Friday, Oct 07, 2016 at 11:18
Yeh .... seems there are a few people pissing in your pocket here.
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1/ ... if the
battery is a sealed type
battery you should not be getting much in the way of corrosion on the terminals,
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As has been mentioned ..... If it is a sealed
battery and you are getting corrosion is is quite likley that you have leakage around the
battery terminal. ....... there realy is no way of sealing this up.
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This may not be a problem in the short term, but in the long term the
battery will no longer be sealed and will be loosing gas an vapor ..... so fluid levels my drop .... bla bla bla
battery failure.
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Another issue is that this leakage may be due to internal corrosion on the
battery post..... this is not uncommon and there is a remote possibility that the
battery post may fail ..... pull out/fall off or the connection to the internals may fail.
If it is not a sealed
battery ..... terminal corrosion is pretty much normal.
2/ on the matter of
battery terminal treatments ....... yeh its pretty hard to go past ordinary grease or Vasoline.
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There is a yellow
battery terminal spray ...... I baught a tin of this goop a while back ....... I realy doubt that it does any good .... appart from that it is a PITA to clean off
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I recon the role of
battery terminal sprays is to produce " customer satisfaction" gives mechanics something visible to spray on
battery terminals.
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3/ yeh people have been cleaning their
battery terminals with bicarb for a very long time ........ bicarb stired in cold water is just fine .... if it fizzes its working.
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Heating the water will hep bicarb disolve ..... but it realy does not need to disolve all that
well
with non sealed batteries it's worth taking the
battery out ...... cleaning where it sits and sloshing a bit of bicarb and water around there .... to neutralise any spilled acid.
Remember if it is a normal automotive
battery sealed or unsealed and it is over 2 or 3 years old it's due for replacement ...... if it is an exotic
battery like AGM it might last a bit longer.
cheers
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