leaky batteries!

From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwight.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue Dec 2 12:11:02 2003

>From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
>
>On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Joe wrote:
>
>> The BEST thing for leaky batteries is a product called "Lime-Away".
>> It's sold in grocery stores and is used to remove stains caused by hard
>> water. Get the liquid stuff, not the gell. Put it on full strength a
>> wait a few minutes then wash/brush it off. It won't harm plastics. The
>> main ingediant is phosphoric acid and it will leave a phosphate coating
>> on some metals. The phosphate coating is similar to parkerizing and will
>> help prevent future corrosion. It's by far the best thing I've found for
>> corroded batteries.
>
>I'm assuming that CLR ("Calcium, Lime, Rust") is also good? Or is the
>"Calcium-Rust" component of the formula not good for plastics?
>
Hi Sellam
 I suspect that it is the same thing. It may use some other
acid but for the cleaning part it should work OK. I've used
phosphoric acid treatment on a boat trailer that I had to protect
from the dunkings I did in salt water. So far, the paint
has been on for about 10 years and there is no flaking of
the paint caused by rust under the paint. The are some small
rust stain lines where the paint is cracked. If it had been
any other undercoating method, I'm sure these cracks would
have allowed the rust to spread under the paint and peeled
the paint off. It is interesting that I never knew what the
process was called ( Parkerizing ). I do know it works but
often when I talk to other boat people, they don't know what
I'm talking about. Maybe I just didn't use the right name.
Dwight
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