No, I've never been able to reverse this. The batteries swell. I've tried everything but drilling them out. Soaked in penetrating oil for months on end.
Originally Posted by 16penny
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If the batteries are stuck in it drill a small hole in the end to put a self tapper in. Once you get the batteries out fill with hot water and baking soda, let it set overnight to neutralize the acid.
Dyr and try to get a piece of steel wool down inside to polish the battery contact.
Keep in mind this may ruin the switch if it's not in the tailcap but at this point you don't have much to lose.
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i have a mini mag right here that's locked up tight with good batteries that spewed. i've tried before to get a battery company to warranty a corroded flashlight with no luck. there's another in the next room that's in an envelope ready to take to the post office, but i'm in a quandary as to whether to risk the $7.00 or so on postage when the single AAA maglight is like $9.00 new to replace on my own or let them replace it or maybe they won't and i'll be out the $7.00 even though the light itself is bad and the battery did not spew or fail. fwiw, i do have maybe 10 or so of the free harbor freight lights here and at the outpost that when they quit they just get tossed and replaced with another free one.
it's sad that when i was young all we had was the chrome plated d cell light and i don't ever remember one getting messed up because of batteries. you did have to shake the hooey out 'em sometimes and buy a new bulb every 4 or 5 years
SRM - I got the following from https://maglite.com/support/faq - " If my flashlight is damaged by a battery leak, what should I do? The battery manufacture covers the leakage...
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SRM - I got the following from https://maglite.com/support/faq - " If my flashlight is damaged by a battery leak, what should I do? The battery manufacture covers the leakage...
Wife's 3 x AA LED Maglite went to crap when we were doing some subzero camping. Battery leak toasted the bulb assembly. Maglite does not even warehouse replacement bulbs. Really pissed me off.
... it's sad that when i was young all we had was the chrome plated d cell light and i don't ever remember one getting messed up because of batteries. you did have to shake the hooey out 'em sometimes and buy a new bulb every 4 or 5 years
Back when I was very young and stupid (I'm old now), I was headed down the basement steps when a flashlight on the overshoe shelf caught my eye. Not wishing to cause an investigation that would result in sanctions due to behaving in an unkid-like manner, I unscrewed the flashlight, intending to leave it in pieces after disassembly. I was struck by the odd, brown ooze coming from the top-most D-cell. With the inventive curiosity of youth, I followed my instinct to do the most logical action possible. (I licked the battery.) This resulted in an instant sensation inside my mouth that was, in a word, unpleasant. I rushed up the steps into the kitchen, where Mom was doing dishes. She was apparently having a bad day as she seemed a bit irked by my hipping her aside, sticking my mouth under the faucet, filling said mouth with water, and spitting it into her dish water. My declining to respond to her unreasonable request as to just what in hell was going on did not seem to improve her mood, so I took my still-burning mouth to the living room. Curling up in a chair, I could see the kitchen clock. Noting the time, I, employing the insight of the young, came to the conclusion that if this was going to kill me, it would do so in either 10 minutes or 24 hours. After an agonizing 11 minutes (had to be sure), I found myself still among the living and breathed a great sigh of relief, only to be drawn up short by the realization that I had only passed the first hurdle in my bid for survival. Little sleep was achieved that night, and my performance at school the next day was not up to my usual robust standard. Supper was largely ignored on my part and I retired to my chair of potential doom to await 6:45 and the passage of the magic 24 hours. This harrowing experience did not dim my enthusiasm for stupidity and shortly thereafter I manage do trip with a plastic pea-shooter in my mouth while running through the house, fall on said pea-shooter, and drive it into the back of my throat. (But that is another story.)
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