Perkins 4-107 starter motor burnt out ...

[Refueler]

Never seen it before ..... its one of those maintenance free batterys ... 95Ah .. job.

Many batterys like that size - if you look where the handles are - you can just see a feint line where a plate clips in ... usually about 1" square. Its designed to 'pop' out if the battery suffers pressure. Trouble is this 'popped' and spewed the battery acid !!

 

[VicS]

Apart from physical damage caused by impact, the only time that I have seen anything like that is with battery that has a vent to atmosphere and that vent has been blocked. Eventually the battery casing will split.

Flushing with water should be fine but you could always flush with a dilute alkali solution just to be on the safe side. Washing soda/sodium carbonate solution would be an obvious choice.

Richard

+1 Definitely neutralise the acid with sodium carbonate/ washing soda solution and then rinse that out.