Common househoud vinegar does wonders for this kind of battery leak problem...
2015-11-19 20:11 GMT-02:00 Glen Slick <[email protected]>: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 1:35 PM, william degnan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It was a pain to take the M7626 apart, I did think about replacing but > > decided I don't mind entering in the date whenever I boot up the system > vs. > > worrying about the future. > > > > Removing 6 screws and a lock nut on the M7626 KA660 H3602 console > panel to remove the PCB so you can remove the battery now is a lot > easier and better than doing it later after the battery has started > leaking and corroding things and then trying to repair the damage. > > I was just looking at a system with an M7626 KA660 a couple of days > ago and the network connectivity through the H3602 AUI Ethernet port > was very flaky. The H3602 had some signs of leaking battery corrosion > that I had previously tried to clean. I swapped that H3602 panel with > another one that also had some signs of leaking battery corrosion and > that one seemed to work OK, at least for now. Trying to correct > whatever is damaged on the bad H3602 panel will be a pain. It's not > worth the risk of leaving those NiCad battery packs in any old DEC > gear. It's not that much of a pain to set the date and time every time > I actually get around to powering on the systems. > > The early VAX 3100 desktops have those same evil NiCad battery packs. >
