Gyrobob
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Doug B said, "One potential problem is mentioned in the Clymer manual(p. 34) Always remove the battery from the bike's frame before connecting the battery charger. Never recharge a battery in the bike's frame; the corrosive mist that is emitted during the charging process will corrode all surrounding surfaces. I don't know if anyone has seen this - just asking "
This is true. Like Charon said, this mist will be coming out of the battery vent tube, assuming there is one installed. Some folks don't bother with installing the battery vent tube when putting in a new battery. Even if the tube is there, sometimes it might be misrouted.
So,.... if you charge the battery while it is installed in the bike, make sure the battery vent tube exhausts somewhere down below the bike where it won't do any damage. With some batteries and some chargers, you can have situations where there will be lots of very corrosive mist/droplets that will come gurgling out of that tube.
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