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Mike
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 05:16 pm: | 
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My battery area and cables are pretty corroded. An y suggestions on how to clean this up and stop the corrosion? |
marty amedeo (Marty)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 05:39 pm: |
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Mike
Use baking soda and warm water and scrub it down with a stiff brush. Do the top of the battery also. Rinse it off, let it dry, and then spray the terminals with battery terminal spray that can be found at NAPA. You should be good for long time......... |
Danno (Danno)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 05:39 pm: |
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clean with brush and baking soda, get one of those felt donuts. |
Mike
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 06:30 pm: |
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Thanks |
RJ Clayton (Tozovr)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 08:08 pm: |
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My grandfather used to take a hot glue gun and glue an old penny right next to each terminal...the penny would corrode and everything else was clean as a whistle...I guess the penny would become the sacrificial element.
RJ |
RJ Clayton (Tozovr)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 08:09 pm: |
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I can't beleive I just told a "My grandfather did..." story...sheeeesh...
rj |
ken
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 08:48 pm: |
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if you pour water right on the battery with a bucket and the water is wide enough to touch both terminals at the same time the corrosion will come right off
ken |
Bill Molnar (Circekat)
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 09:14 pm: |
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Hey Ken;
Should we add salt to the water to accelerate the removal of the corrosion?
Kiddies, don't try this at home!
Bill M. |
ken
| | Posted on Monday, September 16, 2002 - 10:50 pm: |
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Bill
I don't get your statment. I've done this many times. Is it dangerous? should I not do it any more?
ken |
M. Recke (Disco_Obsession)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 06:52 am: |
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after cleaning with baking soda and HOT WATER, smear the terminals with Petroleum jelly (Vaseline or the like). |
Paulschram
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 09:07 am: |
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Don't forget your safety glasses! Battery acid is unforgiving.
Don't run with scissors either.
Paul |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 11:22 am: |
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and eat your veggies prior to all this
LOL...baking soda & hot water, then smear some vaseline or or the spray stuff or you can get fancy with an ion exchange experiment  If you let the corrosion go too long, the cables will go and you'll go insane sourcing your starting problem 'cause you'll ignore the obvious. |
gp (Garrett)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 01:17 pm: |
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hell i just snort the shit. that or i just pack it in tylenol caplets and put them back in the bottle for a rainy day. hmmmmm. did i just say that? |
Bill Bettridge (Billb)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 02:05 pm: |
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GP - LOL
Shit, did you forget the corrosion was so bad on yours that we had to pressure wash it off?
Sorry - couldn't resist
Bill |
gp (Garrett)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 03:35 pm: |
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yeah man. and it has come back and it's pissed!! freaking white shit is even down below the battery too. and i got a new 900 CCA battery as well.
i better get busy snorting.
ps: when i was in 5th grade my buddy and i got in trouble for chopping up asprin and snorting it. we thought we were kool. then we woke up with killer headaches. haha |
Bill Molnar (Circekat)
| | Posted on Tuesday, September 17, 2002 - 04:39 pm: |
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Battery terminal cleaning should be a combination of distilled water and baking soda IMHO. Flooding the top of the battery case allows electricity to flow from the positive to the negative terminal in most cases, and this reaction causes HEAT inside of the battery (as well as a release in hydrogen and oxygen vapors in them old sulfuric acid batteries that need maintenance). A nasty event is to flood the top of the battery with non-distilled water and wait for the battery to discharge itself (time depending on the amount of water used and the amount of impurities in the water). Salt water, with its high concentration of electrically conductive sodium chloride, will heat the battery especially quick, and usually boil the water and leave a salt trace between the terminals burnt into the case of the battery. This will render a battery dead. If the salt water enters the battery case through the breather vents, the reaction between teh sulfuric acid solution and the salt water will break the ionic bonds between the sodium and the chlorine atoms, and cause a unique problem: the sodium will burn and generate even more heat and the released chlorine will become a small quantity of toxic gas. Had this reaction occur on a ship I served on during an especially nasty three day storm in the Pacific Northwest area after the boat crew failed to remove the the drain cocks prior to the ship entering the storm area. Had to send the small boat (25 foot motor whale boat) out for complete rewiring and battery replacement. Only took four weeks before the boat came back. Moral of story: distilled water and baking soda is good, old fashioned and very safe if done in small amounts.
Bill M. |
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