What's that powdery, crystallized stuff inside your battery case? Classic battery corrosion. While it can be a frustrating and potentially dangerous matter to resolve, it isn't usually hard to clean ...

WD-40 may seem like a miracle oil, but you have to choose the right variant when cleaning your car's battery. There are ...

At least one out of every three vehicles has corrosion around the battery terminals. Many drivers never give it any thought, since they do not think it is important enough to include in their regular ...

In a few weeks, all those decorations you spent the entire weekend after Thanksgiving putting up will have to be taken down, "neatly" packed into boxes and shoved into the bottom of a closet, not to ...

Double A batteries are great. Until you leave a camera in a drawer for awhile and the batteries leak and make a mess. I was traveling and bought off-brand batteries at a gas station. The corrosion ...

As you may know, we’re rather big fans of building things here at Hackaday. But we’re also quite partial to repairing things which might otherwise end up in a landfill. Especially when those things ...

If you notice your vehicle isn't starting as it should, it's important to check your battery and clean the terminals to ...

Several years ago, you printed a recipe that removed battery corrosion. Could you reprint that? Holly, I'm happy to print this money-saving hint! For flashlight and other small electronic devices, ...

Q: My 2020 Toyota Sienna has a significant amount of corrosion on the positive battery post and absolutely nothing on the negative post. What causes this and is it problematic? Can it be stopped? — ...