VANAGON archives -- January 2006, week 4 (#26)

Date:         Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:04:36 -0800
Reply-To:     Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         Malcolm Stebbins <mwstebbins@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: White powder in battery box bottom
Comments: To: Gerald Masar <azsun99@earthlink.net>
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--- Gerald Masar <azsun99@earthlink.net> wrote:
> Is the battery cracked, or is there any evidence it did leak?
> If the powder is all white, maybe it is baking soda, put in to neutralize a previous spill.

No sign of a cracked battery.  The "powder" looks more like fire place ash, but as it laid on the
bottom of the battery box, it was absolutely flat, as if it was the sediment from a
once-upon-a-time liquid.  M

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