Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1918 — STARTING MOTOR IN AN EMERGENCY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STARTING MOTOR IN AN EMERGENCY

Method Devised for Producing Extra Current Is Shown in Illustration. SIX CELLS SECURELY TIED Connected Up by Insulated Wires With Storage Battery Terminals— Keep Bright by Scraping With Sharp Knife. At least 50 per cent of the modern automobiles use battery ignition. As this system sometimes gives trouble, even in the most expensive cars, I devised a method for producing an emergency current as shown in the illustration. Dry Cells Tied Together. This consists of six dry cells securely tied together in a triangle shape and wired in series with a 4-foot length of well insulated copper wire attached to each of the negative and positive terminals. These wires are used to make connections with the storage battery terminals for starting the motor; then they are disconnected. The batteries will last a long time for this emergency work. If the storage battery gives too much trouble,

rempVe the filling caps and make sure JrtfuX the liquid is a half inch above the top of the lead plates. Should the level be below’ this point, add enough distilled water to make up deficiency. Keep Terminals Bright. Keep all the battery and wire terminals bright by scraping them with a sharp knife about once a month, and make sure that there is no short circuit in the dashboard switches and that no battery wire or other wire is chafing against any metal to produce a short circuit. In this way a battery may be kept at its highest efficiency.— P. P. Avery in Popular Science Monthly-

Set of Dry Batteries Placed Under Seat to Aid in Starting Automobile Motor.