How to clean up mercury cells?

[Paul Verizzo]

Gee I am 76 too. What are the odds that we were born the same year?

Some things are beyond all probability.

 

[Paul Verizzo]

This is what happened on my Leicaflex. The original mercury battery had leaked and corroded inside the battery compartment, locking the retainer to the body. I finally had to chisel a slot into the battery retainer and use a big screwdriver on it.

Once inside, the compartment was in surprisingly good shape. Even the bakelite (or plastic) parts looked good after a clean up. But the second I touched the battery prong, it broke off and dropped into the body somewhere. The battery juice had eaten it in half at the bend.

It's probably still in there. I'm handy w/ tools, but know better than to open up a Leicaflex, a camera so complicated that it almost led Leica into bankruptcy. I ended up selling it as a meterless camera, and it worked just as well that way. It also still weighed as much, so it's not missed.

How sad!

 

[ic-racer]

The problem with elemental liquid mercury is that it is OK to eat it and it won't absorb through your hands or skin, but you can't breath it's vapor. So hold your breath.

 

[Sirius Glass]

The problem with elemental liquid mercury is that it is OK to eat it and it won't absorb through your hands or skin, but you can't breath it's vapor. So hold your breath.

So hold ones nose when one swallows liquid mercury?

 

[Paul Verizzo]

The problem with elemental liquid mercury is that it is OK to eat it and it won't absorb through your hands or skin, but you can't breath it's vapor. So hold your breath.

So how is it we ingest mercury via food?

I don't know if the hatter's who used mercury ("mad as a hatter,") breathed vapors or through absorption.

 

[guangong]

Gee I am 76 too. What are the odds that we were born the same year?

Your both young guys! Everything is relative.

 

[BAC1967]

So how is it we ingest mercury via food?

I don't know if the hatter's who used mercury ("mad as a hatter,") breathed vapors or through absorption.

Google “Mercury Bioavailability”, there are different forms of mercury, some more bioavailable than others.