Patching Battery Case Hole ?

Mac · June 28, 2007, 07:03:13 PM

I managed to put a hole in the bottom edge of a battery (black case). :oops:
Nobody better ask how. :evil:

The battery has good life left; I have PC-7; I have JB Weld; I have ordinary 2 part epoxy and I have some acid leftover from a couple of motorcycle battery "kits".

Has anybody had any success with this repair?

donsrods · June 28, 2007, 10:34:14 PM

Someone may come up with a good fix for you, but I think I would bite the bullet and buy a new battery. Your fix might hold for a while, but then fail and put that nasty acid in places you don't want it.

Seems like every time I try some repair like this, it backfires and ends up costing me more .

You might call one of the local battery rebuilders (most communities have guys who build batteries for a variety of uses, forklifts, etc. They would know for sure.

Don

Mac · June 28, 2007, 11:43:06 PM

Yeah, I too can forsee a leaky repair being my 2nd bonehead move - the 1st being holing the battery to begin with.

I'll prollaby try the fix and use the bat in my boy's `74 Charger basket case which is months (minimum) from the road.

phat rat · June 29, 2007, 08:37:24 AM

Well you said don't ask how so I won't. But did the fan survive?

donsrods · June 29, 2007, 04:11:25 PM

Quote from: "phat rat"Well you said don't ask how so I won't. But did the fan survive?

Runaway electric drill maybe?

Don

UGLY OLDS · June 29, 2007, 05:33:47 PM

Gee....a "battery drain plug"...Soooo much easier to do the 3000 mile acid & filter change...Sounds like something Dave would think up... :?: :?:

Mac · June 29, 2007, 10:20:43 PM

OK, OK

Looks like the best I'll get (or deserve) from this thread is humor.

No, no drills were involved and there's no fan, at least in the conventional sense.

The recipe calls for a VW Karmann Ghia (battery in the engine bay)
a short angle iron battery "corral" instead of proper hold down and a washboard dirt road.
The "angel on my sholder" part of it is that the washboard road is where I call home and the cell was still draining and making itself obvious when I parked.
Man, eloctrolyte steaming off a hot muffler kinda gags ya. :cry:

Dave · June 30, 2007, 08:25:11 AM

Quote from: "UGLY OLDS"Gee....a "battery drain plug"...Soooo much easier to do the 3000 mile acid & filter change...Sounds like something Dave would think up... :?: :?:

I havent done anything that stupid in over a week...
Dave

slocrow · June 30, 2007, 08:38:05 AM

Quote from: "jusjunk"I havent done anything that stupid in over a week...
Dave

It must be that Jackson water.................

donsrods · June 30, 2007, 10:39:54 AM

Yeah, we NEVER do anything dumb like that.

Well, not since the time I threw a few bags of sand in the trunk of my '53 Studebaker for traction in the wintertime. There was ONE SCREW missing from the fuel sender, and the bags ruptured, so over time sand trickled down and into the tank.

When the car finally quit running, not only was the tank and all lines filled with sand, but when I pulled the top off the carb, it looked like a beach inside there. :oops: :oops:

No, we never do anything dumb.

Don

UGLY OLDS · June 30, 2007, 10:51:37 AM

With the price of batteries & the possible "carnage" that can result from a failed fix, perhaps it's best to say "oops" & replace it....

( And warn your son to never--ever mount a battery like that again :!: :!:

)

Mac · June 30, 2007, 11:23:57 AM

Quote from: "UGLY OLDS"With the price of batteries & the possible "carnage" that can result from a failed fix, perhaps it's best to say "oops" & replace it.... ( And warn your son to never--ever mount a battery like that again :!: :!: )

Uuhh....yeah, "my son". I'm goin with that.

Jbird · June 30, 2007, 12:38:53 PM

If that Ghia battery "box" is like most I've seen. A little more acid isn't gonna hurt much.

If only one cell is holed, let the juice run out and pretty soon you'll have a ten volt.

I'm just full of bright ideas. I was following a Baja bug down the freeway a few? years ago and watched his battery fall through the floor pan, before I could get him stopped the pavement worn off one corner of the battery. I'm glad I was in front of him when the acid hit the road.I gave him a fence board I had in the back of my truck. We lifted the battery back into the car wedged the board under it and away he went. Jbird

Dave · June 30, 2007, 03:18:40 PM

Quote from: "slocrow"
Quote from: "jusjunk"I havent done anything that stupid in over a week...
Dave
It must be that Jackson water.................

Next time i see you im taking your camera

If you guys look in the other post at the pic just read my lips if you look close im sayin HOLE..
Dave

I cant believe i didnt let sue drive back to the motel

what a dumb azzzzzzzz

Rayvyn · June 30, 2007, 09:18:25 PM

Quote from: "jusjunk"
If you guys look in the other post at the pic just read my lips if you look close im sayin HOLE..

Nah. I was looking at the picture and thinking HOLE...

Gotta run...