Silly Battery question

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This might be a "D'oh... of course that's how you do it" question but here goes anyway.

My battery has the normal bolt connecting the positive and negative terminals to it which capture the bolt underneath. So far so good. However, I also have my optimate trickle charger leads, and also the cigarette power outlet (for charging phone, satnav, making a cuppa). When I put the bolt through the eyelets for these, then the battery terminal I have a hell of a time getting it to capture the bolt underneath as the thread is lifted up just enough to miss it.

What the secret way of getting this nut back on the end.

Feel free to snigger if it's obvious.:banghead:
 
Don't waste your money on a special "Battery Bolt" !!!,- get an M6 (6mm) bolt and cut it so it's 1 - 1½mm longer than the stock one. Cheap and easy.

Other option is to slide in a piece of plastic (I have used a piece of cable binder before), and place it under the lover nut in the battery terminal. This will lift the nut enough for the Stock bolt to get hold of it.
 
I had this same problem and found a simple,easy solution.
My new battery came with a nut, and I had a nut from the older battery I was trying to replace.

I just stacked the two nuts together and slid them both under the battery terminal.
The bolt was able to immediately screw into the nut on top, and then into the nut on the bottom.
 
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as said use another nut, longer bolt, something under it i find that a zip tie or a small flat screwdriver works great. very few questions are stupid or silly!:thumbup:
 
andyparsons said:
I put a piece of plastic tubing about a 1/4 inch underneath the nut. An old overflow tube from a battery works well. Good luck
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This is what we do with all of our jetski batteries. Just cut a piece of overflow tube and slide it under the nut. Works great. :thumbup:
 
Don't do what I did ,I had the same problem and thought "oh I,ll just hold the nut up with a screwdriver" well the angle I needed was a bit more than I thought and..........well you know the rest :rolleyes:
 
You're not a mechanic until you've shorted a screwdriver between battery + and ground.

You're not an expert until you've grabbed the metal bit of the screwdriver with a bare hand after shorting it between battery + and ground.

Fred <- expert
 
huxy said:
This might be a \\"D'oh... of course that's how you do it\\" question but here goes anyway.

Feel free to snigger if it's obvious.:banghead:
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No such thing as a silly question... the only silly question is the one you DON'T ask. :thumbup:

We had the same thing when trying to get Wolfmans Scorpio alarm hooked up. A bit of non-conductive material under the nut and you are laughing... Zip Tie, hose, anthing.

I'm going to grab a couple of longer M6 bolts from work (shh, don't tell anyone :rof: ), just for when I add something to the terminal.

:)
 
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lol sorry forgot to mention the rubber coated screw driver... and um... rag between screwdriver and metal.....
 
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Oh sorry that wont work at all.

Nevermind.
 
I just did this today. I ended up sticking a small twig underneath the nut, it'll just get crushed when you tighten it, so you don't have anything in there to worry about.
 
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