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Title: Cleaning up battery acid damage
Post by: msr on September 04, 2021, 11:42:55 AM

Hi all,

I'm working on cleaning up some acid-caused corrosion and rust on steel parts and am curious to know how others have approached this problem. Scrape, clean, and paint? POR-15?

Thanks,
Matt

Title: Re: Cleaning up battery acid damage
Post by: m in sc on September 04, 2021, 12:15:23 PM

baking soda and water to neutralize. then scrape, clean (lacquer thinner or denatured alcohol), repaint.

Title: Re: Cleaning up battery acid damage
Post by: pidjones on September 04, 2021, 05:00:26 PM

Let me add that you should replace the battery with and AGM, Gel, or other non-venting battery. I used an AGM scooter battery in my RD400c.

Title: Re: Cleaning up battery acid damage
Post by: msr on September 04, 2021, 10:26:37 PM

Thanks for the suggestions. Definitely going with a non-venting battery on the rebuild.

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