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Acid Spill
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:35 pm
by DarkTari
Today lil Dark pulled out his Precious RX-7 and saw a blue substance on the foam in his case. I cracked that baby open to find this.....
Battery Acid leakage! Cleaned it up, popped in an old Tomy Batt, charged a couple of times and he's back on Da Road! Only charged him the minimal mechanics rate minus relative discount.
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 5:42 pm
by Ahh5hit
That was very kind of you Darktari. Did you figure out was caused it?
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 6:13 pm
by extrememicros
DT
Nice to see you put the Scrubbing Bubbles to work on it and got her back to normal.
Secondly, I guess I have never seen a Precious chassis, damn, that thing is white....! That is cool as hell mang. I have never seen a chassis molded in white before....gotta get one of those...
Holla
Slick Rick
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:32 pm
by SkyLiNEz 4-eva!
damn, thats the first time i saw that. also, i think a chassis in red would be bad ass, or maybe silver chrome. but i have a Q: if acid leaked out of the battery, wouldnt that melt the metal electrodes? unless it is a real weak acid, then i guess you can drink Clorox.
sometimes i wanna do this
and sometimes i wanna do this
but most of the time i wanna do this
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 6:42 pm
by MaxximumRC
I bet you could dye that chasis with RIT dye.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:00 pm
by SkyLiNEz 4-eva!
WTF is RIT dye, where can i get some, and do i have to clear out everything in the chassis before i do it?
that sounds like a lot of work, ill just buy one.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:02 pm
by MaxximumRC
You get rit dye at wall world, and yes you will have to take everything outa the chasis.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:46 pm
by SuperFly
I kinda think that leakage happens when you put a car away with a charge in it. I could be totally wrong, but that's my theory. So I always run them dry before putting them away.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 7:57 pm
by crazydave
I think Superfly is right.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:48 pm
by MaxximumRC
It ussually happens whith old, or cheap batteries that weaken.
Posted: Mon Aug 04, 2003 8:59 pm
by DarkTari
I would say cheeap battery cause the car isn't that old and has low milage. He has other cars that are older with less milage. Anyways an emery board and canned air cleaned 'er right up! Runs better than new....
Re: Acid Spill
Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 7:24 am
by noxorc
wow,
I know it can happen...just never seen it.
DarkTari wrote:Only charged him the minimal mechanics rate minus relative discount.
You Da man... so kind to the sprout.
-nox
(remember, when you push the time envelope, he'll be chargin you!)