6 hours ago
Yep.
It had handles on either side, and it took two reasonably strong men to carry it.
We had that Soviet FIAT 500 clone for a car, and starting it on a cold winter morning (and we lived in Southern Russia!) took some doing.
The car's own battery (and we had serviceable ones, where you measure the electrolyte specific gravity and add distilled water if needed etc) would get farly anaemic, and so the tank battery would get hooked up.
Sometimes, as that extra help, some oild would have to be drained, put in a tea kettle (we had an old aluminum one dedicated specifically to this) and set on a gas stove to make it hot; then it would get poured right back, and then thet car would get cranked.
Imagine several morning in a row like this, after you get up and are ready to go to work.
It had handles on either side, and it took two reasonably strong men to carry it.
We had that Soviet FIAT 500 clone for a car, and starting it on a cold winter morning (and we lived in Southern Russia!) took some doing.
The car's own battery (and we had serviceable ones, where you measure the electrolyte specific gravity and add distilled water if needed etc) would get farly anaemic, and so the tank battery would get hooked up.
Sometimes, as that extra help, some oild would have to be drained, put in a tea kettle (we had an old aluminum one dedicated specifically to this) and set on a gas stove to make it hot; then it would get poured right back, and then thet car would get cranked.
Imagine several morning in a row like this, after you get up and are ready to go to work.
People who do not drink, do not smoke, do not eat red meat will one day feel really stupid lying there and dying from nothing.
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