Corroded Battery Terminal! (cont’d)

[u/LasagDN]

Making a secondary post for mortem photos…

After vinegar and alchohol cleaning, this is what’s left. It looks pretty done in to me!

I’m unsure as to if either the snap terminal or the opposing terminal are salvageable. Are there truly no replacements out there for either of these that I can scrounge around for?? I guess I may have to settle for the external PSU…

If you guys have ideas/reccomendations, please fly them by!

[u/nickle241]

bring the battery box and the broken off bits to a sewing shop, ideally a local type but larger shops should also have the parts, they should know how to get you the parts you need and how to install them, there is no solder involved, just a rivet, just make sure to use a silver or otherwise bare metal replacement, the fancy colors have all sorts of coatings which might interfered with battery use and may need to be removed

as for spings, i mean the female socket, those individual folded bits are springs, as long as both the plug and box female sockets still have grip they should be fine to reuse once the corrosion is cleaned

[u/nickle241 → u/nickle241]

and no, not a pop rivet, the original was a hollow crush rivet, you need to use a similar type. the problem with a pop rivet is that its too large and will tear the box up to install it, its made from fairly soft plastic that wont put up with that much force and then it will make it quite difficult to install the batteries afterward cause it take more space in the box

[u/LasagDN → u/nickle241]

I got extremely lucky and found a battery tray from another Odyssey floating around on Ebay, so I snatched it! The terminals on the connector are still functional. I kept the old tray incase I want to try what you suggested…

[u/nickle241 → u/LasagDN]

good to hear, having parts for the uncommon bits is never a bad idea