Battery Leakage

[Edward B Richards]

Baking soda will neutralize an acid like sulfuric acid in a lead/acid
battery, but alkaline batteries are basic and require an acid to
neutralize them. Vinegar or lemon juice are a weak acid.

Ed
 
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 00:37:44 -0400 Ron Lawrence W4RON
<W4RON at CAROLINA.RR.COM> writes:
> Wouldn't a little baking soda and water take care of it?
> Brush it on with a small paint brush and let it dry.
> 
> 73, Ron w4ron
> 
> 
> Edward B Richards wrote:
> > I put the parts in a coffee can with enough vinager to cover them. 
> Heat
> > them to a boil and let them stand a while. Complete removal of the 
> junk.
> >
> > Ed  K6UUZ
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 20:17:25 -0400 Tim Richardson
> > <timrichardson at BELLSOUTH.NET> writes:
> >   
> >> I've had some luck using white vinegar and a toothbrush sized 
> brass 
> >> brush...
> >>
> >> Tim Richardson W4IOU
> >>
> >> /
> >> /
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Lewis C. Emerson wrote:
> >>     
> >>> Hi Fellow Hams,
> >>> For a number of reasons I'm sadly having to leave the game 
> (after 
> >>>       
> >> 63+ wonderful years) and am in the throes of downsizing.  My 
> >> daughter, who's here helping, ran across a favorite little Ham 
> >> gadget of mine that I'd misplaced earlier, "Coach Morse" - a 
> small 
> >> wonderful code training gadget developed by a former Boy Scout of 
> 
> >> mine and now an Electronic Engineer at the Univ. of Maine.  I'd 
> left 
> >> the three AA Alkaline batteries in it and when opened there was 
> >> significant leakage  and the battery compartment is "gooked up".
> >>     
> >>> Do any of you have a suggestion of how to clean up that goop on 
> 
> >>>       
> >> the battery terminals?
> >>     
> >>> Many thanks,
> >>> Doc, W4ITJ
> >>>   
> >>>   
> >>>       
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