#1234 – Hydride
Posted on March 4, 2011 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comics
I had lots of little toys and gizmos as a kid that used batteries. Not everything that played with on a daily basis. Sometimes they would get lost for months in the plastic briar patch of my toy box. It was always a disappointment to try and turn one of them on and realize the batteries were dead. But it was a super bummer to open it up and discover the batteries had leaked and corroded the insides.
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Gods… Corroded battteries. I can’t count the number of toys that died to that failure.
Thankfully I’ve never had a corroded battery problem, but then again, my toy collection wasn’t very extensive, and I tended to play with my toys fairly regularly…
Bleeding Batteries… They’re a scourge. But, remembering back to then… The only thing I had with batteries where an RC car, a GameBoy and a couple of Lego powerboxes for motors, sound- and light FX. You know, those whining klaxons for police cars and such.
Damn, my childhood was shallow.
Most of my battery-powered toys died because I was too busy being outside and playing with the world. Horses, dogs, domestic fowl, sheep, mountains, trees, streams and gullies… By the time I remembered that a toy existed, it already had crusty blue-green crap gunking up the battery compartment.
(cranky old man voice) Jeez, when I was a kid batteries lasted an hour, maybe two. You had something cool if it only need C bats instead of D. Most our our toys had either sharp edges, was flammable, toxic or any combination of the above. They were GREAT! One of my brothers had a toy making kit which had metal forms, plastic sheets and a oven that went to about 300 degrees. You’d clamp the plastic sheets into the forms and bake em. When the fumes filled the house you knew it was done. But for some reason I can’t remember any toy that was actually made with this… what were we talking about again?
the blasted battery is worthless unless it ruins an annoying toy that wouldn’t shut up for months it was a glorious day when i wouldn’t hear select a country as my wake up call anymore
Hey, it’s the robot from maximumble. Cool.
Leaking batteries, even being pretty common here, weren’t the biggest problem I’ve had as kid. Most of my cherished toys had no batteries.
Now, rubber melting plastic, THAT was f***ed up. Why no one taught me that happened?!
Also, you would be surprised by the amount of radioactivity regular stuff have.
Rarely do I run into corroded batteriesbattery compartments. I am a doll collector.
As soon as I encounter the green crusty, I squirt some vinegar on it, scrub with a toothbrush, rinse with clear water, then distilled, then scavenge with alcohol (you can get 99% isopropyl ‘IPA99’ at some grocery stores now). Set in a sunny windowsill to dry.
Follow with a wipe on the remaining metal with plain (or even baby-powder-scented) petroleum jelly to protect it.
The hardest part is getting the gadget apart to avoid all that getting in other parts where you DON’T want it. Sometimes, gravity is your friend. If you caught it early, good luck!
^pbarnrob
Don’t touch the leaking battery stuff. It is really, really bad if you do, because the insides of batteries are essentially all the pain, suffering and regret of the wold they could pack into those things. Actually, it’s just some very corrosive acid, which is the same.
Again, don’t touch it. If the battery stuff has leaked out, it is because it has burned its way out. It has burned out if its terrible metal cage to find You. Only you. And then after it has done unfortunate things to your body, it will laugh and go do something else that is awful.
Have I gotten the point across?
In the name of Chemistry don’t touch that stuff. It’s dangerous.
I’m not sure if anyone has noticed yet, but that robot looks like the one that briefly appeared in Maximumble.
Of course, I could be wrong.