AN ACCUMULATOR HINT
During the last year or so the designs of accumulators have been wonderfully improved, and for those who own one of the modern types this hint will be of no value. There must be many readers, though, who still have old accumulators in use, and to those the following remarks may be of interest. The rubber stopper fitted to the old type of battery is surely a most elusive thing. You take the accumulator to the charging station with the stopper in place, but when it is returned you are told it has been mislaid. Perhaps you replace it with a small cork, and, having drilled a hole to act as an air vent, you think your trouble solved until you take it out again to be charged. What a mess! The hole has become blocked, and the acid has frothed up and overflowed. To prevent this sort of thing occurring call into the local garage and buy a piece of h.t. sparking plug cable. Cut half an inch off and withdraw the centre wires. This leaves a nice clean hole, and will be found to act quite suitably as a vent plug.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIII, Issue 107, 19 April 1933, Page 11
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