Hi Lee and All,
--- Lee Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> jerry dycus wrote:
> >> During my overcharging experience, I got
> potassium hydroxide on my
> >> skin, and had it there for almost a minute. A
> equivilant amount of
> >> PbLA electrolyte would have eaten a hole in me.
I didn't say this, I agree with you below.
>
> Nonsense. The sulfuric acid in a lead-acid battery
> is dilute. It
> certainly won't eat a hole in your skin, no matter
> how long it is
> present. Your only symptom would be red skin, like a
> sunburn.
>
> First, you can get the aluminum painted or anodized.
> Jon "Sheer" Pullen wrote:
> > The H2 problem isn't that bad anyway. LA batt acid
> does the same thing.
This was my screw up , not Jon's. 3 lashes with a
battery strap for me ;-).
Good editing really pays off in these long
threads. It gets really hard telling who from whom.
jerry dycus
>
> Not to aluminum; it is pretty much inert to sulfuric
> acid. But it will
> attack steel, copper, zinc, and other metals,
> liberating hydrogen in the
> process.
> --
> Lee A. Hart Ring the bells that still
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