Hi all
So I get a new car battery and find that the two points for connecting the leads from the car are quite small and when tightened with a spanner the leads are still a bit slack on the battery terminals. What can I do to rectify this easily? SHove a nail inbetween the clips of the lead and the battery terminal to make a nice tight fit?
cheers
Get a battery with the right size terminals or change the ends of the leads to suit the battery
If you use a nail then you will not get a proper contact as only part of the clip will be touching the terminal. Also once the nail rusts it will create increased resistance and cause the nail to heat up Not good
Tony
Well that implies somebodys overtightened them in the past & stretched them (Assuming you've got the right battery), new battery terminals aren't very expensive.
The message from snipped-for-privacy@aol.com (Skint4sure) contains these words:
Take the battery back and get the correct one.
A scrap yard would probably let you have the leads for next-to-nothing.
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