CHECK or REMOVE your old BATTERIES

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Hmm, intersting as I was reading an old blog post about this a couple of days ago. IT was mainly interested in the MISB side of things though. ANyhoo, I managed to dig out my RID Supreme Primal and Instructions and took some photos.
Lucky I did, as there were signs of leakage.


Oh and it take 3 AAA batteries

Place him face down. The batteries are in the back pack. Release the jets.





With a small philips head screwdriver, there are two screw. The other is on the opposite side.



I found it a little fiddly to get the cover out from under the hhinge.


There they are.

Interesting mine had begun to leak. I think they should be able to be cleaned up though as it wasn't too bad. Odd as I had this cranking not much less than a couple of months ago...


The horrific results...










On the plus side, I managed to get a tooth brush in there and give the compartment a little clean up and he still works fine and dandy. My mum's camera had some batteries that leaked really badly. I thought it was toast, but I got in there with a bit of wet/dry paper and gave the contacts a light sanding, cleaned all the crud out and it came good. Nothing had actually leaked into the electrics at that time though, so they can be cleaned up depending on the amount of leakage.

[kup]

As Tets mentioned, the good news is that it's not difficult to fix the aftermath of a battery leak. The effect is usually superficial.

All you need to do is 'polish' the corroded metal until you remove the 'rust' with a bit of sand paper or a file until you reach reach the shiny surface. Your toy will work once again. I have done that with several toys including a few Omega Supremes and Sky Lynx.

Edit: Made a mistake on who wrote the post above.

[griffin]

Thanks for that Tets. I saw those two screws there, but didn't think that was the battery cover, as all other battery covers only had one screw.
Since it has the bigger batteries, I'll get to mine straight away. Like you, mine still makes the noise, but those bigger batteries leak faster than the button cells.

As for resurrecting the electronics by cleaning up the contacts - it's good to hear, but I fear I may not ever have the time to do that with all the ones that no longer work... especially if it is a gimmick that I'm not likely to ever need again.
I like showing off the gimmicks to others, but it isn't worth having batteries in them all the time to do that, because the way they have battery covers screwed down it is too time consuming to be able to just put them in when needed.
(Gen1 toys were great, with battery covers that could just unclip and easily re-attach quickly)

[kup]

Thanks for that Tets. I saw those two screws there, but didn't think that was the battery cover, as all other battery covers only had one screw.
Since it has the bigger batteries, I'll get to mine straight away. Like you, mine still makes the noise, but those bigger batteries leak faster than the button cells.

As for resurrecting the electronics by cleaning up the contacts - it's good to hear, but I fear I may not ever have the time to do that with all the ones that no longer work... especially if it is a gimmick that I'm not likely to ever need again.
I like showing off the gimmicks to others, but it isn't worth having batteries in them all the time to do that, because the way they have battery covers screwed down it is too time consuming to be able to just put them in when needed.
(Gen1 toys were great, with battery covers that could just unclip and easily re-attach quickly)

It's ok. As long as the corrosion is stopped, it will not progress any further so you could always feel reassured that technically the electronics aren't ruined. You can always grab one, clean up the contacts making them conductive again to revive the gimmicks.

[griffin]

I actually tried doing that with the BotCon Arcee voice-box thingy - a few years ago I took out the batteries, but it had already corroded the contacts. I scrubbed off as much of the corrosion as I could get at, but still didn't work. I wonder if an actual (chemical) metal polish might work, or would it probably be more damaging to the delicate components I wonder.

[kup]

I actually tried doing that with the BotCon Arcee voice-box thingy - a few years ago I took out the batteries, but it had already corroded the contacts. I scrubbed off as much of the corrosion as I could get at, but still didn't work. I wonder if an actual (chemical) metal polish might work, or would it probably be more damaging to the delicate components I wonder.

I am yet to find a toy with battery corrosion that is beyond fixing and I have restored several. Try again and just make sure that all contact points have clear exposed metal otherwise it could be something more affecting it.

[iceburn]

hahah time to take mine out too

[kurdt_the_goat]

I've got to get around to doing this myself. Personally i like the fact that buying Transformers means i've always got a supply of AA's in case our torch or wii remote goes dead