SacramentoMike
Not Safe For Work
Or: Hints from Heloise.
Well, first I left the damn ignition turned on till I killed my battery a couple weeks back. When I went to jump start it with the heavy-duty cables in my truck, I had a HELL of a time grabbing the dinky little terminals with the big honking jumper clamps.
So I went out to the garage and found a piece of scrap bar steel. Cut it into a couple of 3-inch sections and ground the burrs off the ends. Put a couple of rubber bands around them and tossed them into my side case.
Sure enough, did the same damn thing again this week. Got the truck, got the cables out, and grabbed my handly little Jumper Cable Helpers and clamped THEM instead of the battery terminals. All I had to do was TOUCH the bars to the terminals--Voila! Helps if there's someone with you to hold one of the clamps to one of the terminals while you hit the starter, but you could do it alone too. Now if I can just invent an audible alarm that will tell me when I'm walking away from the bike with the key "on." duh.
Anyway, just send me fifty cents every time you use this idea. Royalties. Thank you.
Well, first I left the damn ignition turned on till I killed my battery a couple weeks back. When I went to jump start it with the heavy-duty cables in my truck, I had a HELL of a time grabbing the dinky little terminals with the big honking jumper clamps.
So I went out to the garage and found a piece of scrap bar steel. Cut it into a couple of 3-inch sections and ground the burrs off the ends. Put a couple of rubber bands around them and tossed them into my side case.
Sure enough, did the same damn thing again this week. Got the truck, got the cables out, and grabbed my handly little Jumper Cable Helpers and clamped THEM instead of the battery terminals. All I had to do was TOUCH the bars to the terminals--Voila! Helps if there's someone with you to hold one of the clamps to one of the terminals while you hit the starter, but you could do it alone too. Now if I can just invent an audible alarm that will tell me when I'm walking away from the bike with the key "on." duh.
Anyway, just send me fifty cents every time you use this idea. Royalties. Thank you.