>  > With rechargable AA alkaline batteries, is it also time to throw them out,
>  > or can you clean them up and recharge them?  I have never had that happen
>  > before until recently so I was not sure.

> you mean corrode or actually leaking out material like batteries sometimes do?
> if you are losing the material inside, then toss them.  if they rust, you can
> t a scotchbrite and buff the rust off.

I call it corrode.  It is on the terminal ends and looks like the stuff
that forms on car battery terminals.

> also there's different types of batteries.  lithium is dangerous shit. don't r
> k anything with lithium batteries. i had a battery that i suspected was lower
> pacity and had a fake label over it.  i used an xacto blade to get the label o
>  to see the real one under. I knicked that fucker somehow and it ignited. I ha
> to put it in a bucket with dirt to cut off the oxygen.

I checked.  I said "alkaline" but they are actually NiMH batteries.

Mike


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