what is corrosion and how do i stop it?

[ari666]

i have a car radio hooked up to my work bench which is what i use to listen to the radio during the day.

the setup is;
JVC something head unit
3 old car batterys, too dead to power a car, but ok for radio
2 japanese branded single channel amps
2 10 inch woofers in enclosure
2 6 inch splits in a wooden box
2 weird japanese speakers which are like a split system in their own boxes.

and and its being powered by my battery charger constantly. after a while corosion builds up on the wires joining all three up and eventually eats through them, leaving me with 1 battery which goes flat pretty quickly.

what i wanna know is how do i stop it eating through my wire? i have tried 8 guage, jumper cables, and welding wire. it has ruined all of them.

heres a pic


thanks

[Nackerz]

i find if you just use one battery with the battery charger hooked up to it...it should run it fine

[ari666]

yeah, i did have 1 but the problem is there is incredibly loud feedback from the charger if i run only one battery, i tried using 2 and the hum faded, 3 was almost in audible.

even with one battery, the corrosion started chewing through the battery charger clip-thingie

[Nackerz]

hmmm i dont know then mate

[D-Man]

make sure that you have cleaned the top of the battery, connecting clamps or wires completely. Use a good lint free, clean towel or rag to make sure there's no battery acid left on the top or terminals. Once you've gotten those surfaces clean, you will want to reconnect the battery connectors and coat them with grease or petroleum jelly. That helps stop the corrosion from forming by not allowing any acid to touch the terminals.

[bezz]

Boiling water works well getting the corrosion off the terminals (obviously keep away from the charger). As the guy above said, automotive grease on the terminals will help a lot as well.

[ari666]

normal axle grease works? i had heard a rumor that vaseline worked, but have you ever gone into a shop to buy a jar?...
"its for my battery terminals, honest"

"....sure it is"

i got a big jar of grease, so i will give that a go.

[D-Man]

lol at the vaso comment. yeah i would personally try grease anyway... since it's used for an automotive purpose...

[acarmody]

You reakon you get weird looks for vasoline. I wanted to buy a syringe to get the brake fluid out of the reservoir to change it over, thought it would be earier than bleeding the brakes. I thought the only place nearby that will have it was the big chemist down the road, mind you this is Deception Bay,and I'm wearing, old shirt and shorts and thongs, dirty as because I'm working on car. I ask the young girl at the front counter, and she says they have heaps at the counter where you get you prescriptions. I walk to said counter and asked the old lady, she looks me up and down then tells me they don't stock them. . BITCH! I ain't doing drugs.

[ari666]

umm, get a 2ltr coke bottle, drill two holes in the top, stick a vacuum hose in either hole, a long hose all the way to the bottom and a shorter hose just intot he top, silicon it up, let it dry for a day, once dry stick the long end in your brake resevior and the other in your mouth and suck.

the vacuum does the rest. if you make your hoses long enough the fluid wont even get into the bottle, but its good to have it cos you dont really wanna ingest brake fluid.