New leisure batteries install delay

[Anjistar]

I have two new (lead acid) leisure batteries and I did have a mechanic lined up to install them but he has lost his toolkit . So the batteries are now going to sit in their boxes for a couple of weeks before I install them myself .

Should I put them on charge in the meantime?

 

[Lenny HB]

2 weeks won't make any odds unless they have been sat at the suppliers for months.

 

[Anjistar]

2 weeks won't make any odds unless they have been sat at the suppliers for months.

How do you tell, Lenny?

 

[mitzimad]

put a meter on see what voltage they are sitting at 12.5 or less i would charge them

 

[Lenny HB]

How do you tell, Lenny?

Should be a manufacture date code on them.

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[poppycamper]

but he has lost his toolkit

??????

 

[donkey]

I could find enough tools to change batteries in one of my kitchen draws

Geoff

 

[Bailey58]

I could find enough tools to change batteries in one of my kitchen draws

Geoff

And in my wife's handbag!

 

[donkey]

I am allowed in the kitchen draws but not in her handbag. Having said that it is always so heavy she probably has a full set of spanners and sockets in there.

Geoff

 

[Pablotti]

The batteries should be fine.

The mechanic losing his toolkit is a much greater concern!

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[Sue and Rick]

I am allowed in the kitchen draws but not in her handbag. Having said that it is always so heavy she probably has a full set of spanners and sockets in there.

Geoff

I’m allowed one drawer but I have to keep it tidy

 

[Shrimp]

’Lost’ toolkit!
More like lost halfwit!

 

[Manic]

Would you need a mechanic, surely an auto electrician would be better.

 

[RowleyBirkinQC]

’Lost’ toolkit!
More like lost halfwit!

‘lost’ due to incompetence or ‘lost’ due to theft maybe?

 

[Anjistar]

??????

Re the lost toolkit, I actually think the truth is he didn't want the job after all, having said he'd do it.
His excuse was he'd lost the toolkit to remove the seat - which even I have enough tools to do, and I'm not the DIY-er here ( though I have been known to build a run of kitchen cabinets when my husband thoughtlessly went away on holiday for three weeks with his mates - that'll teach him - and they're still standing)

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[Bailey58]

Re the lost toolkit, I actually think the truth is he didn't want the job after all, having said he'd do it.
His excuse was he'd lost the toolkit to remove the seat - which even I have enough tools to do, and I'm not the DIY-er here ( though I have been known to build a run of kitchen cabinets when my husband thoughtlessly went away on holiday for three weeks with his mates - that'll teach him - and they're still standing)

What, the units or the blokes?