block tool. Again, use grease on everything at and connecting to 
the battery, or the natural gases emitting from the battery will ruin 
everything.

Even the small Wal-Mart you describe usually has a automotive area in 
the store where you buy bulbs, mats, etc. There you will usually find 
a rack with batteries for cars, golf carts, garden tractors, etc. They 
will have a big yellow battery. It will cost about $70, plus disposal 
fees and taxes. 
Add $10 for absence of a core, and they will tax that absence also. Is 
a rip!

Get a old dead battery from a neighbor or friend if you don't have one 
and avoid that high core charge.

-Eddie-
Houston, TX

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bev Harris" <zia@ix.netcom.com>
To: <sslist@tompatterson.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:56 AM
Subject: Re: [SilverStreak] Newbie battery question


> Eddie,
>
> Thanks!!  I was certainly headed in the cheapest, biggest direction 
> -- but that's the kind of consumer I am.
>
> I did not think Walmart; I plan on going there today so I'll check 
> what our little Walmart (no auto service section, no tire install, etc) 
> has.
>
> Bev