Re: OT? Tips for repairing corroded battery terminals

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sand off the corroded bits with fine emery paper or wet & dry,
then use
bits of kitchen tin foil to wedge between the end of the batteries and the
terminals in the case.
Worked for me where a design fault meant the remote control batteries
wouldn't touch the terminals 'cos the plastic moulding was improperly
shaped...

HTH,

Tim.


On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Simon Haslam
<simon_haslam@xxxxxxx>wrote:

> Here's a question that might be a little off topic, but about
something
> very useful to those of us crawling through voids to feed CAT5
cables...
>
> I've got an Energizer "head light" which is like a small
miner's lamp but
> with LEDs. It has been a really useful purchase - the white LEDs are
bright
> and reasonably well focussed. It used 3 AAA batteries (also Energizer)
> which have leaked (less impressive) and corroded 3 of the copper
terminals.
> Now, with new batteries, the LEDs only glimmer and typically stop
working
> by the time you've got the case closed again.
>
> I've done a bit of Googling and there seem various solutions for
cleaning
> up the terminals from dissolving them in stuff, sanding them down to
> tinning them with a soldering iron. I suspect I can't get the metal
bits
> out of the plastic body without wrecking it. Any suggestions, ideally
that
> will last a year or two without further attention?
>
> Simon


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