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I hired a crew and a crane to move the board upstairs to my workbench.
I added some fresh solder to the three battery terminals to prime them, then used my Hakko desoldering gun to suck it all back out. The battery pretty well fell off the board under its own weight.
I cleaned the area with alcohol and got some microscope shots. The worst is on the top negative end, but the traces seem intact even if exposed. I'll try to trace them and test continuity.
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I hired a crew and a crane to move the board upstairs to my workbench.
I added some fresh solder to the three battery terminals to prime them, then used my Hakko desoldering gun to suck it all back out. The battery pretty well fell off the board under its own weight.
I cleaned the area with alcohol and got some microscope shots. The worst is on the top negative end, but the traces seem intact even if exposed. I'll try to trace them and test continuity.
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The positive end of the former battery mount looks overall better than the other. There is some blue crytalline material on the legs of the close by 75LS174N IC. I'm including a photo before I fairly easily cleaned most of that off both sides of the IC with a swab and alcohol.
If this is worse than I think, then I wonder if the IC is compromised. I could remove it, test it and reinstall or replace it in a socket. Not sure if I want to do that preemptively, though.
Last battery shots for now: closeups of the positive and negative ends of the battery post-removal.
The back side of the board looks altogether better than the worst of what I shared here from the front side. There is little or no indication of issues in any traces spreading from the battery through holes.
Would definitely appreciate opinions and insights from others that have more experience than I do dealing with possible battery damage.
I can try testing continuity on traces. I could apply some solder mask and hit it with UV to cure where the little bits of copper are exposed.
I'm most curious if I need to sand or clean anything that presents more concern than I might know to have.
Lastly, I can hook it all up and just see how it works with diagnostic tests.
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