You are correct, Doug about the battery cables, but years ago they used to make the negative cable out of a lead wire mesh. Now days, they just use the same type cable on the negative and the positive terminals.......... Question: Couldn't you just neutrilize the battery plates with a baking soda solution before you used them?........... The danger, of course is breaking the batteries apart to get the lead plates out and not having the acid splash on you. (Reminds me of a job I had in an automotive electrical shop years ago, and on my first day on the job I sat down on a truck battery to eat my lunch. OOPS!!) Speaking of batteries, now that the cold winter is here, you guys may be jumping cars with dead batteries. So be careful. Good luck.
