The final answer to the car battery on a concrete floor (ruins the floor)

[MidiMagic]

People keep asking about setting a car battery on a concrete floor somehow ruining the battery.

Here is the final answer on the subject.

I have the 1930s Popular Science with the original tip in it (but don't ask me which issue). The auto tip was:

"Leaving a car battery on a concrete floor will ruin it."

I have seen three concrete floors ruined by leaving car batteries on them. Acid vapors ate away at the concrete.

That "it" in the auto tip has too many antecedents.

 

[DaveC426913]

Eek! What is it doing to the bulkheads in my boat?

 

[Guapa]

Oh my, I better get the half dozen I have sitting in my shop, and take them to the recycle facility.