Last year I picked up my grail game, Monster Bash from a local collector. When I got to his place we removed the BG and there was a little fuzz on the batteries. No major leakage, just some light fuzz, we had caught it just in time. I got the game home, cleaned up the battery holder and didn't think a whole lot more about it.

Last week was the one week anniversary so down to the basement I went. When I removed the BG I was horrified by what I found. My theory is there was still some alkaline residue left on the battery holder and it slowly ate away at the battery. *sigh* Don't mess around with $3 battery packs, if there was ever any kind of leakage toss that baby right out and get a new one or install some NVRAM

So now to send this guy off to have some sockets swapped out a NVRAM installed.

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Now to debate if I should send it off to clean it up, swap out some sockets, etc or to just buy a Rottendog. Normally I would have caught something like this sooner, but it's been a hectic year and not a lot of time tinkering on the games.

Thanks guys, I have dropped Chris a line.

As per the Radio Shack batteries, they were on a shelf for two years and purchased when my local place went out of business. They were installed in the machine for one year. Last I checked most batteries have a five year shelf life. The expiration on these is 2026. So it seemed like an ok bet to use for the one year period. The downfall was the alkaline residue in the the battery holder that I missed when neutralizing.