Wednesday, 28 June 2017

This 10mm battery terminal ratchet makes my eternal screwing up less painful

My cars and bikes have the batteries in hard to reach places. This 10mm battery terminal rachet helps out!

In prepping the Vanagon Westy for a long roadtrip, I found I've killed my house battery. I ordered up a replacement but dreaded getting into the battery box. In a Vanagon, Volkswagen hides the batteries underneath the passenger and drivers seats. Getting at these battery terminals is a comedy of errors and blood. I'd go so far as to say the blood was compulsatory until I got this handy rachet at Harbor Freight.

It is small. It fits where I need it to. It is a rachet, and as such I am not constantly trying to re-seat the fucker while zapping myself against a grounded battery box in a thoughtlessly engineered tight space. At least the put a cover on the batteries, albiet a metal one. My '78 Audi 5000 with occasional self-determination had a passenger bench burnt with splashed battery acid from another VW/Audi underseat battery mistake.

10mm Side-Terminal Battery Reversible Ratchet Wrench Chrome-Plated via Amazon