Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-04-11 | Page 26 | Battery Attention the Hydrometer

BAM ATTENTION THEHYDHOMETER Do not abuse your battery and endanger en-danger pleasant motor trips by failing to use your hydrometer. Each time you manipulate this specific gravity measurer you lessen ltB Initial cost and prolong the usefulness of your battery. bat-tery. "To properly test the specific gravity gravi-ty of a battery cell," nays C. W. Iver-son Iver-son of the Exide Battery station, "remove "re-move the vent, insert the rubber tube a! the bottom of the syringe hydrometer hydro-meter through the vent well down into the electrolyte. Squeeze the rubber bulb firmly, then remove pressure from the bulb. Electrolyte will rise into the glass barrel. If you desire an extremely accurate reading, lift the Instrument to a convenient height and hold it vertically so you can see the glass barrel of the nyilnge. Ordinarily Ordinari-ly It will suffice to read the hydro-' meter with the syringe in the well and then you can easily see the figure reached by the surface of the electrolyte. electro-lyte. "After the reading Is taken, be certain cer-tain to restore the electrolyte to the cell from which it was removed never to another so that the between cell.s balance of acid is preserved. Insert tho rubber tube into tbe vent woll, Boueeze the bulb so as to expel all the' liquid from the sjringe and do not release re-lease the pressure from the bulb until you have withdrawn the tube from the well. This will preclude stealing acid unknowingly from one cell and donating donat-ing it to another Then proceed withi the same operation on the next cell, and so on until all the cells have been i separately tested. Be sure that no spilled acid remains on the top of the bnttcry. Remember frequent hydro-motion hydro-motion gives battery contentment and hydrometers ddn'f wear out."'