From: STEVE Hill (statesvillenc@msn.com)
Date: Mon Mar 29 2004 - 11:42:17 PST
When I bought my M151A2 it had half of an old tire intertube laying on top
of the batteries. Seems to work pretty well. Also, the battery hold-down
brackets were rusted out, so I use pieces of 2 X 4s to separate the
batteries and keep them in place.
Steve
>From: chance wolf <chance_wolf@shaw.ca>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Subject: Re: [MV] battery explosion
>Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 10:33:27 -0800
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "everette" <194cbteng@bellsouth.net>
>To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
>Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 9:53 AM
>Subject: [MV] battery explosion
>
> > I was working on my 151 and had a fellow helping me, GROWN man, (...) My
>intentions are
> > to glue piece of vinyl to inside of lid.
>
>
>The Canadian M151A2s I've seen all have a piece of 1/8 or 3/16 rubber
>matting glued to the inside of the lid. I've got one of those covers on
>mine along with the flat-rubber terminal cover things that the US Army used
>on their 151s later on in their service lives. I think Frank's Surplus has
>those in quantity if you want to score some just for an extra bit of
>battery
>insurance.
>
>
>
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