[Vwdiesel] Battery talks for beginners # 2.

[H . Hagar.]

So where do you dumpster dive to find nickel steel and ni-cad batteries?
This serviceable- rebuildiable thing has me interested.
-James

Warning from Hagar :     James Hansen ,Loren and ALL   Nicads are addictive like
a VW diesel Rabbit .---no need to warn Sandy Cameron he is hooked line and sinker.

Yes Sandy Cameron dump electrolyte and replace with freshly made stuff
every 40 years ---needed or NOT.    The oil in NiFe batteries is a shield for the electrolyte
so that it does not absorb  Carbon Dioxide. ----It forms Carbonates that demish capacity
of the cells.

Buy  Potassium Hydroxyde flakes and mix with water to about 1.2 Spg. ---yes it is critical
for Cold War  effectiveness.(use distilled water only)

For SAFETY get a pound of Boric Acid  keep handy while handling  electrolyte.

Alkaline battries have passed the 100 year service life  ---name me a Lead Acid that did 50 years ?
having problems ?   bet your ass you do.

Sorry Sandy Cameron ---not to rain on your parade  ---BUT those NiFe you got ?
does not look like  --- 400 AmpHour. --.

I said the back side of the coin ?  I mentioned Hight maintenance and low Effeciency ---BUT I 
forgot to mention  --very expensive to get NEW.

My last dumpster NiFe   ?   It was ok ---exept holes in a cell case ---from outside  --elctrolysys.
(improper installation)
My left arm became lame so I was unable to get it home.  ---- I personally phoned  NiFe Canada
and they said a replacement (just the cells)  was 50 000 Dollars Canadian fob Toronto.(about 1985)

James Hansen  if it is still there I may get it for you  ---cost to you ?  a drum of Canola.

It may have gone to China --so  do not disconnect the Hydro just yet.

It sat there not being used for many years. ---- kind of BIG.

More on finding Nicads  later.

BUT they are all over the place -----mostly in BIG Mills and Mines. ---and Junc Shops.

Loren I saw the pictures from Ebay----  do not buy.   Anybody who say add water and charge ?
do NOT know Edison  batteries.

NiCads ? where did they start ?  ---Sweden 1900. ---a guy by the name Jungner.     But it took
the Germans to really get it going 1930 to 1945 ----enter Hagar   ----I got hold of the best
cindered cells   German Nicads at the Kastrup Airbase.------ an American copy can most likely
be found on MARS. -----------incredible battery.

I had (have?) a German walkie talky  --throat mike  nicad mattery and build in hand crank
generator .----WOW  ---- 50 below outside Stalingrad 1943  --your cell phone could call Hitler ?
not a chance --hell the battery runs out on the street of the big Apple in summertime.

So there you are in a snow drift ?  all you have to do is crank that handle to the meter
shown fully charged.----and call for HELP.  --need water to top up ?  smelt some snow.

By the way HELP is NOT coming.

To think that Hagar got unlimeted access to all that incredible technology   exactly
60 years ago --come may 05  ? scary  ---scary I tell you. how much longer ?
pisses me right off. ----the MOON ? without it ? not a chance. Both the Ruskies and the yankees
learned  A LOT and fast. ---- Sputnik ?  without German input ?  are you kidding ?
a snowballs hope in HELL.

Admiring the ENEMY ?  ---yeah kind of sick ---but that is the truth..
 In May 1945 there I sat in the cocpit of a German twin ready to go I could see those
cannon shells in the middle of the cocpit floor ----in the breech. Real shiny --looked like
20 mm stuff .   10 years later ?  I would have started the thing and taken off
for a bit of   skylarking. --------------like the Danish mechanic for DDL who stole one
an shubbed off for sweden. ---right in front of the Germans. A Dane stealing a German 
bomber  ? yeah and a Dane and friends taking a German SUB to sweden.-----on the
surface ok ?.--------I personally went on board that sub(?) later back in Denmark. Just a
small piece of shit ----training sub ?..

Not a WOLF.

Hagar.

PS :  like I said you can't get around my 1945 tales.   Nicads or Not.