Changing batteries

Thanks to all for responses...Got some ideas to work with (doing it naked is not one of them :R)...

Busskipper wrote:

ADAD437 wrote:
pay someone to do it.

Sounds like the solution for the OP - If you don't know or Can't do it just use the old CC.

With Batteries they (the seller) will usually install for FREE.

JMHO,

its a 1.5 hour job in my diesel pusher LOL at thinking someone would install free (I wish)
as far as acid goes I have changed batterys in various vehicles my whole life and never ever saw a acid problem that was worth worrying about.If your worried take a lite water spray over them.then bombard them with baking soda,let sit for 15 minutes, flush with water and your more than good to go

You are all working Way Too Hard.

Typical installations insure that any battery will be covered in a coating of sulfuric acid. The only real cure is to hide it inside something impermeable and marginally acid proof - Like a trash bag.

A lot depends on how much you will have to do with the battery after it is removed. Basically, it all works like this:
Get gloves and a trash bag per battery. (For 4 & 8D, make sure the bag is large enough.) You may also want packing tape.
Prepare an landing area (LZ) that will safely support the battery and cover it with the open bag. The LZ should be close enough that you can get the battery there while holding it clear of your clothing.
Lift the battery and set it on the plastic.
Deglove (Remember the outside of the gloves are "hot").
Wrap the battery and if you have to go far, secure the plastic with the packing tape.
Now you can carry the plastic wrapped battery without fear.
Toss the gloves.

I did a lot of boat work before the depression, and most for performance cruisers (retired racing sloops) that always had batteries (bad batteries) in impossible locations with all kinds of finished interior in the way. I fortunately learned how to do this early. We almost always had to rig to get the 4 and 8Ds off and the new back aboard.

Matt

ADAD437 wrote:
pay someone to do it.

Sounds like the solution for the OP - If you don't know or Can't do it just use the old CC.

With Batteries they (the seller) will usually install for FREE.

JMHO,

pay someone to do it.

ArchHoagland wrote:
I've got a couple pairs of dungarees that I wear for changing oil and filter, batteries, transmission fluid and painting. They look pretty sad.

By the way...for you young whipper snappers, dungarees are what we called blue jeans in the olden days when I was in the Navy when the ships were wood and the men were steel.

Same here except after 13 years on the outside and 20 since I wore dungarees I'm down to the last of the coveralls that still have a few blotches of haze gray paint and moly-b grease stains on them. Might have to move into the wash khakis.

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Pick them straight up. How are you getting acid on you?

Wear wool.

Gdlow wrote:
For all of you that do your own work, how do you go about changing them without getting battery acid on your clothes. Last time I did it required about 12 patches on my pants

Go Naked :o

JimR