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Show AOTO BATTERY IS HEARTOFTROUBLE Look Well to It, Is Advice to Autoists by Superintendent Superin-tendent McDonald. The battery of an automobile is the heart of all its trouble, according to C. M. McDonald, superintendent of the service ser-vice department of the Inter-Mountain Electric company. "When you go out to your garage in the morning and find that for some reason rea-son or other your starter won't work it gives you a lot of satisfaction to know exactly what the trouble is, although you may not be able yourself to remedy it." says Mr. McDonald. "If the trouble is in the battery, certain cer-tain definite symptoms will denote it. "If you find that your battery has not energy enough to turn over the starting motor, the first thing you do naturally is to test tt with your hydrometer. Nine times out of ten you will find that the trouble is starving. The hydrometer will infalliblv uncover, this condition, for Instead In-stead of registering 12 SO to 13'0 ag it would if the battery were fulled charged, it will register beiow 1i0. 1 "Ail right. You've discovered that your 1 battery is starved. But going back a step farther: 'What causes it to be starved? How did it come about that the batterv which is to supply you with energy and to spare for starting ana lighting gets into a condition that it has not power enough for either one or these things?' "Starving of the battery may point to ( a short circuit, especially if in checking up vou find that you are running the , machine sufficiently to allow a good pro- , portion of energy to be returned to the battery. , . "Short circuits are usually found in the wiring system outside of the battery and if a casual test does not reveal the trouble it is always best to have the system sys-tem carefully gone over by an expert. Mr. McDoi aid declares that a short circuit wlil drain a hattery of all its power in a very few hours. With the summer touring season on in full blast, motorists are flocking to the Inter-Mountain company's service stations sta-tions in great numbers daily, according to Mr. McDonald. The fact that the store keeps open until un-til 9 o'clock on Saturday nights, and from 9 to 1 o'clock Sunday mornings has proven a big convenience for motorists who are unable to have their car attended to during regular week day hours. The accessory department of the company com-pany is well stocked with summer motoring mo-toring necessities and officials of the department de-partment report an unusually busy week. |