Newbie needs help!! 3000 with acid damage..

[KennyR]

There is NO acid in a clock battery! Do NOT use vinegar or baking soda on your motherboard!

[KennyR]

You need to get all of the battery fluid off your components. It's soluble in polar solvents like water, but try not to use water (the water in the vinegar took it off before, not the acetic acid itself). Pure alcohol, or even better, isopropyl alcohol or circuit cleaning fluids, will take it off best. If you don't have any of this you can use a little clean water on a cotton bud. Just dry it as soon as possible.

[KennyR]

@Dandude

===ALL=== batteries carry acid except memory capacitors. Memory capacitors are THE next best thing to replacing batteries.

No they don't. Only lead-acid batteries such as car batteries have acid inside. In fact, many batteries are alkaline, not acid. Ni-Cd batteries like those used in most older clock "coin" batteries actually have sodium hydroxide as an electrolyte, a powerful alkali.

[KennyR]

Dandude wrote:

OK, acid or not, they still contain harmful effects that can destroy the board, right?

Sure. They do to your circuit boards what they should be doing inside the battery - reacting. Most real acids won't attack copper or lead-solder anyway. ;-)