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4SPEED427


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You old guys can't play, you'll know right away what this is I'm betting.

What is this?

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Eye think I know.


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Be better if the image were level



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its missing a big red rubber thingbiggrin



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I said young guys you old geezers!

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cdnpont wrote:

Be better if the image were level

 And focused. My $40 phone from Walmart in Phoenix takes lousy pictures!



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I know i am an old guy but that has to be a carpet stretcher . 



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You guys are laughing. I still dont know what it is...nowinkwink



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Conditions have to be just right to know what it is.



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For size reference-

 

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Hmmm........this is very puzzling........two puzzles........one being what the heck is this and the other is me wondering if I am in the young guy or old geezer category......


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How young, 

ive got a guess.



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How young, 

ive got a guess.

 



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I bet Pontiax is correct, this has to be the correct answer!

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I always wondered how those eyes worked! I think maybe Clint was providing a covert tip.....



-- Edited by 68 Grande on Monday 11th of November 2019 08:48:22 PM

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Yes he is correct. But he semi cheated! He's middle-aged... He's just not one of the old geezers.

 

If you look in the last picture I posted you can see the little green ball. That thing floats up when the specific gravity is high enough and you can see that green when you look in the eye. The problem with those is it only shows the condition of that cell. You can have a bad cell in the battery and that eye can be  green! It was a sales gimmick.



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mike667 wrote:

You guys are laughing. I still dont know what it is...nowinkwink

Don't feel bad! I don't expect younger guys to know but I was hoping maybe someone would. If I'm remembering right this Delco feature was discontinued in the mid-to-later 70s batteries.



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Can we make this a permanent game. With 5000 members it could get interesting. 



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4SPEED427 wrote:
mike667 wrote:

You guys are laughing. I still dont know what it is...nowinkwink

Don't feel bad! I don't expect younger guys to know but I was hoping maybe someone would. If I'm remembering right this Delco feature was discontinued in the mid-to-later 70s batteries.

 Did this feature stop with the side post/ maintenance free batteries? I cant recall the first year for side post. Im guessing 73.for the trucks.



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4SPEED427 wrote:
mike667 wrote:

You guys are laughing. I still dont know what it is...nowinkwink

Don't feel bad! I don't expect younger guys to know but I was hoping maybe someone would. If I'm remembering right this Delco feature was discontinued in the mid-to-later 70s batteries.

 

Carl, Delco might have discontinued that feature but my Ford Motorcraft battery in my 2012 F150 had a eye.  At least I think it was my F150 or could have been our 2013 Escape that my kids drive, but the point is these eyes are still being used today.



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4SPEED427 wrote:
mike667 wrote:

You guys are laughing. I still dont know what it is...nowinkwink

Don't feel bad! I don't expect younger guys to know but I was hoping maybe someone would. If I'm remembering right this Delco feature was discontinued in the mid-to-later 70s batteries.

 Did this feature stop with the side post/ maintenance free batteries? I cant recall the first year for side post. Im guessing 73.for the trucks.

 I know my mom's 72 Malibu had this eye and that was side post.



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68 Grande wrote:
4SPEED427 wrote:
mike667 wrote:

You guys are laughing. I still dont know what it is...nowinkwink

Don't feel bad! I don't expect younger guys to know but I was hoping maybe someone would. If I'm remembering right this Delco feature was discontinued in the mid-to-later 70s batteries.

 

Carl, Delco might have discontinued that feature but my Ford Motorcraft battery in my 2012 F150 had a eye.  At least I think it was my F150 or could have been our 2013 Escape that my kids drive, but the point is these eyes are still being used today.

 I've told this story here before but likely many haven't heard it. 

I picked up this exact battery eye when I toured the Delco battery plant in Ontario.  It was part of a Canadian GM Parts Manager's convention I went to. As we were going through the plant I saw the big bin full of those eyes. I asked the tour guide if I could have one for a souvenir and he was happy to let me take one. Then I asked him if that eye really did only measure the specific gravity of the one cell and if it wasn't just a sales gimmick. His reply with a bit of a smile was "yes"...



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...and I was thought it was a Delco Suppository Applicator made special for GM parts counter guys

when dealing with annoying customers. aww

 



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LOL, I haven't had many over the years that I'd want to use it on but I will admit there's been a few since I started as a jobber counter guy in 1976.

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