[RE-wrenches] Trojan T-105 non-vented shipping caps?

[Drake Chamberlin]

Can you get caps from scrap batteries and seal them with with 
silicone?   Use these as plugs.



At 10:53 AM 7/30/2010, you wrote:
>Esteemed Wrenches;
>
>Hopefully Ronald from Trojan can help me here, or maybe someone else 
>has done this.
>
>In my recent remote Northern BC install, we have a pair of T-105s at 
>a remote location, installed in a plastic cooler. They will need to 
>be moved to the central Lodge install for winter maintenance 
>charging, as their installed location gets *zero* sun for 3 months 
>of the winter.
>
>The lodge staff will be moving the cooler via 
>helicopter....*hopefully* on the back seat, but it may be part of a 
>long-line sling load. They have had some pretty harrowing sling load 
>work this year, including a broken skid on the helo and some trees 
>that got a 'haircut.' I can almost guarantee that had the batteries 
>been on that load, they would have lost some electrolyte from tipping.
>
>My question is -- are "shipping caps" with *no vent holes* 
>available? Or could we use plastic baggies? I hate the idea of the 
>lodge staff accidentally getting bits of plastic bag into the cells.
>
>DAN FINK
>Buckville Energy Consulting LLC
>http://www.buckville.com/
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Drake Chamberlin
Athens Electric
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