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Subject:Re: battery removal3-1026)
From:Craig Oda
Date:Wed, 22 Oct 2003 18:35:08 -0700

If there is no strap, you can take two wrenches with the circle part of
the wrench big enough to fit over the battery terminals.  angle the
wrench (like a 6 or 12 point hole wrench) over the terminal, then yank
it out, using the gravity of the battery on the terminals to keep the
grip tight.

don spence wrote:

> Most jobbers will have a "battery lift strap", a cute little strap with
> rings on each end which securely grab the battery posts. Attach and
> lift. Easy as pie... no, easier
>
>
> On Tuesday, October 21, 2003, at 01:04  PM, Automatic digest processor
> wrote:
>
>> Battery removal is easy if it has an integrated handle, which the
>> MTP-91
>> model has. I don't know how a would have got the old one out if it
>> didn't
>> have a handle, so I'm glad that the new one has a handle as well.
>

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