New Amiga 4000! - But what about the battery?

[LordSpunky]

Today I picked up my new Amiga 4000, with Cyberstorm MK2 68040, Picasso IV & IDE Hard Drive & CD-ROM Drive. It is boxed with Workbench 3.0 and came with a Citizen monitor. I know there is a battery leakage issues with these big Amiga's, my A1500 suffered with it. It all works, and the owner didn't take it apart to check. I have just done that and checked and found the following picture......do I remove this ASAP? There will be more questions soon! EG what kinda RAM can I stick in and upto what? blah blah.....

Thanks

Tris

[LordSpunky]

When I removed the battery from my A1500 it broke the pins, is this likely to happen on this board? And please can you tell me what solution that is? I assume this goes also for my riddled A1500 board......thanks

[LordSpunky]

Eep! Scared! I gotta take the motherboard outta the case for this right?

[LordSpunky]

Sooo......lots of options, doesn't matter if I leave battery legs in or not, but mostly get that battery out and clean up the board? I have some CPU cleaner somewhere......not sure what is it in yet, still that the kind of thing I need? I like the idea of mounting the battery away from the mobo, and I have seen somewhere someone replacing the battery for a CR2032, is that a good idea and where did I see it ?
Cheers guys lots of ideas, I just need to put this into practice really. I'm not bad with a soldering iron but never working on a circuit board

[LordSpunky]

Ah.....okay now that makes some sense.....very good ramble!
So supermarket lemon juice, a toothbrush and IPA as in this?.......

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IPA-ISOPROPYL-ALCOHOL,-ISOPROPANOL--500ml-min-99%25-pure_W0QQitemZ320434307193QQcmdZViewItem?rvr_id=217580151280&rvr_id=217580151280&cguid=c01c906b11e0a0aad58201c2ffb8847e

I am going to 'snip' the battery off the legs in a minute, and I'll get some bits together to clean up soon.

[LordSpunky]

I have removed the battery as best as I can without removing the legs. I ended up removing the motherboard from the case, seems how I have to clean the board I thought it was for the best. I'm going to brush the dust off and wait for my delivery of IPA. If I can find the money I wanted to upgrade the ROMs while it was out.....not sure that I will be able too though.

[LordSpunky]

Ok.....are we ready for cleaning this battery leak?
I have one lemon, and some IPA, and a tooth brush!

I assume this - I squeeze the lemon, and use the tooth brush to work that juice in! Then I take the tooth brush and dip it in some IPA and again rub and work into the motherboard......and leave to dry for some time! ?

Have I got it, or am I stupidly missing something?

[LordSpunky]

cut the fucker off, then clean the shit... and your good, its that easy.

Cheers that was the answer I was looking for - the fucker is cut......cleaning will now commence tomorrow evening!

[LordSpunky]

Thanks for all your help, it is now clean and put back together again

[LordSpunky]

hmmmm need to get it online.........