WATCH ACCUMULATOR

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXXII, Issue 2801, 16 November 1931, Page 6

WATCH ACCUMULATOR

Don’t neglect your accumulator in summer time. Just because it lies neatly hidden away under its cover and seems a harmless straightforward component, many motorists give it little or no attention from year’s end to year’s end. Now if there is one thing more than another that docs bring on premature senile decay in accumulators it is allowing the acid level in the cells to sink too low. On hot summer days evaporation takes its toll, and unless the cells are topped up every now and then the solution sinks below the level of the plates, which show their thirstiness by sulphating. As soon as sulphating sets in, the capacity of the accumulator begins to be reduced, and if neglect continues a time will come when it won’t hold its charge properly. Topping up must be done with distilled water, obtainable from any chemist. Don't use tap water, for this is invariably full of impurities, which may give rise to local action on the plates with dire results. And rdmember that it is only the water part of the electrolyte that evaporates, so that there is no need to add acid. When topping up, remove the vent plug of each cel) and pour in just enough distilled water to ensure that the plates are well covered.