Repairing battery contact plates

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Repairing battery contact plates

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Hi all, I've a perfectly good battery but one of the contacts is bent and a bit split from over tightening. Anybody know if they can be repaired? I was hoping they would be made from lead and therefore fixable with a lighter but that doesnt seem to be the case. I think this is likely the source of my electrical gremlin as I have it stuck on with a vice-grip atm and it seems to have fixed it. 3 weeks since last I rode :(. And need to get other things sorted in time for the track day...
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Can you put up a pic - may be a help. ;)
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Beware of the Hydrogen gas in the battery :shock:
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go to a auto battery place or auto electric and they can repair it ,,,,have done this many times with auto batteries
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