Clean battery corrosion before fitting new parts
All corrosion must be cleaned off and neutralised before any new part goes on. Damage is normally around the battery at the bottom left of the CPU board; badly damaged boards may need parts beyond that area, and lightly damaged ones may not need every replacement.
Battery leakage is caustic; wear gloves and eye protection when cleaning it off.
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Related tips
- Clean up battery corrosion on a System 80 CPU board
- Resistor values in the CPU battery corrosion area
- Parts typically ruined by battery leakage on a System 80 CPU board
- Where the battery-area parts sit on the System 80 CPU board
- Using a memory back-up capacitor instead of a battery
- Remove the original DataSentry battery from every System 80 CPU board
- Fit a remote AA battery pack to a System 80 CPU board
- Orientation and static care when rebuilding the battery area
Source: Gottlieb System 80 Battery Corrosion Repair Components Kit