[Shop-talk] Rebuilding car batteries

[Steven Trovato]

John,

I don't know of any such service.  There is one company, 
http://www.antiqueautobattery.com/, that sells very realistic looking 
reproductions.  There is another company, http://tartopper.com/ that 
puts some fake plastic stuff around a modern battery.  Perhaps it 
would be possible to take your battery and replace the guts with a 
modern, smaller battery.  You can also try modern battery 
charger/desulphator things, but eventually every battery will die so 
the best you can hope for would be to squeeze out a little more time.

-Steve Trovato
strovato at optonline.net

At 09:28 PM 1/5/2012, John Mitchell wrote:
>Does anyone know of a service that will rebuild a car battery in 
>it's original case?  I've got a Lucas Pacesetter that holds a full 
>charge but when I put a carbon pile load on it, drops very 
>quickly.  Thanks for any help.   John Mitchell    Shelton, CT