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Leaking Dry Batteries!!

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John Swift:
Hi Frank

welcome to Mad Modders

I don't know if you have read this -
http://madmodder.net/index.php/topic,2583.msg45845.html#msg45845

an old post about recharging batteries

    John

Pete W.:
Hi there, Andrew and Frank,

Thank you both for your posts.

Andrew, Servisol contact cleaner is a stock item in my 'alchemy' cupboard.

Frank, it's OK to have 'bumped' this thread as it reminds me that this keyboard job is still outstanding.  It got displaced to the back burner by our annual 'tidy the living-room ready for Christmas' ritual!!!  I never use WD40 on electrical contacts since a fellow member of Hornchurch Amateur Radio Club sprayed WD40 on the multi-wafer wave-change switch in her communications receiver - it NEVER worked again!!  I might use WD40 as a water dispersant but only where there is no question of it getting on sliding or make-&-break electical contacts.  (I know I'm the only one in-step but I don't use it as a cutting lubricant for aluminium either!  What's wrong with the smell of white spirit for goodness sake?!?!) 

awemawson:
I'm sure decades ago I used to go to 'radio rallies' at Hornchurch ARC  :bugeye:

Frank88:
Thanks for the welcome. I only use the WD 40 on simple AC or DC circuits, mostly solar yard lights, flashlights and the like. Thanks for the heads up as caution indicated. Wonder if the phenolic in the wafers became impregnated?. Found this after reading your most welcome comments - http://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/showpost.php?p=801602&postcount=1

Bluechip:
I wouldn't use WD40 for electrical parts either. Been caught in the past.  :zap:

Although I do use it for machining aluminium and it is quite effective for downing wasps prior to the application of the 'compression test' boot.

Dave

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