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Strange battery leak - Cristian Arezzini - 06-03-2013 A few days ago I received another old LED calculator. As usual, the first thing I did was to look at the battery pack... It had a few green crystals and a little clear liquid. Today I disassembled the calculator... And inside, there was quite a lot of the clear liquid. It has no smell whatsoever, and is totally clear - it doesn't stain the paper I used to pick it up. It was in many places, also far from the battery - especially on the card reader and on the plastic back shell.
Now, I have disassembled and dried everything from that liquid. Should I just reassemble everything with a new battery, or is it better to give it a bath anyway to prevent corrosion in the future, if that liquid is indeed corrosive?
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