Corrosion on Battery Terminals
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One other "home-remedy" to try, and I thought this was crazy at first too, but if you use the baking soda and water to get them all cleaned up, take a penny and use a spot of grease to stick it on the top of the battery. For some reason the penny will take the corrosion and your posts will remain clean.
Read that on some website a while back and tried it. Seems to be working so far.
Read that on some website a while back and tried it. Seems to be working so far.
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anti-seize compound
After you get it cleaned up with the backing soda and water trick, just put anti-seize compound on it. The aluminum or the copper both work great. They both have an oxidizing inhibitor and they stick and stay on for years, even survive some pressure washing. It's also a lot easier to paint on than grease, and if you don't get both the post and clamp completely covered they can start to corrode again (I found I could not get good coverage with grease).
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The special compounded grease is somekind of REALLY sticky, tenacious grease that I believe does as well as any other grease on battery terminals.
BTW, the Penetrox grey fillers WILL corrode to a white color when excessive battery acid gets into the act of reacting with it. It still was working, keeping the clamp-to-post joint clean and corrosion-free, but the surface of the Penetrox layer was taking a beating from the Sulphuric acid...
At work, I use cans of tan colored, No-Ox-id grease on the terminals and intercell straps on the big stationary UPS battery banks. That stuff has the consistancy of somewhere between Vaseline and Paraffin Wax(at room temps).
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