Flashlight Battery Corrosion Fix?

wa8yxm wrote:
Daffination of a flashlight: Container for dead batteries.

There is one and only one solution

Store the batteries external to the flashlight...

Now: an easy way to do this: Next time you visit the grocery take a look at the powdered drink isle, Crystal Light and Store brands often come packaged in a plastic tube, A very nice size to hold a small flashlight and batteries, You can peal the label off and it is even nicer for this job (Plastic is translucent) Wylers comes in a round tube, depending on the flashlight this is good too, And the kids will love the drinks.. that is you do not. (That's my alternative to coffee, being a coffee holic).

Surely you jest..

A flashlight with no batteries would be rather useless in a power outage or if you have a need for portable light in a hurry..

Pretty much sort of like having a unloaded gun tucked under your pillow and the bullets are in the safe, downstairs, by the door the burglar has just jimmied open :S

In all my years of living I have as of yet never had any flashlight that had corroding connections due to batteries in them..

The only time I have ever had corrosion has been when someone had left totally dead batteries in the device for months..

Corrosion happens when batteries leak OR the connections are constantly exposed to high humidity or salt spray for long periods of time.

Personally if you are having to constantly clean the terminals then get yourself some No-Alox, it is a special grease designed to prevent oxidation of aluminum and copper electrical connections. A little dab on the connections and you will not have corrosion again.. This grease blocks moisture from getting to the connection and can even be helpful in the case of battery corrosion. I use it on my auto and camper batteries.. I rarely need to clean my vehicle battery connections.