John,
In addition to Chuck's note regarding white vinegar (not malt BTW) as the
solution to your problem can I suggest you pry the contacts out of the
casing and place them in a bowl to soak. You should find the outer two
nearest the foot side of the chamber are the main contacts into the circuit
(they have wires on the side you can't see). These two will not come out but
the others are just links to connect the battery string together. I have
done this on many a T32 and T20, all it takes is a gentle bit of probing
with a jeweler flat blade screwdriver to lift them out of the slots. With
them out you will be able to get them totally clean and get the crud that
was behind them too. As a final step, and depending on how much the alkaline
ate the plating on the terminals you may want to polish them with a bit of
brasso or another metal polish.
Good luck with this one!
Dan S
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From: JOHN DUGGAN
Subject: [OM] Battery gunk
Hi all,
I am in the process of trying to "sort out" my camera equipment to
keep
items in kits depending on their use. picked up a T32 flash. It seemed
heavy.
Opened it up to find that the batteries had turned to mush. Bugger , bugger,
Damn.......I ALWAYS remove batteries after use. :-(> but not this time.
I
have spent the last 11/2 hrs scraping away with dental probes trying to
clean up
the terminals. very therapeutic at 3.15 am! Can anyone suggest a
neutralising
agent that I could brush around the terminals to zap any remaining battery
crud
that I might have missed? I will give it another go in the morning..Toooo
tired
now............must sleep.
Regards
John Duggan,
Wales, UK
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