<VV> I use a plain forklift battery that is pretty common

[Eric S. Eberhard]

Eeek == after I get my barn roof done and things moved in I'll find a 
battery and get a part number.  When the last one blew I got sick of it 
and bought a standard NAPA battery for 1/2 the cost.  Like I said, it is 
a driver.  Although I think I'll go back to my forklift batteries again.

Jeff Williams at http://www.californiacorvairparts.com/ knows exactly 
what to get, so you it would be faster to ask him.  He is the one that 
told be about the fork lift batteries and the cap swapping.

E

On 10/15/2015 12:49 PM, Dusty Steinberg wrote:
> Do you know what the battery part number is?  thanks Paul in CT
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>> Subject:<VV>  I use a plain forklift battery that is pretty common
>>
>> and the right size exactly.  I put the caps on from an old NOS battery I
>> finally killed and it does look original.  You can still get NOS ones
>> occasionally and it is easy to fill them with acid to wake them up and
>> it has always worked for me.  But I decided that only a true nerd could
>> tell the difference between the batteries with the caps swapped ... me
>> being such a nerd ... but it is not worth the dollars anymore.  I used
>> to get NOS batteries for 50 bucks or less.  Now they want 500 and it is
>> just a driver.  If you can find some NOS caps though ... I use plain
>> black ones (round) with no logo at all.  I do have an A/C set in orange
>> or yellow (can't remember and all my stuff is scattered now, putting on
>> a new barn roof).  Almost any of the large battery places will have
>> forklift batteries (long and thin) -- and you can buy them dry as well
>> and save shipping if needed.  They are easy to start (pour acid in, wait
>> a day).
>>
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