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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...

I've never used those batteries but I used to get NiCad cells of similar design and chemistry that had cell oil on the surface floating there to prevent CO2 from reacting with the KOH in the cells.. Our cells fail because the monthly inspection says to check the SG of the electrolyte. It never...

How are you measuring that? Also 7 watts self heating at full load 2000w inverter. Not sure of that is significant. I was trained to touch everything during inspections. I know some fuses get hot, lots of things get hot, but unless things are surprising me with heat I generally don't worry about...

I'm too old for hookers or blow

I used to hide Co2 fire extinguishers in the garages. In the event of an electrical fire it was less mess to clean, but also if you have a run away diesel engine the best way to snuff it out is let it draw the Co2 into the engine and starve it of oxygen. Both a fast way to stop a potential...

$10,000? Weekend in Vegas..... Call it a solar convention. Seriously no idea.

Well before this unfortunate incident I have worried about battery fires. Years ago I worked on the Kiruna K1050E electric dump trucks. They had two stacks of NiCad batteries under the cab with a piece of plywood between the floor and the top of the batteries ( for reasons not known to me )...

I'm off topic and really want to apologize for this but I want to add some more about pressure lanterns white gas and low compression engines. I'm sure everyone here has heard of lead in gasoline. Back way back in the past gasoline was very hit and miss stuff. it was not refined to a very tight...

No don't do that. Octane is too low ( maybe an Onan LK or CCK with 5:1 heads could deal with it but its a bad idea with other sets ) When talking pressure lanterns gas generator is the vaporizer that turns liquid fuels into gas through vaporization and thermal cracking. This gas is then mixed...

All will burn gasoline as long as the tank does not have a red glyptal anti corrosion coating. Some will run better on gasoline.

Ontario rules. Yes the rodent thing has me wondering Pyro! Eat that lol

What is the equivalent? Can you use Teck or BX? armoured cables? Just some light reading that talks about Mechanical protection and wiring methods/ I am not personal familiar with the current rules... https://esasafe.com/assets/files/esasafe/pdf/Electrical_Safety_Products/Bulletins/64-4-4.pdf

I learned some Fin words from local kids growing up. One that sticks in my mind translates to "excrement head" Oh the wonders of multiculturalism in the modern age lol.

I was looking at 5 7 year old Sharp ND-240QCIBX in a local listing for 95 dollars each. First impression was thats not bad even if they have degraded 10% or so. But now I'm rethinking that. Maybe these are not such a good deal.

The Wisdom of Mr Natural!

At a local level small operators like the guy repairing the battery are mostly just making themselves sick and maybe the neighbours. But battery repair is a very common trade in many cities int he third world. Lots of small shops together can poison the ground water for a whole town. On an...

I work in an industrial facility that exceeds the US EPA lead emissions for a lead works. We are not even in the lead business, its just an OOPS that goes up the chimney... But they got permits to do this. I am hyper sensitive to the pollution from the green revolution because I am a part of...

Leave batteries intact in their cases. Bring to a proper recycler. There is so much lead slipping into the environment that its scary... Lead gas gone, lead paint strictly regulated. But Lead from Electrical equipment is increasingly being lost into the environment. Its bouncing around 1 USD...

Is that Significant?

I am aware of a few industrial process that are using XP computers. They are not connected to any networks, the operating system is very stable and my employer is so cheap if it cost a nickel to poo that would make us throw up... A sister plant up wind of mine is one of the most dangerous...

Jebus Crisis... How do you explain that to people?