Posted by PJH on December 17, 2013 at 19:20:11 from (50.40.252.80):
In Reply to: Battery explosion posted by notjustair on December 17, 2013 at 15:35:32:
When I was a young man, I worked a second job in a gas station. Boss was installing a new battery in a customer's car, and I asked him a question. He turned his head toward me to answer, and shorted the posts with his wrench. It blew up and hit him in the side of the face, but he escaped any eye damage or other permanent injuries. That's the only battery I've ever seen blow up.
We were trying to start an AC dozer when I was young. It wouldn't make a sound, and the boss thought the battery was stone dead. He ran in the shop and came out with a length of brazing rod, bent it in a horseshoe shape, and jammed the ends of that thing down on each battery post. It kinda welded itself to the posts, and he tried for a second or so to get it loose, but it turned cherry red and burned in two right in the middle of the arch. Burned his hands, but no explosion. If that big old battery had blown up, they'da seen the flash in the next county. There wasn't anything wrong with that battery, but I can't remember now why it wouldn't roll the engine over.
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