Show use haul hard wire solder at end of each terminal by A P PECK the fumes that arise from a lead plate storage battery when it Is cliart in inar or discharging have a very troublesome property of corroding certain ulet als one ot of the metals so affected la is copper usually leal leado made maile of I 1 tilts ills material are used tor for connecting the storage to rage A battery to the set lit in such a ailse tile the wires soon start to corrode especially at the point where they are fastened to the battery terminals this corrosion takes the form of a soft pasty bluish mass being most prominent at one terminal after tills this formation starts to build up the connection between the wire and the battery fatter terminal becomes had bad and gives trouble usually it Is necessary to entirely remove the wire and thoroughly clean the terminal all of this trouble can be remedied once and for all by soldering or clamping a piece of heavy hard wire solder about a foot long to each of the terminals the copper leads may then be soldered to the ends of tile the lead strips ns as shown other materials I 1 than illin I 1 sol larea cocoe alles all es 1 I aleavy wilc wil c bolder or zead tired 50 4 I 1 wire solder as preventive of c corrosion orro sion on connections may be used for tins tills pu purpose strips of lead or in tact fact uny any lead that arft be readily found and cun can lie be sol df arrid pd or clamped to tile llie ter will fill the hill bill the must most ini important point Is to keep the copper lends leads away from the battery using the non corrosive metal where it will be exposed to the arising from tile the battery As nn an added precaution coat coal the connections the terminals of the bat tery and the connection strips with a thin film dim of lubricating grease tills will prevent any possible corrosion of any impurities that happen to be pres ent nt in tile metals and will tend to preserve the appear atice of the battery ilailo news |