Cleaning up battery acid damage

[msr]

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

[m in sc]

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

[pidjones]

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.

[msr]

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