Battery restore kit.

[jordan watson]

I saw an advertisement for a battery restore kit. It is some kind of liquid you put in each cell, shake the battery to mix it up and then slow charge and it is supposed to revive the battery. Has anyone tried it and it worked or is it just snake oil. I have several old batteries I would be willing to try it on. A bottle is supposed to do 6 to 8 batteries for 29.95.

 

[warbaby]

Caveat Emptor

 

[Janicholson]

They get your 30, you get to play with dead batteries for several hours and hope for a miracle. A battery that show some life (note the some factor) was likely inspired by the slow charge. Some parts houses and battery stores will give you 10$ each for batteries in store credit. That is a deal. Jim

 

[casecollectorsc]

My great uncle use to sell VX-6...he had a upside down car outside his shop with the sign will your battery turn your car over.

 

[buickanddeere]

That cr@p is an insult to snakes .

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Buy a tool to estimate CCA or a carbon load tester.
Then buy the snake oil and report back with your test results.
There's a time to be born and a time to die. Same applies to batteries.

 

[MarkB_MI]

Ah yes, VX-6! One of the many amazing elixirs once marketed in the pages of the J. C. Whitney catalog. My boyhood would have been so much more boring without the J. C. Whitney catalog to pass my time.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

And the catalogs never stopped coming.
Can you Imagine JC Whitney if there was an internet back then?
I can't remember exactly where JC Whitney was located.
I got sent to Chicago to pick up refrigeration parts for my dad.
I went past the JC whitney store.
If I recall it was near Chinatown.

 

[JMOR]

(quoted from post at 19:55:36 11/14/21) Ah yes, VX-6! One of the many amazing elixirs once marketed in the pages of the J. C. Whitney catalog. My boyhood would have been so much more boring without the J. C. Whitney catalog to pass my time.

his tractor wouldn't turn over before we used VX-6!

 

[jordan watson]

That's what I was thinking about doing.

 

[big tee]

You would be better of buying those X-Ray glasses on the back of old comic books!!---Tee

 

[MarkB_MI]

> I can't remember exactly where JC Whitney was located. I got sent to Chicago to pick up refrigeration parts for my dad. I went past the JC whitney store. If I recall it was near Chinatown.

J. C. Whitney's last operation was near La Salle, Illinois, right off I-80. I've stopped there several times, mostly just to take a break. I understand that it is now known as carparts.com.

 

[larry zielkowski]

thats funny thanks

 

[J Hamilton]

Don't forget about Colonal Harvey's Indian Elixir too lol

 

[504]

The corner of Wakashaw & Archer Ave Chicago IL. On the cover of some of the catalogs there was a picture of the sign posts. I was about 14 when I first saw a catalog.

 

[Bret4207]

Betcha it works just as good as that stuff that will regrow a bald mans hair...

 

[DMartin9N-2N]

Good afternoon, 504 and others: As a teenager, I needed a crankshaft/bearing kit for a 1954 Ford, the only place I found one (after many phone calls around) was either J.C.Whitney or Warshawski. I knew they were related companies, but when I got there, I found each one had an address on a different street, but they were at an intersection, so actually both in one building.

BTW, I replaced the crankshaft, bearings and a few other parts, working under a weeping willow in back yard. (A borrowed chain hoist and the willow made this job possible.). The Ford ran again, so we sold it.

Dennis Martin in W. Tenn.