"dpb" wrote in message
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On 08/03/2014 10:28 AM, Tim Wescott wrote:
On Sat, 02 Aug 2014 10:58:32 -0400, Jim Wilkins wrote:
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I bought Autozone's solid brass battery terminal to replace the
previous
replacement and just found that it's too large for the negative
post and
too small for the positive. ...

...

... Either the Autozone parts are just crap, or someone didn't
match
up the battery part # to the clamp part # correctly.
...

I don't know the specific part, but if it doesn't fit a standard
automotive battery terminal post, it probably wasn't intended to but
is for another application.

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The label reads "For post terminal batteries", without specifying
positive or negative.

Do you know of another similar application? Marine battery terninals
fit both automotive and deep-cycle batteries.

I think they made it halfway between the positive and negative post
sizes so one part can be tweaked to fit either, but the brass doesn't
bend as easily with hand tools as a lead alloy terminal. I pounded a
tapered mandrel into it to keep the hole round.

Autozone carries two or three quality/price/warranty levels, whatever
that means when everything comes from China. I don't touch the
patch-it-to-sell-it level.

-jsw