Re: Tipped over battery

Posted by Steve On 2017/9/4 11:23:26

I was a Chevron dealer from 1977 to 1987, all the Atas batteries we stocked had battery and acid separate. When a battery was sold, the battery caps were removed from the battery, the cap at the end of the rubber fill tube was cut off, the liquid was added to each cell to cover the plates in the battery up to the full line, one hour on a 40 amp charger, load tested and installed in the car. Don't recall any problems with this but I think that safety was the reason batteries were changed to being factory filled and charged. During the 70's and 80's gas stations were slowly moving from gas and service bays to gas and stop and go food/snack stations, along with the demise of the "full service/self serve" gas pumping and the reduction of TBA sales (tires, batteries, accessories) the thought of selling batteries to the general public that required the exposure to lead and acid probably had the Chevron "in house counsel" recoiling with moderate TIA's and heart attack symptoms.
Steve