Re: Water on positive battery terminal?

pws <pwshelton@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Leon van Dommelen wrote:
>
>> No. Drilling two holes too close to each other caused a problem,
>> since I could not put a screw in both to plug them up.
>>
>> Leon
>
>Ok, so drilling one or more single holes did not cause a problem. If we
>are going to be exact in our wording, wouldn't you at least agree that
>your act of taking a drill and using it on the rain gutter caused a problem?

No. My act of taking the drill again and drilling a hole right next
to it caused a problem.

>I am not ragging on you, I was just pointing out that attaching metal,
>rather than removing it, would probably be the better option here. Like
>I said, I haven't seen your setup. Would a flat mounting plate, welded
>in place with the mounting box attached, both fit above the battery? I
>am curious because I might go with this setup myself.

Sure, if the plate is not too thick, and there is no reason for it to be.

I did not think of having someone weld a plate to the gutter at the
time. And that would require having to trust someone I did not
know with my precious Bozo, and probably flake off the paint and
cause the rail to rust away.

It is much less effort and worry to just go BZZZT BZZZT, Ooops, too far back,
BZZZZT BZZZT, with a drill than finding a welder, negotiating the procedure,
going there, having car demolished, clutching head that nowadays can be
sunburned below the hair due to pulling out too much of it, drilling holes
in welded plate of steel which is hard enough steel to slip the drill to go
into the exterior paint, especially if you try to drill with the drill rotating
in the wrong direction, fixing damage to exterior paint with touch-up paint,
going to buy new drill bit for the one melted from too much drilling in the
wrong direction, finding drill instruction booklet to find out what position
of controls puts drill in the right direction, finding that welded plate is
sticking too far out, taking precious trunk space, that it must be sawed away
though steel is harder than tool steel used to manufacture hack saw blade,
taking out dremel tool and cutting blades, trying whether accidentally dropped
cutting blade can still be used, finding bandages, applying force to stop
bleeding

I am out of time. I will need to write the remaining 78% of this some
other time.

>Thanks,

Don't mention it,
Leon

>Pat

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