Could this crank be bent from storing in this corner for three years?
I very seriously doubt it.
i very seriously doubt it.
Wen will the old wives tales die off?
BTW, batteries made before about 1960 (IIRC) were made of a different material, which is why they leached power if left on concrete.
That is what I was told. I have never seen it.
I very seriously doubt it.
I love how the internet makes everyone a genius.
Lay a battery on a concrete slab and see what happens to it, and the concrete it is sitting on.
Sorry it just ain't true.
Take your car's battery box. Older battery boxes never had a plastic tray, and metal is WAY more conductive than concrete. The fact is, it doesn't matter, you can set a battery on glass, wood, wet wood, or in a pan of salt water. It will "self discharge" in exactly the same manner.
Right.
Tell me, do you have to charge a battery when you buy it from a parts store?
The internet makes everyone a genius.
I never had a battery box made of concrete, in any of my cars. Weird.
I have been reading Larry Shepard's book "How to Hot Rod Smallblock Mopars" and he mentions it in the book.
Never lay a crank down, stand it up on end when storing it.
The rest of that book should be used to soak up spilled oil or to start a fire.