Well I gotta disagree on two points. One, I've been using the "spray on pretty stuff" for years with no issue (I figure your boys must be doing something wrong). Two, the stuff looks like chit, IMO, so what's the point in that?

Oh well. To each his own.

 

I heard that the ancient Sumarians used a mixture of bear fat and weasel urine on their battery terminals, so I'm gonna try that!

 

I thought 12 year olds needed permission to be on this site? This comment is unnecessary, very offending. Especially, if there are any bears or weasel's on this site........

 

Shoot, I forgot the bear fat part.

 

For sure! :)
Yeah, make your case for "your way" and let the reader decide. :)
And it's not about hearing back from them what they decide either.

The Karo Syrup idea sounded interesting. :)
And of course "Rick's" idea was funny as anything. :)

I like the motor oil idea the best so far tho. ;)

Nothing to pay extra for, nothing to "chase after" and it friggin' works.
It's something you have in hand already when you change your oil and
the last few drops in a emptied bottle couldn't be easier (IMO) either.

It took me 20 years to convince my own dad to even friggin -try- motor oil.

Are you spraying it on the bottom side of the clamp before putting it on
the battery? I've never seen anyone do it that way, (me neither) I've only
seen where guys just spray the clamps while they are in place and the
corrosion forms underneath.

I've always wondered if the stuff would actually work if it were "done right". :)

"pretty" = red paint
As opposed to an ugly dirty oil mess like motor oil does it. :/

Alvin in AZ

 

Nope never had the nerve to spray the pieces while they were apart. Just made sure it was liberally coated, getting under the clamp as best as I could. And that's were the FUGLY comes from. Little purple blobby messes all over my nice clean engine compartments.

Maybe you have a harsher battery environment then mine?

 

Hmmm... yeah maybe that's it! :)

A signal maintainer's district was about 45 miles, time-wise at least,
we spent most of the time on the dirt road along next to the tracks
that (if you were on the mainline) would get bladed ~twice a year.

That's along the mainline, when I was at Hayden Junction AZ the road
got bladed once in 8 years. LOL:) Man was it nice right up until it rained
to beat hell a few weeks later and washed it back out again, then certain
places were worse than ever. :)

Anyway, would drive enough to burn about a tank of gas a day. :)

That was where the first time a guy cleaned my battery up and sprayed
the red stuff on it. I let it go until corrosion formed on the unsprayed
parts then showed him how crummy that pretty-spray-stuff was. :) He
offered to clean it etc but I told him that wasn't the reason I showed 'im,
I wanted him to see that oil was mas mahor.

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Just got done going south of Animas NM for Thanksgiving, closer to the
Mexican border, the pavement stops just south of Animas. :) The last 8
mile stretch to the house takes ~20 minutes.

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I live on a dirt road that is not gov't maintained and haven't lived on a
gov't maintained road since I left Sacramento at the very end of '79.

Before Sacramento, Bowie AZ didn't have but two paved roads in it.

One of them is the old US-80 that got by-passed by I-10. On cool mornings
I'd dodge the dogs sleeping on the warm pavement out in the middle of it. :)
Get there early enough in the morning and there would be dogs sleeping on
San Simon's piece of US-80 too. LOL :) That was the other big city on my
district.

Alvin in AZ

 

I like Alvins comments and may have to try something like that, but I use dielectric grease on anything electrical (light bulbs, fuses, batteries, grounds, light bulbs in my house lamps) and it works great.

I use the green and red felts on my batteries but now I am going to soak them with a few drops of motor oil to make them even better.

 

It gets my vote. I love it and it is inexpensive.

 

I'm thinking it's not as messy as motor oil. :)
Motor oil keeps spreading out and at some
point (for looks) needs to be cleaned off.

Anybody used both?

Alvin in AZ

 

Yeah, I have good luck on some cars and bad luck on others. I'm gonna give this stuff a shot. I hate working on cars in the winter though!

 

Where are you located? I am in Northern Illinois and it is about 30 degrees and a inch or so of snow on the ground.

Now it's back to the garage

 

I HATE the spray on junk, it gets all over and gets on your shirt when you just happen to lean in and look at something. My cousin sprayed it on my 66 ONCE, and then I chewed him out and spent the next few months cleaning it off. I have worked in the phone/cellular/wireless industry stacking towers and what not, and we use NO-OX for any and all connections. Battery stacks for back up, electrical connections, grounds, you name it. I have been spreading that on my batteries for years and have no problems.
On the motor oil side, my dad was/is a chemist, and when he would check the oil in our vehicles, he would slide the dipstick thru his thumb and finger and drop/rub it onto the battery terminals (he told me why it works chemically a LONG time ago, I have since forgotten the exact reason! ). We never had any issues on any of our vehicles, and I did that forever until I started climbing towers and came across no-ox. I do use the felts, just cause they look pretty, and hey for .99 cents, WTH

 

Ohio and it's about the same.

 

Hey 78 FORD I only saw one response on cleaning them this is something I was told about a long time ago and it works great for cleaning the terminals Is nothing other than good ole Coca Cola the real stuff not the diet or that fake stuff from walmart just pour it over the terminal and viola it eats the corrosion right off of them makes you wonder why we drink this stuff you ought to see what it does to raw meat just cheap advice.