[500 Magnum Nut]

Whenever I change a battery in the car, truck or whatever, I always apply a nice coating of petroleum jelly around the cables and battery connections. This will keep the battery cables free from corrosion.
I even done this to the bike right after I got it, I like nice clean connections!

 

[Forester]

Yup, good advice. My Dad showed me that when I was a wee boy. :mrgreen:

 

[Guest]

Anyone remember using baking soda to clean up the top of a old battery - before the sealed units became available. Or leaving copper pennys on the top to nuetralize the acid that leaked...

Man, I'm dating how old I am...

giz

 

[Forester]

Don't remember the penny idea but my dad cleaned the batteries and terminals with baking soda all the time.

 

[takedeadaim]

Many years ago, a lady came out of a grocery store and her car would not turn over. She opened the hood and pulled out a can of Coka Cola from her grocery bag. She poured the Coke on her battery connections, waited a few minutes, started the car and drove off.

Kirt

 

[DHENRY]

Baking soda (IMHO) ranks right up there with miracle drugs! :ymparty:
It's not only a battery-terminal cleaner, but the best cure for indigestion there ever was, a super tooth-brushing material, and I guess it works pretty well in the kitchen, too. :lol:
Don

 

[photohause]

I recall all of those methods.
Once I was jumping another car
with a bad ground cable -
couldn't make it happen...
then I moved the car so both
bumpers were touching -
Vroom, vroom!
Chromed bumpers - really dating myself.

 

[Guest]

You old guys. Next thing you know is that you all will be telling us about the time when you hooked up a model T coil to the car and shocked your buddy while hiding inside! :lol: Hello to all! B-)

 

[Ron Honner]

I still use baking soda on my battery terminals. I pour vinegar on the sola to really make it bubble. Then I rinse it off and when dry, I also do the Vaseline trick.

I am an old phart too!

 

[Frank V]

The Coka Cola trick will work. Frank

 

[straightshooter1]

+1 for the coca cola. Learned that working at my Dad's Mobil Station back in the late 50s, very early 60s.

Still use it.

Bob

 

[onenut58]

Coca cola will cut road film on your windshield and dissolve dried bugs to.

 

[spearcrow]

Baking soda and coke...to what...what are you ole fellas talking about..

 

[wildfiresrozes]

l;jmfo;
Smartypants. LoL.

Nice to know that the coke works with dried bugs on the glass, too! Those things irritate me to no end!

 

[MOONDAWG]

Pour a bottle in your toilet and it'll clean out the "ring around the collar" in the bowl too. okfvnail

 

[Mickey D]

No Sh!t?