Battery headache

[Willowbilly3]

I'm sure a lot of you know about this but I'll share it again. Aspirin to revive a tired battery. One in each cell.
The aging battery in my ghetto cruiser was getting real weak. It barely started the last few days. I dropped an aspirin in each cell this morning and drove around on errands for about an hour. Now it's starting like a healthy battery again. I have done this on about a dozen batterys in the last couple years and saved most of them to get another years service. Just use half a tablet in smaller batterys like garden tractors and motorcycles.

 

[Gastrick]

Really? I've never heard that one. I want to try it something now. I wonder what ingredient in Aspirin makes it work.

 

[sgtpontiac]

acetylsalicylic acid

this is from the Readers Digest......
Revive dead car batteries If you get behind the wheel only to discover that your car’s battery has given up the ghost — and there’s no one around to give you a jump — you may be able to get your vehicle started by dropping two aspirin tablets into the battery itself. The aspirin’s Revive dead car batteries If you get behind the wheel only to discover that your car’s battery has given up the ghost — and there’s no one around to give you a jump — you may be able to get your vehicle started by dropping two aspirin tablets into the battery itself. The aspirin’s acetylsalicylic acid will combine with the battery’s sulfuric acid to produce one last charge. Just be sure to drive to your nearest service station.

 

[dmw56]

From what I've it's a very short lived solution. Years ago you used to be able to buy stuff (acid) from the auto stores to rejuvinate you battery. Besides, most new batteries are sealed so you can't add anything to them anyway.

Did you know the bark, leaves and sap of the Willow tree Genus Salix contain salicin, a substance that chemically resembles aspirin and is metabolized into salicylic acid in the human body. Cultures for thousands of years have used this for headaches, pain and fever relief.

 

[sgtpontiac]

You just never know what info you might get....

From what I've it's a very short lived solution. Years ago you used to be able to buy stuff (acid) from the auto stores to rejuvinate you battery. Besides, most new batteries are sealed so you can't add anything to them anyway.

Did you know the bark, leaves and sap of the Willow tree Genus Salix contain salicin, a substance that chemically resembles aspirin and is metabolized into salicylic acid in the human body. Cultures for thousands of years have used this for headaches, pain and fever relief.

from subscribing to the RRR.... and ya'll thought it was all about Rat Rods!! And no, I did not know that about the Willow Tree.... [cl