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suprz
Explorer
May 27, 2019

Battery corrosion? 's

I was checking the electrolyte on my house battery (interstate srm24)
And notice that the insulation on the wires have pulled back from the terminals and there is a lot of the green corrosion showing on the exposed bare wire. I know this leads to increased resistance etc... Bad, bad, bad.... How should I go about removing this corrosion without having to replace the wires?
I was thinking of maybe taking a razor blade and cutting back the insulation and getting to clean wire, clean the corrosion as best I can and re-insulating with shrink wrap? I don't have enough cable to cut and put on new ends

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  • Gjac's avatar
    Gjac
    Explorer III
    What I have done is to cut of the corroded end strip to clean wire, slide shrink tape over wire then crimp and solder new terminal on, finally shrink the tape over the wire and terminal. I don't have crimping tools so I just used a modified vise grip to crimp and hold the terminal so solder can run in between the strands of copper.

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