OCR Text |
Show BATTERY IDICII 15 DISTILLED WATER ''If instructed by a physician to take a certain amount of medicine you generally gen-erally fallow his. instructions, ""' said an official of the Motor Car Kquipmcnt company, .109 East Broadway, U. S. L. battery' station. "But," he continued, "wheij, it comes to battery medicine, you either under- or over-dose the patient. Water is battery medicine and should be administered ad-ministered only in accordance with the state of the battery's health. "First of all, pet these three laws firmly rooted in your mind don't add too much water don 't add too little water add only distilled water. Disaster Dis-aster follows directly upon the disobey-ence disobey-ence of any one of these laws. After putting in "too much water you get the car under way and then the bubbling of gas and rise of temperature, produced pro-duced by charging, causes the electrolyte electro-lyte to expand. This expansion, together to-gether with the car's vibration, causes the excess electrolyte to spill over the top of the battery and then trouble. ' 1 If you add too little water the tops of" the separators are exposed to the air and will begin to split and invite internal short circuits, which brings more trouble. If you add und is tilled water, which has come in contact with metal, then the whole Trouble family will arrive. Never handle distilled water in any but glass, hard rubber or glazed earthenware vessels. In the summer give your battery medicine once a week, but in no event allow the electrolyte surface to fall below the plate tops. As a. sure working rule, keep the surface only one-quarter inch above the plate tops ami add only distilled dis-tilled water." The Motor Car Equipment company also advised car owners to get that "bottled in bond" battery booklet, "Black Mystery Box Explained," Vbich is mailed, free, upon request, by the United States Liylit & Heat corporation, corpora-tion, Niagara Falls, N. Y. |