Craigslist funny stuff

[Juniper]

Yeah some people act like a battery will last forever if you don't use it.

Have you ever heard, that storing a battery on cement will kill the battery?
My mother in law tells me, to put a board under the battery.

Yes I've heard it from people all my life. I even believed it many years ago. I had a friend who would find a piece of wood and put it under my batteries if they were on the concrete  . LOL. The logic is that concrete is a good conductor and therefore somehow drain the battery.
I asked him why the batteries don't drain when they are on an even better conductor?.. the steel in your car.

Of course he didn't have an answer. I read somewhere that WAY back when batteries were first made they used some thing other than plastic.. And that type of material actually did conduct some electricity therefor putting a battery on the ground did indeed drain a battery.

I heard they made the batteries in a wooden box. There was some issue with moisture from cement effecting the wood. (I googled it years ago, when she told me that)

"batteries in a wooden box".Um , let me think. OK.... NO!

 
Car batteries used to be encased in hard rubber, a substance that was porous enough that battery acid could seep through it and create a conductive path through the damp concrete, draining the battery. The cases of today’s batteries, however, are made of sturdier stuff that far better contains their contents than those of yesteryear. As well, time has brought technological improvements to the seals around the posts and the vent systems.

These days, the problem of car battery electrolyte seepage and migration has been all but eliminated. Says battery manufacturer Yuasa, “Nowadays, containers are made from a solid plastic that does not allow any current to flow through it, so the batteries do not discharge, even if they sit in a few inches of water.”

http://www.snopes.com/autos/techno/battery.asp

Nothing about CL, but the talk of batteries reminds me of a George Harrison interview when he said that when he was still a teen he went hitchhiking with Paul McCartney. They got picked up by a truck driver. But there was no passenger seat, so, Harrison sat on the wheel well, and McCartney sat on the battery. But the metal zipper in his back jeans pockets made a connection between the two poles and burned a zipper mark into his ass.