Show Columbia Man Warns FaIers i If It anybody looks at the outside of your battery and tries to tell you I what's going on inside youre you're safe InI in insetting insetting I setting him down as a faker says Albert Albert Albert Al Al- bert C C. Cronk of The Battery Char Charging Charging ing Stat Station on Columbia battery distributors tors Not long ago a patron of one of these battery fortune tellers drove up and to told d us that his plates were all gone and that he needed a new battery We could have sold him one too he lie was that certain It seems that I the son of one of his neighbors had hadI hado looked o at the battery and made a wild guess After we had Inspected the battery I we found it was a clear case of undercharging undercharging undercharging under under- charging caused by a loose connection We Ve added distilled water charged the battery and acid in a couple of days had it ready for service I Another man who thought he was wasa a Sherlock Holmes on batteries fell rell down because be formed his conclusion from performances Instead of facts In- In tide the battery This fellow thought I his plates were short circuited that short that th tho insulation had failed The real trouble was that he had left his maI machine machine ma ma- chine lie He idle and had failed to keep the charge up so that the plates were I so hard that a long charge was necessary sary |