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Aug. 19th, 2002
And as long as I'm feeling cranky...
Aug. 19th, 2002 12:58 amI don't know who made the battery I tried to install this afternoon, but I hope they join the person who designed the ATV I was trying to install it on in burning in Hell.
Because not only did the battery cables make it damned hard to install the new battery, but they designed the goddamn battery posts so that you had to put a small plate inside the post in order for the screw that is supposed to hold the cables in place to be able to do that. The holes in the posts are too wide, you see, so there's no way for the screws to hold anything in place without the tiny plate things.
So anyway, because of the way the damned ATV is designed, there's no way to install the new battery without bending under the piece above where the battery goes, and because of there being no way to reach where the battery goes otherwise, it wound up being impossible to hold the plate bits so that you could line up the screws with them.
So every so often, I decide to give up on the latest attempt to attach either of the cables, and thanks to the awkward damned angle I'm working at, I have to lean the battery forward in order to get the plate bits back to where I can make another futile attempt at lining up things.
Which means that I wound up spilling some of the acid in the damned battery on my hand about five times during the course of the whole debacle. Thankfully there was a hose nearby, so I was able to dilute the acid to the point where it didn't leave any real damage, but still. By the end of the waste of time, I wanted to throw the battery, the ATV, and the people responsible for the designs of both, off the nearest cliff I could find.
But enough about me. How was your day?
Because not only did the battery cables make it damned hard to install the new battery, but they designed the goddamn battery posts so that you had to put a small plate inside the post in order for the screw that is supposed to hold the cables in place to be able to do that. The holes in the posts are too wide, you see, so there's no way for the screws to hold anything in place without the tiny plate things.
So anyway, because of the way the damned ATV is designed, there's no way to install the new battery without bending under the piece above where the battery goes, and because of there being no way to reach where the battery goes otherwise, it wound up being impossible to hold the plate bits so that you could line up the screws with them.
So every so often, I decide to give up on the latest attempt to attach either of the cables, and thanks to the awkward damned angle I'm working at, I have to lean the battery forward in order to get the plate bits back to where I can make another futile attempt at lining up things.
Which means that I wound up spilling some of the acid in the damned battery on my hand about five times during the course of the whole debacle. Thankfully there was a hose nearby, so I was able to dilute the acid to the point where it didn't leave any real damage, but still. By the end of the waste of time, I wanted to throw the battery, the ATV, and the people responsible for the designs of both, off the nearest cliff I could find.
But enough about me. How was your day?
