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Subject:Re: Can a battery terminal clamp cause a battery to discharge?
From:Loren Busch
Date:Fri, 8 Aug 2008 07:42:48 -0700

This is a Friday joke, right?  If not I want to meet the guy at the FLAPS, I
have a Bridge in Brooklyn and some waterfront in Florida for sale and I'm
sure he'll be interested.....

On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 5:57 AM, mordo <helmut.blong@gmail.com> wrote:

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> I sent my wife to AA to have a suspect battery tested and likely replaced.
> The gentleman helping her told her very seriously that because terminal
> clamps had been tightened so that the tabs were closed together between the
> bolt, that it was causing a "short circuit" that was draining the battery.
> He strongly urged her to replace the terminal clamps before we killed
> another battery.
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