Posted by redforlife on May 10, 2022 at 20:48:07 from (174.210.166.198):
In Reply to: Battery cable question posted by Tractorcedric on May 10, 2022 at 19:47:35:
I have taken the bolt completely out. Pry the clamp apart (where the bolt smashes it together where it can't smash any further). Pry that far enough apart, that you can get a file in between. And then commence to filing off as much as you like. Since it is led your filing off, it files off pretty easy. Don't take long. Put it back on. It should tighten back up on the post. If not, you didn't file enough off.
If the clamp breaks trying to pry it apart for the file, it's probably time for the trash then. Or recycle.
One battery post is bigger than the other. Make sure your not trying to use a cable for the big post, on the small post. The cables are made different, according to which size post they were made to fit.
And one more thing. Since some of the earlier stuff (pre 1965 or so) was positive ground, it's possible to run into cables that will be the wrong color for what they fit. If you run into a red cable, that fits the negative post of a battery, that cable was made for a positive ground system. Like wise, a black cable fitting the positive post. It was made for a positive ground system.
Now, if you got your mind wrapped around all of that so far, you can go to a place that carries new cables for both systems, and buy new cables that will fit the way they are suppose to, and be of the right color. But if your dealing with a bunch of odds and ends stuff you just happened to have at home, and who knows where it came from, your just going to have to live with whatever color it is. It might very well be the wrong color, for what you are trying to get it to fit. Because, that's going back to the whole positive/negative ground thing. Putting a cable on the wrong system.
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