DEAR HELOISE: Several years ago, you printed a recipe that removed battery corrosion. Could you reprint that? — Holly, Hagerstown, Md. Holly, I'm happy to print this money-saving hint! For flashlight ...

So my Certain Special Someoneâ„¢ has an old flashlight, and the batteries in it have partially corroded. There's no obvious sign of innards-leaking-out, no acid anywhere, etc. The batteries have been ...

Dear Heloise: I am a single woman in my 20s, and I travel in my car quite a lot for work. An essential tool in my vehicle is a large metal FLASHLIGHT that I carry in my glove box. At the risk of ...

I have had enough. Over the course of two or three decades, I've had alkaline batteries corrode, thereby ruining the electronic equipment that contained them. Some of those electronics were salvaged ...