On Tue, 13 Jan 2015 17:10:23 -0500, "Phil Kangas"
wrote:


"whit3rd"
wrote in message
On Tuesday, January 13, 2015 at 1:21:19 PM
UTC-8, Phil Kangas wrote:
I've been handed a nice mag-lite with LED
bulb and the batteries leaked and are now
stuck in place.

Three possible solutions:
(1) find enough label on the batteries to claim
flashlight replacement
from the battery manufacturer
(2) make a suitable (wood) set of vice jaws to
hold the tube,
and drill out the batteries (or bore, if you
have a lathe)
(3) use the LED parts to upgrade an unused
filament-lamp
variant

The electrolyte in many modern batteries is
alkaline, and it attacks
aluminum alloys (which is what the flashlight is
made of). There
might be damage other than 'stuck batteries'.

Yes, these must be alkaline batteries because
there is evidence
of corrosion. How bad is it inside? I'm gonna find
out one way or
another. Perhaps there is a way to rotate the
battery to break it
loose. Hopefully the PFM penetrating oil will do
its thing...


The inside of the barrel is scarred, but it will still be usable once
the batteries are removed.

Gunner

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miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied,
demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless.
Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats."
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