BATTERY. TERMINALS
, If battery terminals-are' not regularly cleaned, .corrosion may:;develop at a,rapid .pace.' and- ultimately lead' to the cable breaking offshort.v. Car owners., wi11,,-have, .noticed howia' green verdigris grows; around "the terminals. To guard against this-andr:the possible trouble which 'might'^'follow,;-a simple form----of.;;battery terminal: 'oiler ;has been • introduced; on' the ; Britiste market. ' It is a .miniature, oir tray:fitted beneath the ..term.ipal.on the -battery pillar. It is wick-lined, communicating with a wick in a small metal reservoir; A little engine oil is dropped hito the reservoir whence it spreads through the wick, beneath the terminal. The.;reservoir will last "for six months.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 28
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99BATTERY. TERMINALS Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 55, 6 March 1937, Page 28
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