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Show TEN RULES OFFERED TO SAVE BATTERIES Greater Care Is Necessary During Dur-ing Winter Weather. Few Simple Instructions, If Faithfully Followed, Will Add Materially to Life of Important Electrical Device Now that cold weather Is here, you should look your battery over every two weeks. These few simple Instructions, Instruc-tions, faithfully followed, will lengthen the life of a battery: 1. Don't lay tools or anything else on top of your battery. 2. Don't spin your engine several minutes at a time. 3. If your engine does not start promptly, see that the Ignition switch is on and he carburetor mixture sufficiently suf-ficiently rich before using starter again. 4. See that engine Is sufficiently primed In cold wer.ther. Throw your switch off; push starter to turn engine en-gine once or twice; throw switch on; then start again und your cylinder is primed. 5. If your car stands idle for a month or more, take the battery out j and leave it at the service station. 6. Use nothing hut distilled water. 7. Let an expert add the acid for the electrolyte. 8. When the solution sprays or ?pllls, wipe clean with a moist sponge. Some batteries make no provision to keep the solution from splashing, so this rule is given. 0. Keep metal parts of connection, ivhich are not lead-coated, covered with a thin coating of vaseline. 10. Dim lights are sometimes warning warn-ing signals of short circuits or improper im-proper charging. Let the service sta-! sta-! tion make an inspection' when you are confused. |