buying battery acid??

brutus49DC · Apr 15, 2016

I was in a farm store the other day and a guy in his late 50's or early 60's (with a pony tail-SNIP!) was trying to buy a bottle of acid they had. He said he needed it to fill his tractor battery. The salesman told him all he needed was distilled water, he replied "that doesn't work" and if he were to pee in the cells it would do about as much good! I figure about the only times you need to buy acid is if you tipped a battery over and spilled some or if you are cooking meth.

Russ from MN · Apr 15, 2016

I think if you buy a wet cell MC battery online you need to find the acid locally. Another reason to buy an AGM battery, I just bought one and took it out of the box, put it in and started the bike!

Case Nutty 1660 · Apr 15, 2016

I used to stock it when I ran my repair shop, some of the stuff I sold came with dry charged batteries,, nothing uncommon and NO I did Not cook meth,,,

glennster · Apr 15, 2016

i didnt know they used battery acid for meth. i know they steal annhydrous to make it, and use gasoline and toilet bowl cleaner too. and then they eat that stuff???? sheesh....pass me a beer!!! wacky tabaccki dont sound so harmful now....

RayP(MI) · Apr 15, 2016

Have used it in the tanning of deer hides.

Greg1959 · Apr 15, 2016

RayP(MI)- Yup, I'm sitting here in my living room looking at a 5 gallon container of battery acid that I use for tanning coyote hides to make coats from.

BTW, I was wondering if someone would mention the 'acid' tanning of hides. Thanks

brutus49DC · Apr 16, 2016

Does anyone know how to read? He wanted it to top off a battery not to fill a dry one. Evaporation from charging (or overcharging)takes the water and leaves the acid so only water is needed to refill a battery. He wasn't tanning hides either.

Ken(Ark) · Apr 16, 2016

Evaporation from charging (or overcharging)takes the water and leaves the acid so only water is needed to refill a battery.

I have read that too but then I wonder why is my battery tray so rusty if it is just H2O . I don't know how to measure my battery acid to see if the sulfuric acid content is about 30% .

showcrop · Apr 16, 2016

(quoted from post at 05:59:33 04/16/16) Does anyone know how to read? He wanted it to top off a battery not to fill a dry one. Evaporation from charging (or overcharging)takes the water and leaves the acid so only water is needed to refill a battery. He wasn't tanning hides either.

Brutus, do you know how to read? OP said "fill a battery" he did not specify whether topping off or filling a dry one.

LP-Always · Apr 16, 2016

looks like you can not read what YOU printed. you said he needed to fill one!

farmer boy · Apr 17, 2016

I don't know if you need a license to buy it, but it is common. Any place that gets in dry cell batteries and fills them as they're sold will normally have a barrel of it.

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