My niece spilled chocolate milk on her Sponge Bob video game and it later quit working. My investigation showed that the AA battery holder had suffered some mild corrosion/oxidation thus effectively turning off the little machine. After a good cleaning all is well now.
Is there a product out there that can be applied to batteries and their contact points to minimize or eliminate high resistance because of corrosion/oxidation?
Fine sandpaper does the job.
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radio shack is selling small quantities of de-oxit... but this is mainly for switch and relay contacts and pots.
on really bad corroded battery contacts i start off with baking soda on a damp rag then move on to a brass brush, steel wool, burnishing tool or whatever cleaner/abrasive seems appropriate at the time. sometimes i use the wire brush or polishing wheel on a Dremel tool. sandpaper folded back over a pencil and taped makes a handy tool. for lightly tarnished surfaces a standard pencil eraser is very effective.
Hello, Silver! You wrote on Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:13:41 -0500:
SS> My niece spilled chocolate milk on her Sponge Bob video game and it SS> later quit working. My investigation showed that the AA battery holder SS> had suffered some mild corrosion/oxidation thus effectively turning off SS> the little machine. After a good cleaning all is well now.
SS> Is there a product out there that can be applied to batteries and their SS> contact points to minimize or eliminate high resistance because of SS> corrosion/oxidation?
After cleaning, smear grease on the contacts to prevent further corrosion. Almost any grease will do, even vaseline, but there are products specially formulated for this sort of thing. For such a cheap item though I would just use the vaseline.
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