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MG Midget and Sprite General - Photo of why PROP is an Idiot/Moran !!!

So take a look at this photo ...and let me ask your opinion

Is this a case of Battry Worms or is it because I screwed (3) thats right THREE self taper screws into the side of the battry from the other side of the fire wall.

Are you freaken Kidding Me... Guess what MY next question is... oh you guys are so smart, How can you have read my mind..?

Besides buying a NEW battry... any ideas on how to fix it / rig it .

Luckly only one hole actually made it thur all the way and thats the top one.. the scratch is just surface and the 2 lower holes are only 1/2 way in..the hole dia is 1/8th inch...

My thinking is a plastic / nylon screw and some kind of sealer but what kind that would be battry acid resistant yet still stick to the plasic case... im thinking pitch tar because I know battrys where sealed with that stuff like 100 years ago

any thoughts or ideas guys ... thank you as always

Prop... If you must need it screwed it, big time and super fast, im your guy... send it to me, I can screw up anything beyound belife

Prop

Words fail me ..........

100 years ago - we also relied more on 1 horsepower with a whole lot of brain power - I'm almost tempted to say that the horse causes less damage :)
rachmacb

Prop, your the MAN!!! :)


Dont even try to repair it but dispose of the battery on a enviremental way(dump it in the neighbours pool).
LOL!!
Arie de Best

Prop,

Almost have to agree with Rach on this. It is difficult to put you into any one category, neo-luddite?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Luddism

L.C.
Larry C '69 Midget

Seriously Prop, just buy a new one.
Having stupidly managed to squirt battery acid into my eyes a few weeks ago you don't want to play around with that stuff. Its nasty and I was lucky not to have any permenant damage. Put your safety goggles on!
Matt1275 Bucks

Prop,

I have got to say, man, having you on the web site is like having a puppy in the room. All energy and enthusiasm, but not much of direction or thought.

cheers,

Norm "shaking my head" Kerr


Norm Kerr

Prop

Don't feel too bad I did exactly the same thing on my Midget many years ago while attempting to fit a radio. I drilled through the bulkhead and removed the drill only to find what I thought must be water trapped behind coming out of the hole, on lifting the bonnet I realised in dismay that it was the battery. I pulled the battery out then removed the carpets and flushed the inside of the car with buckets of water. I repaired the battery with Araldite and topped up the acid, it continued to work until I sold the car a couple of years later. The only lasting evidence was a bleached area on the black carpets.

Bob
R.A Davis

Prop a Luddite?! No way, he's on the cutting edge of technology! He was probably attaching a hidden audio amplifier so he can use his smart phone as his audio source! I'm just wondering where he is going to put the LCD screen so he can connect to the internet through his phone so he can check ebay while driving! (OK, forget about the golf club he uses to prop the bonnet). Prop, don't feel bad. While we don't like to admit it, we've all had one of those "Oh, sh*t!" moments. The bottom holes might just be into the thick case of the battery, but you've still got the one above. I would get a new battery and get on with it. You've only got about 6 weeks until Midget 50!!
Jack Orkin

Ah, the things he doesn't tell me at times. Prop told me he had battery problems and blamed me for those because I told him about my battery failing on my recent trip to the V8/V6 meet in Tennessee. Now I know that I didn't jinx him at all, he was the culprit all along. Prop, a cell will indeed read a bit low if it has a steel screw through several of the plates shorting them out. LOL
Bite the bullet and get a new battery, as you said it's already almost 5 years old anyway and it's had quite a bit of use trying to start your engine so many times.
B Young

Tsk Tsk...
Alex G Matla

Words fail me!

Please Prop, don't try putting up any shelves at home lest you burst a water pipe / hit the ring main and electrocute yourself!
Deborah Evans

Thats cheered me up...
K Harris

Actually ...words did NOT fail me at the moment of notice.

I belive the phase used was a random hobb nob of explitives in no logical order of the garden varity....hahaha

Gez, I still feel like a bone head... just un-real.... ither you guys arent telling everything of a bone head moment, or there are cosmic forces lined up agiant me....haha

Like Bill said... i had it tested earlier that day for a dead.cell, i noticed water on the battry when i took it in and agian when i installed it.... not sure how the battry was getting wet from all the rain we where having .. i noticed a faint odd smell to the water i could not identify so a taste test of the water was conducted.... its amazing how the instant flavor of alkaline results in an imediate diagnoise of where the water is comming from.

I have to say for such a bone head moment... i truly LUCKED out, The self taper screw that id placed thur the fire wall and into the battry held tight and never leaked....and that was from last week it wasnt till I removed the battry... that it started leaking ... car is dry thank god... even if it did... looks like that rhino linner just paid off huge with massive dividens.... so im putting that in to the win column

Before i do a new battry and the hole so small i think ill tap the hole for a fine thread and install a nylon screw and seal around it with lexon lamentant sealer... made for glueing plexy and lexon plastic/glass

Considering the length of the self tapper... it couldnt have gone in vary far. Most like just thur the case its self and not into the plates




The lesson learned here is .... know whats on the other side of the fire wall and use the shortest self tappers possiable before installing them.

Prop... its hump day, this story has got to be good for at least that.


Prop

In my penniless youth I repaired an accident damaged battery that had a split/crack, with Araldite. It lasted at least a year after which I sold the car.

If you're on a tight budget you might want to risk Araldite.
Daniel Thirteen-Twelve

What is the eqivalent of ( araldite ) here in the usa... im not sure i haave heard of that before.

Thanks

Prop
Prop

Epoxy Resin
Deborah Evans

Epoxy resin as in the stuff used. For fiberglass...?
Prop

No Prop.

See:

http://www.360bonding.com/index.phtml?FOLDERID=18904
Deborah Evans

Devcon is a brand which GE uses, so probably USA made.
Alex G Matla

Prop,

Better you read this first;

http://www.doityourself.com/stry/7-safety-tips-for-using-super-glue

L.C.
Larry C '69 Midget

Thanks guys

Ill give that a try.... if it dosnt work.. ill short out the battery and trade it in for whats left on my warrenty....im pretty battrey worms and screw holes arnt covered.... hahaha.


Prop
Prop

Just junk the battery you eejit. Oh and NEXT time drill from outside IN!
Deborah Evans

What did Dirty Harry say, "A man's got to know his limitations."
Clive Reddin

LOL!! Clive.
That one is brilliant!!
Arie de Best

If it's polypropoline (?), just melt the holes over with a hot soldering iron. Check the specific gravity of an undamaged cell with a hydrometer, and mix up acid and distilled water to the correct level. Refill and go on to screw up your next task! How is your paint in the vacinity of the leak? Use hot water to rinse off excess acid.
Shawn

My mate at the fire station was a part time electrician and alarm fitter. One of the other guys on the watch was helping him out fit an alarm to an old dears house. He drilled through the ceiling to run a sensor wire. The drill slowed down, and he could not pull it back from the ceiling. He went upstairs only to find he had drilled into the wardrobe and wound one of the lady's frocks around the drill bit, real tight. He reversed the drill while his mate untangled the dress. They found the iron and ironing board and straightened the dress out the best they could. They re-hung it and said nothing. All 3 of us now live in Australia.
Shawn

buy a new battery and think of moving your electrical accessory of the moment to a different location....
Chris Edwards

Prop. I keep telling you that you cannot be a Moran because you are neither Masai, nor adopted into said tribe. It is the circumcision ceremony that keeps you hoping is it not?

Les
Les Bengtson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_Kh7nLplWo
Trevor Jessie

He can't be Moran. Moran was noted as being the WISEST of the Irish Brehons!
Deborah Evans

"All 3 of us now live in Australia"

Along with the rest of us convict descendants!


LOL
Roger T

A descendant of the infamous Col. Sebastian Moran, perhaps?

By the way, my battery is held in place by a clamp, not screws.

-:G:-
Gryf Ketcherside

Moran - see below.

-:G:-

Gryf Ketcherside


Been done before Prop,well sort of.
The two way radio installer screwed a self tapper into the floor of a police car in my town. Straight into the brake line. Wasn't till the car did a screaming u turn did the problem come to light! One lucky speeding motorist!
col.
c pearce

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