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Old 7th Mar 2014, 1:07 pm   #1
Ti Pwun
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Default The hidden danger of dead batteries...

Most here will know this and no doubt it has been covered before but this is part of what I found inside Barney's Sony ICF-SW1 radio:

http://i890.photobucket.com/albums/a...cid_damage.jpg

After cleaning off all the nasty battery acid, it has made a mes of it and all three of the traces here need to be repaired. Not a problem with a good iron but this is definitely a lesson for those who have things stuffed in a drawer with the batteries left inside. Take them out and store them in a zip-lok bag.

There are other areas of damage inside this radio so it will be a fun project to attempt a repair, for sure, and I'm doing so as a favour to a fellow forum member, but please take those batteries out folks! A perfectly good radio can easily be transformed into a pile of junk if you don't.
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