Many thanks Rick! The better your batteries are when you start this, the better your outcome will be!

Many thanks brother and good luck with this! Yeah the mixture here will work no matter the size of the battery, I still haven't seen any other videos that explains much in depth the mixing ratio of both the baking soda and Epsom salt with water. Thanks again for tuning in and Happy Easter!

Happy Easter to you and yours as well, brother.

Me too....

Did it work?

I have spent months researching into fixing a car battery and found a great website at Magic Mender Wizard (google it if you are interested)

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yes, I did that too but didn't know about the baking soda wash. At that time you could buy fresh sulfuric acid and replace with fresh but didn't do any good cause of the sulfation, this was 30 years ago before the battery rejuvenation trend!

You couldn't get the battery to power a vehicle, right? I'm stuck with one cell not bubbling, but when I jarred the battery around a little bit, the cell that didn't work changed to the one next to it. I'm running 40 A through the battery terminals with a stick welder. The bad cell doesn't bubble, and like I said, it changed based on rattling the battery around.

Greetings: ... And how did that work 4 U?

yep can do :) thank you for watching!

Very cool! I used to do this on all of our RV batteries when we had an RV and saved me a ton of money over many years of camping, it works on deep cell batteries too! Thanks for stopping in!

Buddy Martin Harbor Freight sell battery maintainers cheap. They are nothing more than a 12 volt "wall wart" at below an amp. It will take longer to charge but you may have better luck at this low amperage to bring back a dead battery. Check the information on the package but most of them do not have battery monitoring, in other words they are dumb chargers. Look around your house, you may already have a 12 or 13 volt DC wall wart at an amp or less your not using. Snip off the barrel jack and solder on some alligator clips and you just made a trickle charger.

What "formula"?

No, that motor has a alternator under the flywheel, with 36v A.C. leads to head lights... and Some D.C. leads to the Battery .... from different coils, not affecting the 12V charging of the battery.

That was well said.

you are correct, putting acid back into the battery would make it last longer as you said, but I'm getting anywhere from 3 to 4 years on the epsom salt then I just do it all again. thanks for watching and commenting!

@@RandySchartiger Awesome brother!

@@RandySchartiger As I said in previous video, you are mixing metals -- lead and magnesium. Those bubbles are oxygen bubbles leaving the H2O (water), and leaving Hydrogen ions running around -- thereby creating the sulfuric acid. So it's a sulfuric acid solution the way you're doing it -- which is the same kind of acid you dumped out in the dirty (contaminated with Lead Sulfate) solution. The issue comes with the Magnesium. That magnesium from the Epsom Salt (Magnesium Sulfate) will wind up electroplating the lead plates inside. Both metals conduct electricity. So it clearly will work. And it will fill some of the pitting on the lead plates with Magnesium metal. However, the voltage comes from a differential between metals. You may simply wind up with a battery with lead plates electroplated with magnesium metal that doesn't have the same voltage capacity as it should have. If you were to simply dump out the old electrolyte with the lead sulfate junk in it, and merely add more sulfuric acid of the appropriate concentration...the more you do this, the thinner and thinner those lead plates would get inside. By adding magnesium sulfate, you're helping reduce the amount of the lead plate thinning/pitting. My main concern would be how well the electroplated magnesium 'sticks' to the lead plates. If it doesn't stick well because of chemical properties, the vibration from lawn mowing could cause some of those magnesium deposits to fall to the bottom of the battery as pure magnesium metal powder -- which could wind up shorting out the cells inside. This can happen with the lead solution as well, though -- as the lead sulfate falls off the plates too. And when you re-charge the battery, that lead sulfate turns into just lead metal powder with the sulfur going into solution as Sulfuric Acid. Lead metal powder shorts out plates just as much as magnesium metal powder does. So it's very important to flush that battery out at that initial baking soda step as best you can to remove all the lead and/or magnesium metal particles that have detached from the plates.

@@shanejohns7901 True. Understand that the average idiot does not understand what U typed. Those of us that do and know chemistry already know the uses of such byproducts. :)

How is it working for you on doing this reconditioning of the batteries?

Not yet got ahold of some, will get to it soon.

One of my meters is exactly the same as well from about the same time period. Still works well. That little mirrored strip is great for eliminating parallax issues when reading where exactly the needle is. Great design feature.

I was thinking the exact same thing. Will be giving your method a shot on all the batteries we have in the shop for our off grid solar project. Those batteries have literally been sitting for at least 2 years. I'm also planning to purchase some battery acid such as this one: www.amazon.com/WPS-Non-Sealed-Battery-Electrolyte-Pack/dp/B003CKJDW6#customerReviews The purchased acid is to top off any batteries that are low and to boost the concentration of sulfur a bit.

dumb question but how do you dispose of the old acid electrolyte?

Han Solo so how well did that product work for you?

@@RagedContinuum l would neutralize it with baking soda and water until it stop sizzling then it should be safe to put into sewer for sure and maybe septic?

@@deanstuder1775 is there an issue with any lead that may be in the neutralized solution?

Thanks Kent for checking it out, I hope it's helpful!

yes if you need to use vehicle every day or so even if it works you are screwed...not much labor but the charging can take days...

That would be awesome. Why dont you do it ?

waiting for your update with interest.

Any update yet?

Well did it work?

Maybe he passed away.

Pull the caps and put 200 amps to it for five minutes then let it rest for an hour . He dicked around three days on that battery

Only once and it worked, I had some acid someone had got with a new battery and gave to me so I tried it after the baking soda and the battery work almost 5 years. That probably would be better than Epsom salt if you have it or can get it. Thanks for having a look!

David Henry it's muriatic NOT sulfuric acid used in meth production. I bought acid from O'Reilly's for batteries with no hassle whatsoever.

Very Cool ............. ! Yer doing good work there.... Nice!

I first tried doing this many years ago and DID use fresh acid. The battery lasted for many years. The issue I found is finding a place to dispose of the old acid, etc.. Not every recycling center will take hazmat materials.

@@kenbrickey1073 just neutralize and dump it down the drain. Or keep it if you gonna need acid for something in the future.

haha someone pointed out Q-ball wasn't getting enough air time so figured I better get her in on more videos! :) Thanks mate!

Did you try it and if so did it work?

Sometimes unless it's a dead short a cell like this can be revived, even if it is a dead short sometimes the baking soda will finally loosen the sulfate crystals enough to fall off and eliminate the shorted cell, I might work on that one cell a bit more. Thanks for having a look.

It was 3.8 volts if you look at the correct scale (The DC voltage scale)

@@stevenplank7058 No, in this type of meters you read both AC & DC on same scale, depending on the AC/DC switch position. He has this clear explanation on the 2/3 video :)

best of luck Darin! it works if the cells are not damaged.

@@RandySchartiger Hello Randy, I was successful with my battery resurrection with only one exception. The temperature reached a low of @ 0 degrees Fahrenheit in February. My battery did freeze and showed @ 4 volts when frozen. When it thawed out volts were @ 12.1 and it started the truck like it should. 👍👍

Thanks for having a peak Dane!

You're right about the fluid on the top of the battery, it can definitely cause problems if enough of it gets on there at once. The caps should always be left off or just laying loose over the cells because a lot of gas and pressure can build up over the process of charging from dead to a full charge. Thanks for checking it out Charlie!

Why should we? we already got the info from this video and its free.

Thank you my brother! Q is still rockin hard! :) Have a great weekend!

That’s a good question I would have to say yes. I live in northern, mi . I would do the cleaning part plus clean and reuse the old acid then just add fresh acid to fill🤷🏻‍♂️🤔🤔.

@@miman-ck9jv He didn't add new acid, just epsom salt. I do not understand how his epsom salt chemistry is working to charge the battery.

@@hacunamatata6802 I've have been using Randy's method with a little of my own cleaning out method. I wash my batteries out with the water hose after every baking soda treatment and before I added the Epsom salt solution for charging. This method works great! I've had 100% success on the 3 batteries I've resurrected! I live in Arkansas and with the weather we had last week it was -3 degrees F last Tuesday morning. My batteries did freeze but when they thawed out they held their charge and work great. I don't know where the freezing temp. is but didn't have any problem with them @ 20 to 15 degrees F. If you live in colder climate area and it gets colder than 15 degrees F you may have freezing issues but this method has helped me. Good luck and Thank You Randy!

I'm just watching your videos and thank you for the detailed video I would like to know if the cold cranking amps are restored as well. Thanks

it just works, you saw it here!

Distilled water is an acid so it works just not a efficient in the long run but I’m thinking if you did these steps every year or two a battery might last a decade!

the black stuff that come out is the lead off the plates

Jay Wack- I am a chemist, distilled water is not an acid nor is it basic, it is neutral.

@@flyingash I am a comparative theologist - Distilled water is not an acid, nor does it have a soul.