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car battery acid
« on: 14 November 2011, 10:57:17 pm »
Stuuupid question time again. I bought a battery for the project bike and it was delivered in double quick time. But without acid - is this normal? If so where am I meant to buy the acid?
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #1 on: 14 November 2011, 11:06:07 pm »
go to a bike / care shop or chemist stay should be able to help and yes
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #2 on: 14 November 2011, 11:24:34 pm »
I thought I would try to find out for you, so I went to the pub and asked about for someone to buy acid off. I think I remember getting some, but then one of those pink, floating barstools engaged me in conversation while everyone in the pub started talking swahili. I tried to remember why I was there, but 12 penguins stole my trousers and now Im made of rubber...
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #3 on: 14 November 2011, 11:39:56 pm »
Thanks Jon - pub it is then
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #4 on: 15 November 2011, 07:39:36 am »
:rollin @Jon.

Hate to say it, but you tried Halfrauds?
Other option is find a decent wee independent repair place and ask them.
Worst case, Kwik Fit.
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #5 on: 15 November 2011, 10:00:43 pm »
Any branch of J&S accessories...
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #6 on: 15 November 2011, 10:31:46 pm »
I thought they had dry acid in and you just had to add distilled water. Hate to ask but have you read the destructions?

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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #7 on: 16 November 2011, 07:46:12 am »
Quote from: Just Anne on 15 November 2011, 10:31:46 pm
Hate to ask but have you read the destructions?

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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #8 on: 16 November 2011, 09:16:20 am »
All batteries are sold "dry charged". Just add deionized (cold boiled or distilled) water. They charge.
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #9 on: 16 November 2011, 06:33:02 pm »
Instructions indeed - where would the fun in that be
(I did have a little peek and acid is needed) Halfrauds say no - so I may have to look a little further. Thanks all
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #10 on: 16 November 2011, 10:05:16 pm »
Sorry, clearly you haven't yet reached the point where all else has failed :b

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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #11 on: 19 November 2011, 10:38:35 pm »
If you haven't already found some try this.         http://www.mandp.co.uk/productinfo/901423/Spares/Batteries/Economy/Battery-Acid-Pack      :thumbup
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #12 on: 19 November 2011, 11:29:13 pm »
Great find thanks
 
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #13 on: 20 November 2011, 05:38:05 pm »
 
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All batteries are sold "dry charged". Just add deionized (cold boiled or distilled) water. They charge.
    :rollin What colour is the sky in your world???   Have you ever handled any 'dry' sulphuric acid?? . Its called 'oil of vitriol' and it behaves like the 'alien blood' in the movie.   You need to add acid to a dry battery.
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #14 on: 20 November 2011, 06:33:23 pm »
Who on earth supplies a wet battery without the acid anyway?  You either buy a sealed, filled battery or a dry one that should come with a bottle of acid.

and why are you using a wet battery anyway and not a sealed one?
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #15 on: 12 February 2012, 09:20:25 pm »
battery acid = h2so4 + h2o
take out the water and leave h2so4 - hydrogen sulphate.
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Re: car battery acid
« Reply #16 on: 13 February 2012, 05:58:42 pm »
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take out the water and leave h2so4 - hydrogen sulphate.

That's not quite how battery acid works ... Hydrogen Sulphate is the "alien blood" that I described above. Its tricky stuff to handle (water boils on contact with it) and you can easily use it to make a nice variety of high explosives  :evil  (gun cotton, for example).
They don't put it in dry batteries.
 
They do however come "dry charged" which means that the plates contain oxide and lead in the right places.
Add acid - you get a charged battery.
Add water - you get a paperweight.
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