TWL: RE: Re: Battery Removal / Installation
Has anyone a cost-effective way to replace heavy (8D @ 160 lbs) batteries
in
an engineroom that does not have standing head room?
I assume you mean cost-effective way to lift them not buy them. Contruct
some kind of lifting device on the ceiling above the batteries. My friend
designed a simple pulley lift and rail system attached to the deck above the
battery. He ties the battery to a block and tackle arrangement and then
lifts the battery using mechanical advantage of the pulleys and then slides
it along a rail attached to the deck out to where he can pick it up. He is
over 70 years old.
If you ever get the 8D's out replace them with golf cart batteries. They are
much easier to handle. Whoever invented the 8D must have been a masochistic,
midget weight-lifter. For mere mortals like myself I am sure they have taken
a year off my life for every time I have tried to hoof them out of the
battery box - never again!
Good luck.
Murray Birch
Alaska Spirit
50' Puget Trawler
Murray Birch wrote:
Has anyone a cost-effective way to replace heavy (8D @ 160 lbs) batteries
in
an engineroom that does not have standing head room?
If you ever get the 8D's out replace them with golf cart batteries. They are
much easier to handle. Whoever invented the 8D must have been a masochistic,
midget weight-lifter.
Murray,
I replaced my hose bank 8d's with golf carts and they are much better as you
say, less expensive, easier to install and they last longer. My start batteries
for the main and wing engines are also 8d's. The generator battery was an odd
shaped 4d. I couldn't get a 4d that fit the battery box so I replaced it with
two 12 volt sealed marine batteries hooked together, they work great. I am
strongly considering the same type of set up when I replace the start batteries
for the main and wing engine. They would certainly be easier to move about and
would probably be less expensive as well.
Dolph McCranie
The Right Whale
All this battery chat has got me
convinced -- change to golf cart bats.
Now, what is a good source of supply
for these?
73
Jim, W3L & K2JXW
ARLHS Member #1
Amateur Radio Lighthouse Society
http://ARLHS.com
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From: owner-trawler-world-list@samurai.com
[mailto:owner-trawler-world-list@samurai.com]On Behalf Of Dolph McCranie
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 22:47 PM
To: Murray Birch
Cc: Trwler World List
Subject: Re: TWL: RE: Re: Battery Removal / Installation
Murray Birch wrote:
Has anyone a cost-effective way to replace heavy (8D @ 160
lbs) batteries
in
an engineroom that does not have standing head room?
If you ever get the 8D's out replace them with golf cart
batteries. They are
much easier to handle. Whoever invented the 8D must have been a
masochistic,
midget weight-lifter.
Murray,
I replaced my hose bank 8d's with golf carts and they are much
better as you
say, less expensive, easier to install and they last longer. My
start batteries
for the main and wing engines are also 8d's. The generator
battery was an odd
shaped 4d. I couldn't get a 4d that fit the battery box so I
replaced it with
two 12 volt sealed marine batteries hooked together, they work great. I am
strongly considering the same type of set up when I replace the
start batteries
for the main and wing engine. They would certainly be easier to
move about and
would probably be less expensive as well.
Dolph McCranie
The Right Whale
At 07:46 PM 1/5/01 -0800, you wrote:
Murray Birch wrote:
Has anyone a cost-effective way to replace heavy (8D @ 160 lbs) batteries
in
an engineroom that does not have standing head room?
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Murray---------Myself and others are enjoying the cost and ease of handling
and capacity of Die HARDS. Three fit where one 8D went and you get a 72
month warranty with a two year free replacement. "What a Deal"
.
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"M/V Driftwood"--Prairie 47
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