Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1918-09-27

We heard man say the other day,
"Oh, | will store my battery In my
fruit cellar where IL can't freeze
When it needs charging | will put In
the car and run the engine" This
man will have a badly sulphated bat
terry next spring which will have to
be replaced or repaired next summer
Because he will not run the engine
twelve to twenty hours which it takes
to do battery much good in the win
ter, often two or three days are need
ed to fully charge a battery. He will
have to charge every week, which
will require lot of his good dollar an
hour time. And he will probably for
get to charge several weeks Maybe
go to Salt Lake for months trip and
let the battery get dry. A frozen bat
terry cannot be repaired He will
probably connect wires from his gen
orator in the car to the battery In the
cellar and charge it there. Probably
he will use lantern to go into the
cellar to see how his battery is charg-
ing and go to the hospital to think
over WHY he did not realize that the
fumes from a charging battery was
highly explosive. Also probably he
will have little spat with the cook
about spoiled vegetables which were
affected by the acid fumes. He may
also have new pair of pants or
shirt to buy because he got few
drops of acid on them which simply
ate holes in the material
Well! We are willing to bet he will
let us store his battery next winter
and say in the spring that he more
than got his moneys worth
II Your Battery is More Than Year
Old or II Won Have Used 1t
Hard This Summer
We will store your battery ABSO-
LUTELY FREE.
We will take 1t apart after treating
| it to reforming cealnsing test and
charge. Throw away the wood sepa-
rators as they are usually no good af-
ter the first season, and properly treat
| your plates so that they will not dry
hard or fall apart, then put them in
the jars and store for winter All
chemical action which would tend to
/ wear out the plates is stopped till the
battery is again rebuilt in the spring
When stored wet, this chemical ac-
ton is continuously acting to wear
out the plates. The action continues
as long as the plates are in the acid.
Even though there is no load placed
on the battery, such as lamps or other
uses Of electricity.
When reassembled in the spring,
with new separators, the owner gets
battery which he is sure will run him
for satisfactory period without caus-
ing him lot of trouble and expense.
III a
hard and abused during this first year
and 1t becomes necessary for him to
buy new one in the spring or shortly
after the driving season opens up, he
saves the cost of wet storage and can
apply that much plus reasonable al
lowance for his old battery on the
purchase price of a new one and can
have his order placed and the battery
ready for him when he wants 1t. 1t
has been predicted that next summer
the person who wants to buy bate
ries will have long waits and then
probably not get It, and If he does get
1t he will probably pay an added adj
vance over the price which he can buy
one at this fall, for spring delivery.
Payment In advance
Very few batteries will give con-
tinuOuB service thru two seasons
without having new separators put in
them. This often causes trouble by
the battery giving out just when you
need 1t the worst. Dry storage takes
care of that at a period when battery
manufacturers have a chance to catch
up with production and gives them all
the more chance to get lot of bate
ries out for Uncle Sam. Aslo your
worries are over as far as battery is
concerned. Rent batteries cost you
rs cents day and will prove an ex-