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YA it can be. Used to be quite easy to just buy new acid and dump it old acid and not worry about the dumping part. Cottage on an island makes you think a bit more but I can remember the solution to waste oil was to pour it someplace if would soak into the ground to vanish... Attempts to...

The correct answer to that is call the toxic taxi. Back in the bush however thats not practical and it had to be neutralized with baking soda...

I sometimes got years out of old sets of used truck batteries. The secret was to not allow them to discharge too deep. All they had for a load was a handful of 25 and 40 watt 12 volt incandescent bulbs and now and then maybe a B&W TV for the ball game. Charging was a 5 hp Briggs and 130 amp...

Holy Shit! In Ontar-I-O big middle finger from the province that... These kinds of progressive grants tax breaks for home improvements make a real difference.

No one fixes things anymore. Now you change parts until it works. More and more you fix less and less, Eventually I will fix nothing at all and simply replace complete units...

I don't like that I rather not comment further

Mostly I'm giving you the gears. There are 3 or 4 different types of J fuse you can get that range form time delay to fast for protecting drives with large currents and high available faults.... Why I bring this up.... I remember these big exide battery chargers I used to fix I think they were...

Ya but what if he used a class J fuse? They blow pretty fast too.....

What if you used a Class J fuse?

I started having that problem in my early 50s. The flame still burned, but.... Ya know... Under pressure had trouble holding form....

I have a fluke clamp on that looks like that. I cant honestly tell you what model it is now. I give so little thought to this stuff. When they stop working I hand it into the toolman and he does something with it and I get a new one. Danger comes from being complacent. I catch myself sometimes...

I use one. They are consistent. As former navy you get it. PMs Written decades ago for a specific meter and that meter was a fluke 77 and no one wants to change the procedure because it was written for people that knew nothing about the process just how to tick boxes.. My favourite meter is a...

I don't like Anderson connectors because over time they loosen up and run hot. Flexable cables. I once had to wire some MCCs with a marine 313MCM flex that was wonderful stuff. But it was a weird cable size and I was using 350MCM lugs ( because i was told to do that ) and I used a pin crimper...

Fancy stuff I had.... Past tense an old timey resistance bridge for doing leads wingdings and connections. I don't recall the resolution on the meter but it needed calibration from time to time and this was never done in a timely manner so when people tell me resistance figures as low as you I...

Regular 1/2 sheet gypsum board has a fire rating of about an hour. You can get thicker boards and boards with 4 hour ratings. I think it might be wise to look into that for a battery room in a wood structure and its not that much more expensive than regular dry wall... An Ontario electrical...