Thread: Battery Woes

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Every time I ship a package USPS they routinely ask something like "any hazardous materials, liquids, blah blah blah...." and I always answer no. While in line the other day I glanced at the big poster of "forbidden" things and was surprised to see lithium batteries on there. Not sure if that matters in your case, but if they do random scans yours may have been kicked out of the flow for further consideration.

Originally Posted by DA34GUY

Get a BIGGER CCA and stuff it in and be here Sunday 4 the dead cow, and the LARS trip Roger.
It's all about the journey and the miles of smiles, not worrin about the little stuff.
As yer byline states.

Sounds real good, Don, but I'm not one to cobble something together in a rush when it may not even be necessary. I have two friends running the same little battery (Dennie's one (sg4356 on here), and the other guy has two SBF's that are both fuel injected) that work just fine for them.

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Every time I ship a package USPS they routinely ask something like "any hazardous materials, liquids, blah blah blah...." and I always answer no. While in line the other day I glanced at the big poster of "forbidden" things and was surprised to see lithium batteries on there. Not sure if that matters in your case, but if they do random scans yours may have been kicked out of the flow for further consideration.

Now that's really interesting, Bob! I did answer "No" to that question, as the guys at both XS and Odyssey ship these batteries regularly, and they are classed as noted above. I called the PO, and the local Postmaster said that it should not have been a problem - routine x-ray, etc. He did say, "...not lithium?", and I told him it was a standard gell cell. Again, no way to check on it until fifteen days have passed.

Roger - sounds like an Odyssey PC925 is in your future if you have any doubts about the PC680 size. That PC680 does mine fine, but all I have electronically is the MSD (and of course, the tune player)

As far as USPS - been waiting for an Edelbrock rebuild kit that was sent priority mail last week. No clue where it is except the PO 'knows' it's in their system somewhere between Hither and Yon.

REMEMBER - the USPS is BILLIONS in the red, and that's just this month