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	<title>Farmer Mold &#38; Machine Works</title>
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	<description>Innovation and history in the battery industry.</description>
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		<title>BP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner
[44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery  Machinery]
Sorry! At this time in our country and especially for  those of us on the Gulf Coast, as well as the Atlantic Coast I simply  cannot  bring myself to return right now to Top Lead.
The challenge is going to be to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lardberg</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner
[44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery]
No! I have not lost it. I actually have seen lardbergs and I saw them in a battery factory. At the time they were a big part of my early on life as a factory manager.
Before I can tell the story though I have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.farmermold.com/wordpress/?p=89</link>
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		<title>Top Lead Two - a continuation of What Top Lead (Pb) Means to All of Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner[44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery]
Okay, if you are a hard core battery man then you truly did read Top Lead One and you have been reminded of the many changes to our industry that came when the plastic polypropylene battery cases were introduced for automotive SLIG batteries. Out went [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Lead One - What Top Lead (Pb) Means To All of Us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just in case you are not quite sure what I mean about top Pb then here is one explanation. Top Pb is all the Pb at the top of the battery. It is the Pb that connects the plates of a cell. The Pos. plates on one side and the Neg. plates on the other. Each cell has 2 cell posts. Again, one will be Pos. and the other Neg. The cells are connected together in series to form a battery of cells by using a Pb connector. Each connector connects the Pos. post of one cell to the Neg. post of the adjacent. Three Pb cells gave us the 6-volt batteries and 6 cells gave us out 12 volt batteries. The two end cells have a special post added to them and these are main terminal Pos. and Neg. post. These posts are used to connect the battery of cells to the electrical system's terminal cables. In short the Top Pb is the internal electrical conductor of a battery. ]]></description>
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		<title>The Tale of Two Machines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner[44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery]
Machines have many tales but I am prompted to write here from something I overheard years ago from a man that was at the time a leader in our Industry. Mr. Charles Graves.
I do not know the entire story about Mr. Graves and how he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cap (with a filter) and Prosper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course my Topic Title is a play with words which we will be hearing much about in the next few weeks. So, if you are expecting to glean from the following any needed information about today’s Cap and Trade problems you will be disappointed.

My intentions here are pure because when I think of Cap and Trade I think of industrial smoke stacks. The smoke stacks I am most familiar with are in our battery industry. ]]></description>
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		<title>It is time to be truthful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Hugh Abner[44 Years and Counting Manufacturing Batteries and Battery Machinery]
It is beginning to look as if I might be asked to do a few more of these little discussions that will touch on the minor sides of battery and machinery manufacturing so it is time I quit lying about why I have had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Cars Pb-Acid Wise</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After nearly two years of working through the first layer of a management training program – (Shoveling Pb-oxide paste into a hopper, stacking grids onto a pallet, hammering on cell covers and loading trucks one battery at a time.) – I knew all about management. The company agreed and they let me finally move to Florida so I could work in the laboratory where I learned to make metallic Pb appear out of a glob of paste. Along with that I learned how to freeze a battery and then squeeze millions of electrons from it. (Yes! Squeeze is the correct word. Some of you too used the old stacked carbon block resistor discharge racks so you know about squeezing).This was really great stuff and it kept me in touch with what was happening at the upper levels of things.

One of the upper level happenings was being able to sign up and be on the list to drive and use for personal trips the company’s electric test car. Immediately after learning of the list of potential test drivers I was hooked.]]></description>
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