Wingnut Follies
When I bought the travel trailer, it was sold with the understanding that the battery was basically toast. It still gave an output, but wasn't strong enought to run the slide-out.
After I got it home, I removed the battery and put a better one off of my old travel trailer on it. Took off the battery cell covers and sure enough, the acid level was quite low. I thought that I might fill the cells and put a battery charger on it and see if it recovers. To hook up the charger, I decided to put the wing nuts back on so there would be an easy place to attach the charger and a multimeter.
Guess what?
It turns out that the wing nut (after the threads fail to start and it falls) will just fit down the open hole and down inside the battery! An attempt to fish it out only resulted in losing sight of it altogether. Oh well...the battery was probably trashed anyway. Thankfully, I have another battery to put on the old travel trailer.
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