How to to get rid of Battery corrosion Vintage on Handhelds?

rainlynx

Is there a special solution to get rid of years long Battery corrosive? Can you use rust off since it looks like rust?

bleepytoys · Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2008 7:59 am Post subject:

hi rainlynx

i don't know rust off, but there are a few things you can do about that:

- check if you have a game from the same series as spare and use the better ones (you'll need a soldering iron for this)
- carefully sand them with a sandpaper
- use hydrogen peroxide (use plastic gloves, that stuff is agressive)

if none of those 3 steps help..its gonna get very difficult.

be very careful with every of those 3 solutions, if there is a lot of corrosion the contacts will shure be weakened because of it. if you wiggle them too much they will break.

cheers

bleepytoys

mario101 · Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2008 11:33 am Post subject:

I just use a Q-tip to clean corrosion of my games...
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bleepytoys · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 1:40 am Post subject:

hi mario!

hmm if there is much corrosion that would't work, or do you have a trick to share??

cheers

mike

mario101 · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 2:28 pm Post subject:

Nope, nothing but some good ol' elbow grease.
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Rik · Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 7:37 pm Post subject:

Q-Tips and alcohol or Windex... That will do a good job on the blue/green crud that can build up on the terminals.

If the terminal have reached the point of actually rusting, you will probably want to use something like a small piece of sand paper, or scrape it off with a knife or screwdriver... It it's really bad, you also risk actually breaking off the terminals, but if it's in that condition, just inserting batteries is likely to do that also...

Rik