[Vwdiesel] batteries and charging/jumping

[mikel at buncombe.main.nc.us]

Hi,

If I was needing to do something like that, being the cheap-skate that I
am, I'd take a piece of white plastic mudflap (because it'd be quite
durable, and shouldn't be electrically conductive as a black one might be)
and mount a 5/16 or 3/8" nut 'n bolt for each terminal. Figure a way to
mount it so it's unlikely that something conductive will bridge the
terminals, or the mounting hardware to one of the terminals.

Or, if I wanted to make things prettier and had time to wait while
accumulating materials, I'd keep my eyes peeled for derelict electric
forklifts at the scrap yard, and scrounge some of those Anderson
connectors,
probably the 200 amp ones would be fine as long as you're not
plugging/unplugging it under load.

  The wire on 'em probably won't be the length you need, so scrounge some
split-bolt connectors while your there (some electricians call 'em bug
splices), also get some old bicycle innertubes.  Wrap the split-bolts
tightly with a one inch strip of innertube until there are no sharp
corners and no exposed metal, then wrap that in a few wraps of
electrical tape,