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Thanks Randy I've just reconditioned 2 X 12 volt batteries (They retail for $245 Australian each) cost me around $15 Aust. for soda and E/salts. Both working great! God bless Y'all.

This video needs more Views. Randy explained that perfectly and showed you every possible thing you need to know without any confusion.

People need life skills like this that you've been sharing/teaching. We are not as interested in string/strumming music. I'm sure your great at strumming but your also great at sharing crucial knowledge like this! Really glad you compressed it down to one simpler video. Keep it up! I appreciate it.

As a Randy trying to find an alternative to spending another $100 on a new snowblower battery AGAIN, I appreciate this fantastic info. Thank you, Randy! I'll be sharing this with another Randy (my dad) who's trying to revive a couple batteries of his own. You the man!

Playing your video 3 times and planning to do it at home with my 2 dead motorcycle batteries , thanks for your video tips Randy

Thanks so much for these battery videos. Your time and effort is appreciated. Stay well stay blessed. Ash from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Thanks Randy....it worked over a year ... God bless!

HOLD ON. A luthier AND a chemist? Is there no end to this man's talents? Most useful info. Thanks so much, Randy. Will be put to good use here on the farm. Big thumb's WAY up.

Thank you Sir, followed your video to the note and you just saved me $233 on a new battery. Good job.

One of my professors at the University: " It is not a miracle, boys, it is Chemistry"... LOL The video reminded me of the gentleman... Cheers Bro, catching up with your vids!

Thank you so much brother. This is a huge money saver. We all appreciate you very much. God bless you. I'm also in WV. Almost Heaven!

Thank you for the video, Randy!

Outstanding, thanks for the great info, I'm restoring some old lead acid batteries with your techniques, thanks again.

Excellent video ,well done and cheers for sharing with us all, I appreciate it. Your a RU-vid superstar now so enjoy and stay safe buddy..

Thanks so much Randy you saved me about $80!!! Worked as advertised!!!

I'll bet u just saved me thousands of dollars over the rest of my life. I'm going to bring 5 batteries back tonight. Cant wait.

Just found your video thank you very much. not know this I appreciate you showing us how to recondition batteries. you just save me some money. Thank you

I tried this and can’t believe how well it worked I followed his directions exactly and the battery turned out as good as new it’s used on a large generator it even sat for a little over a month and when I went to start it up it started as if it had s new battery in it be fore if it sat for more than a couple days I would have to jump it

Vraiment intéressante vidéo, le Monsieur a l'air d'un type bien sympathique ( France )

yep ,when you cleaning by bubbling it ,the baking soda neutralizes the battery acid, and when you refill it the epson salt is the electrolite batteries need to speed up the acid forming process then energize. great video easy to understand

Unbelievable Randy, So I reconditioned a 6 pac of Trojan T145's 8 months ago. It took close to a month to complete the process on all 6 and charge them totally by solar. The results, they are still charging to 97% of what new batteries do and run a household of 3800 sq. ft. I neutralized the batteries 10x and bounced them around off road in the back of my 4 wheel drive after the 5th baking soda treatment. Thanks for the vid that bank of batteries cost is aprox $1500.00 to replace.

Well Randy, another great "Save"! Not only do you save money, one less battery to be recycled! It's a win-win situation. Like your other videos, it's a win-win situation! Thanxz

thanks for this info Randy,

Great video Randy I have 6 battery that m Needs this. Tks

Thanks a lot man save me money and learned a lot thanks again. Saving my car battery and lawn mower battery.

Thanks for the information

Man, thats amazing, so cool, thank you for sharing.

Great info, many thanks.

Can't wait to try it

Super idea Randy, wonder why the viewership is very less for such a fantastic idea. For the environment too. Thanks, dude.

Very useful , thank you Randy, Cheers

Came across your video and my original comment again, so I thought I would post my experience. I first saw your battery video series back a year or so ago. I tried your baking soda/epsom salt method multiple times on multiple batteries. Rising them out with baking soda solution multiple times until clear. filling with epsom salt, and charging for days, checking each day to see amp levels ect. I didn't really have any success with it on any of them. Got plenty bubbles on most. But some of them didn't do anything but hold a surface voltage, but only low amps. Others kind of worked, but only for a short time. not sure if I did something wrong, or what. Really wanted it to work and really tried. But in the end, i mostly just spent a lot of time and didn't get much results. And just as a point, I'm used to fixing, repair, fabricating, ect ect. I like doing things myself, have always done so most of my life. Also because I don't have the $ to hire anyone anyway LoL

Good vid dude. Rite now I'm work in on a 2011 Wal-Mart tractor Bart I use for the 50 up rude and tractor. It starts everything but has lost capacity. I charged. Checked gravity. All cell equil. At fair. Gravity. Drained acid. Flushed 10 times. Until clean flush. Added old filtered acid. @ 12 .0 volts. It's all charging now and bubbling!. We will see. No baking soda or e salts . Bill Ashby. Mass

Wow you are awesome! I just watched and learned. My parent probably won't let me do it.👍😁

Great tip...Thanks

gr8 video. one question what would be trickle charge amp for a 12 v 100 amp battery?

Good job

I really appreciate you for thorough and very clear descriptions. I have watched countless videos about this but I think yours are the best. I have always wanted to go into the business of battery reconditioning in Nigeria. That is the more reason I shall not be tired watching your videos. However, should I apply the same process when I am reconditioning deep cycle batteries used for solar applications? I have always noticed something common with the videos.about battery reconditioning. The common thing is the use of car lead acid battery in presentation. Can you use a deep cycle battery (GEL, AGM) including tubular batteries for presentation? .Thank you in anticipation of your kind response.

thanks for your informative videos. Europe Malta

Great video thank you

Thank you Randy.

Yes Randy. It's the battery acid specific gravity per cell with a hydrometer @ temp. And voltage. Tells the real condition of your battery. In the battery restoration projects that your into! Yankee Willie Ashby.

Thanks man will try.

Hi Randy. Specific gravity and voltage is the key. To voltage and battery capacity !

Hi, Randy! Thank you for the superb help. One question: I understand there are different percentages of sulfate and of magnesium in different types of EPSOM salts. Could you please inform what are the percentages in the EPSOM salts you have been using? Thanks in advance once again for your fantastic help to everybody.

Use a small wire to jiggle and force Soda through the funnel much easier and faster- I have done this with other dry powers or granulated substances. Just a helpful hint-you probably know this.

Going to do this to my e bike batteries this winter.

Excellent video. Really enjoyed watching it and learned a lot from it. I could understand maybe how some people would compare you to Popcorn Sutton. However you remind me of a ole boy I grew up around. He was much older than me. Youins look a lot alike, have the same mannerisms and disposition. His name was Fonzie and he would build old school handtail Harley's out of his garage. A lot of times he even built the springer frontend. As far as adding water and stuff to that battery, try a turkey baster.

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Great video. You demonstrated that before you start your process; the first thing you do is charge the battery with the old acid. Have you tried emptying the old acid first, then prepare your banking soda solution, pour that to the empty cells and giving it a 1amp charge over night to better activate the baking soda chemical thus better separating the acid crystals from the cells? Thanks Frank Vietnam Vet

You would fit right in in west Texas

You know why you're getting more airtime because people are tired of throwing away batteries that can be repaired at home instead of throwing away money God bless brother

Hello! I just have a couple of questions, once it's charged up do you leave the epsom salt in the battery? Or do you do a half and half with epsom salt and water and battery acid? And I noticed you said your voltage was dropping in part 3 at the end, but it has enough power to start if you switch it off and leave it for the night will it be able to start again the next morning if the voltage drops?

you saved me brother.......................... good deal..................... preciate it a lot

Cool video thanks for sharing. My brother needs a battery for his riding mower. I will show him this video. "He is to tight to buy a new battery, lol." Thanks for sharing. Many thumbs up. I hope you have a blessed week. btw, Buy yourself a Dollar Tree funnel. And cut the end out of it. The powder will flow much easer.

Another question can I do this to golfcart batteries? Thanks in advance

Wow, this is so useful and informative. Thanks Randy, thanks a lot

Two Questions come to mind : Would it help to flush the battery out with clear water real good after the Baking Soda clear flush, just before the Epsom Salt solution is poured in, or does it even matter.... Second, after the initial trickle charge, can subsequent charges, if needed, be faster or smart chargers - something higher than 1 or 2 amps?

I have read that Sulfation problems are primarily the sulfation between cell plates and the sulfation that drops to the bottom of the battery which is shorting out the plates at the bottom.. Might be a good idea on the first step with the acid still in to turn it over and whack it with a rubber mallet or wood to shake it off of the plates and bottom and then dump it.. Might also try the first time, shooting a spray of water into the battery and shaking it around and dumping it to loosen the deposits.. Get it as clean as possible and then start with the soda.. Might save a few boiling trips.. Just some thoughts watching your video.. I had to buy 2 950cca batteries for my bus.. Ouch and have a big tractor battery that I have to replace now $200.00.. What the hell more than time and some epsom salt sitting in the cabinet do I have to loose?? Ha.. Fixing to rip it out and give it a whirl... Thanks for the video.. You sound like a NC mountain man.. Ha.. Cheers.

The water won't freeze if you do exactly as instructed here. The lead plates will react with water to make sulfuric acid. Same goes for adding water to a battery. Do it in warm weather or charge in heated garage.

Man if you can figure a way to do this with strings,,,,,hell. Git vid's got me here and I love them. Peace bud.

Have you ever tryed to refill the battery with acid after desulfation? Does it work or you need to keep it with the epsom salt solution?

12:38, That’s going to be the acid when it charges up. So I googled a seemingly stupid question. Is Sulphuric Acid the same as Epson Salts? This is the google comment. copy/pasted. ( I did not add anything to this google comment) Epsom salt is magnesium sulphate - MgSO4. Its no different electrolytically than sulphuric acid - H2SO4. There is a possibility that there will be some MgO saltsbeing deposited on the plates, but essentially instead of H+ ions moving around, you have Mg2+ ions moving.May 5, 2013

you don't have to take the old battery acid to a landfill, just add enough baking soda to it and it will completely neutralize it. I used to work in automotive, and had to deal with batteries on a daily basis, we had acid spills, boil overs (if the charger screwed up) and more. We kept a 5 gallon bucket of baking soda with a scoop and used it to neutralize all spills in accordance with regulations.

Hi, can I use to clean the battery with strong 10 ph alkaline water instead of using soda mixed with water I think it safer compared with baking soda? Alkaline hot water will remove all dirt and buildup in the battery, I already tested on my coffee cup it removes completed all stain buildup from coffee. Distilled water is acidic ph 5, topwater normal ph 7 and alkaline water ph 8 or more, ph 10 is very strong to clean all dirt and buildup inside of the battery.

Coo stuff thanks! Have you tried converting batteries to Alum batteries? I've heard its even better but idk! Thanks and God Bless!

Speaking from experience and as a ASE certified master technician,Sometimes the batteries are too diminished of catalyst. And for better results don't trickle charge but short high amp low volt pulse width modulated heavy dwell saturation of current will give the plates a better chance of flaking off any scaling.also alot of times there's irreversible wear and tear or damage causing a "dead cell" . The method he's showing is a cool 50\50 shot of working but it's not a guaranteed thing. especially if the battery has been depleted to 0 volts, dry , dropped or overheated then your bout outta luck .

Thanks, I am for sure going to try it out, is the water qty american gallon or brittish gallon? 3,7 litres versus 4,5 litres might have an effect?

Hi, can you use battery acid instead of the salt water? thanks.

Thank you

thanks for the great tips Friend now here's one for you , I just has a coronary from smoking (I quit 32 years ago), got asthma 5 years after I quit, ...and don't tall me I should have kept on haha...I am trying your ideas today...God bless you and yours...doug (kanada)

Can anyone tell me if the Epson salt and water solution will freeze in the winter or does it go through some chemical change to prevent that? Also, why can't you use a regular charger?

Do you think this would work for power wheels batteries?

Have you thought of flushing them with running water to help the cleaning process?

Hi Randy.. Warm greetings from India. Gave a lot of thought2ur pretty comprehensive vdo,s and was wondering why many of haven't done what you've suggested all this time. That's hard work and three days boss, I agree, but if it works the way you've declared what the#*@+&... You're a bright & a rather talented man. I'd like 2 try this out on my Renault Duster whose battery is becoming pretty lazy nowadays. And Hey! I hope it works. Have a nice day...

Is it possible to clarify for us one more time? We are grateful for the investigation done.

Just a quick question.Wouldn't the Cen-Tech 2-10-50 Charger from Harbor Freight work ok using 2 Amp Mode?

Hi Randy, I meant to say Gud Vid! My typing F-ed up big time. If you have an old battery that's been sitting around five years or so is it worth a try? I'm gonna try and will let you know. Thanks again you Good Ole String Plucker Bro! DavetJO

gonna try this on some 6v deep cycle batteries

Beg your pardon. I commented before watching your complete video.

should i use fine or caorse epsom salt?

Don't know if you are still answering questions But what if you put it on a charger on low to actually boil it out

Great video! A lot easier measurements given vs several motorhead sites I visited. I do have one question though, why is it important to trickle charge vs the normal starter battery charge setting?

I saw your video, it's very interesting. I have a battery that has a date of 3/10. I've lost count how many times I cleaned it out, possibly 15 times. It's starting to run clear, I'm going to do it two or three more times to be on the safe side. It's a 12-volt EverStart marine battery I want to use it on a solar power setup. It's 125 amp hours, under the circumstances of being solar. Would you still use the salt and the distilled water. Or would you rather just go with acid. If this works for the saltwater like you say it does and I hope it does. I've got another one, I really like your video. The water has a slight tint to it, very little residue. It's really not enough mention about

The battery acid will not eat through a plastic jug?

Good video.... Instead of using Baking soda use one quarter of that amount in Sodium hydroxide (NaOH)...... Then you will have a new battery...... Oh and stand back when adding.

can be done with sea salt or just epsom salt?

How long does it take to recondition the battery altogether

Are you using epsom salt and distilled water for cost reasons? Why not use acid. Thanks in advance.

did you use disfilled water or just tap water?

Do u put the original battery acid that u poured out at the start back in? If not what liquid is in the battery once all flushed with baking soda solution? Is it epsom solution?

I may have missed it, but when you're cleaning out the batt with the solution of water and baking soda-is it distilled or tap water???

nice, but i got a power wheels 12 volt battery ,can you help?

Would it not be better to keep the original acid from the battery and strain it good and put it back in after cleaning? Just a thought

Does this work for AGM batteries?

Would it be bad if I let it charge on 5 amp's?

Couldn’t get it to revive my big atv battery but it did work on a battery for little China atv so I guess that’s a win

Great job did some 6volt solar batteries for my solar. Worked great . Gonna try some completely dead 12 volt batteries just for fun. But I think they may work again if I do multiple baking soda bath. Well see

will it fix a baot battery

Very clear video, well, I got a question, "what about dilute sulphuric acid , will I have to use it again. I didn't see you use it?