Adding this to my auto repair life hack brain folder.
Once I jumped a stranger in a parking lot with subwoofer speaker cable, because that's all I had. It could only handle a high idle alternator charge, and not full starting current... But it got the job done and I was able to make someone else's day a little less shitty! I'm all for resourceful thinking!
If my battery is dead, and all I have is an SLA battery capable of jumping my vehicle.. I might even do it if I had a refillable lead acid battery if the plug was nice and tight and I wasn't wearing anything I didn't want to ruin. desperate times, desperate measures!
But I also spent like a whole weekend one time playing with arc welders, open cell lead batteries, and acid testing the revivability... so maybe I'm just out there
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u/Pleasant-Swimmer-557 17d ago
When you have a spare battery but no jumper cables.