Battery recharge

BhB

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I have read that a battery can be bought back to life by removing the acid and refilling with Epsom salt and recharging. Does the Epsom salt solution create new acid or should the Epsom salt be removed and refilled with acid solution. The opinion is that Epsom salt repair doesn't work. I am planning to try it with golf cart batteries.
 
I was always told that when a battery is weak add aspirin to each cell and charge and it will bring it back to life. Don't know, never tried it but have talked to people who have and they said it works. One of my tractors has a bad one now that will only hold a charge for a few days when it is warm and only a few hours when really cold out. Guess I should try it!
 
Over the decades I have mess with cars trucks tractor and motorcycles I have yet to find one single thing that will bring a bad battery back to life and I have tried a good many ways. I've tried the Epsom salts, aspirin, Emptying them then filling with distilled water charge then empty and flush and fill with new acid and none have ever helped on bit
 
Hello bhb,

Another old wife's tale. If the battery is old enough to start loosing capacity, it is time to get another one. Battery plates are like fingers, ones they lose a part or piece, it will not grow back,

Guido.
 
(quoted from post at 10:43:12 01/08/18) I have read that a battery can be bought back to life by removing the acid and refilling with Epsom salt and recharging. Does the Epsom salt solution create new acid or should the Epsom salt be removed and refilled with acid solution. The opinion is that Epsom salt repair doesn't work. I am planning to try it with golf cart batteries.

I have tried it. Doesn't work.
 
Don't know about that but the one thing that I read (I believe it was a post on YT) that DID work was tipping the battery about 45 degrees and 'bumping' it on the ground or floor. This wasn't a 'makes it new again' deal, just made it so you'd get a bit more life from the battery and it usually works. I figure it just knocks the sulfates off the top of the plates and removes the 'shorts'. :?
 
When you tip it over to empty it, it will often take the plate material that settles to the bottom over time and short out the rest of the plates. Not good.
 
2 things i hate; flat tires and dead batteries. My rule is charge the battery once, because maybe I left the lights on, but if it goes dead a second time, I buy new batteries. Problem over. The older I get, the less I want to to play around with acid batteries or change a tire especially if Im in my Sunday best.
 
the reason lead acid batteries go bad is the eventual wearing away of the plates on which the chemical reaction occurs. additives do not and can replace those metals, whether in an internal combustion engine or a battery.
 
The only worth while advice here is replace the battery. Some batteries can be rebuilt but not by adding chemicals. Save yourself trouble; install a new one.
 
Directions: Put aspirin in mouth and chase it with a glass of water,then go buy a new battery. Tryed aspirin in bat.{in fact 2 per cell-if one is good 2 are better},didn't work for me either.
 
You can try all the tricks in the trade, but the only thing that repairs a battery (to a degree) is a charger with a desulfation mode. This can and does remove the sulfation that shorts out cells and/or deforms them, causing them to fail by self discharge. Sulfation is the crystallization of lead (that is lead sulfate) forming deposits that are not the same shape as the original plate. Wikipedia is a reliable choice for this info. Jim
 

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