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EEVblog 1508 - We FINALLY Got Alkaline Battery LEAKAGE!

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Fungus:

--- Quote from: scopeman on January 29, 2023, 05:13:20 pm ---I don't know who makes them for Costco but I won't be buying those anymore.

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So what will you be buying instead?  :popcorn:

Electro Detective:

--- Quote from: Fungus on January 30, 2023, 07:08:36 am ---
--- Quote from: scopeman on January 29, 2023, 05:13:20 pm ---I don't know who makes them for Costco but I won't be buying those anymore.

--- End quote ---

So what will you be buying instead?  :popcorn:

--- End quote ---

Costco Alkalines, rated for space travel (preferably return flight travel  :scared: )    with a long use by date,

receipt stored with the batteries in paper form, in a separate vacuum sealed dark plastic bag

and a digital copy kept in the cloud,

the highest cloud cluster possible, in case of claims whilst in space.

 
Leaking alkalines are strong candidates for entry into the 'some things are certain in life' club

alongside death and taxes

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Just today I discovered a sealed 10 pack AA alkalines (Long Life = lol)  from ALDI totally leaked and crusted up
stored alongside my cheapie inspection camera.

Room temperature and aircon etc  Luckily the plastic cover seal held as did the cardboard backing.


Yet a four pack of same blue batteries, in an open heatshrink plastic, supplied with the electronic item, had not leaked

Perhaps alkalines don't like to be stored with no air = ?   :-//

JustMeHere:
Just discovered that a solution of 3% H202 and distilled water does an excellent job of cleaning this up.  WAY BETTER THAN BAKING SOAD!!.   I had it mixed about 10 to 1 with distilled water being the major component. 

ballsystemlord:
Let me posit to you a question, why not just clean (with sandpaper) and/or replace the battery contacts once they leak?

Seriously, I used to do this as a child. It was better than having my toys thrown away by mommy and daddy. I even took part of the aluminum blade on a plastic-wrap container, and bent off a piece until it broke (once the plastic-wrap was exhausted), to use it as a replacement for the no-longer conducting battery contacts on one of my things. That item, a small radio, still works today, IIRC.
So no need to throw out your expensive Fluke DMM and toy train from when you were a boy. :horse: <- Do it.

thm_w:
Finding replacement contacts is not easy.
The steel blade on plastic wrap container is fairly soft, not the same as a carbon steel spring. Although it might work for you which is great.

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