e-cigs might not damge your health, but watch out for pipe batteries

[Silk]

OK I should've know better, but I was in a hurry and just grabbed a pile of stuff and rammed it in my pockets as I left.

Mini pipe was in my jacket pocket, but I had also grabbed a spare charged battery and stuck in my jeans too, and without thinking this was in the same pocket as some loose change and my lighter (yeah I still carry it, but I've had that one for years, its kind of like a security blanket), which happens to be metal.

Some hours later I'm standing in a shop and suddenly feel a rather hot sensation in my front right pocket and think
'Thats a bit warm?'

I reach in and pull out my lighter thinking I've inadvertadly started it. But its still cool?

However the heat in my pocket is now much higher and starts almost burning. I stick my hand in my pocket and OUCH! something burns me?

I dip in again and pull out one VERY HOT battery. It's so hot I almost drop the thing and have to quickly wrap it in some spare tissue I have in another pocket (comes from having a dog, I generally have some poo bags, dog biscuits and tissue in every jacket I own)

The battery is so hot I can't hold it with bare fingers and the heat shrink wrap on it has reduced to almost nothing, and I have to put it on a shelf in the shop to cool down.

All I can think of is the coins/lighter have managed to connetct both poles and it didn't like it.

Result? 1 Naffed battery, 1 nearly burnt right ball

Lesson learnt - don't do it again!
Batteries do not belong in the same enclosure as other metal objects

[surbitonPete]

Lmao.......good story silk.

[DrTuba]

*scraps the idea for the all copper battery carrying case*

[aspen]

Geez you sound so calm through that fiasco. If something was hot in my pants I would have been jumping around like a chicken with it's head cut off! anyways thanks for sharing got a good chuckle out of that one.

[jburns]

OK I should've know better, but I was in a hurry and just grabbed a pile of stuff and rammed it in my pockets as I left.

Mini pipe was in my jacket pocket, but I had also grabbed a spare charged battery and stuck in my jeans too, and without thinking this was in the same pocket as some loose change and my lighter (yeah I still carry it, but I've had that one for years, its kind of like a security blanket), which happens to be metal.

Some hours later I'm standing in a shop and suddenly feel a rather hot sensation in my front right pocket and think
'Thats a bit warm?'

I reach in and pull out my lighter thinking I've inadvertadly started it. But its still cool?

However the heat in my pocket is now much higher and starts almost burning. I stick my hand in my pocket and OUCH! something burns me?

I dip in again and pull out one VERY HOT battery. It's so hot I almost drop the thing and have to quickly wrap it in some spare tissue I have in another pocket (comes from having a dog, I generally have some poo bags, dog biscuits and tissue in every jacket I own)

The battery is so hot I can't hold it with bare fingers and the heat shrink wrap on it has reduced to almost nothing, and I have to put it on a shelf in the shop to cool down.

All I can think of is the coins/lighter have managed to connetct both poles and it didn't like it.

Result? 1 Naffed battery, 1 nearly burnt right ball

Lesson learnt - don't do it again!
Batteries do not belong in the same enclosure as other metal objects

How about posting a how to video. I'm 61 so the ability to have something hot in my pants on demand sounds pretty good to me.

[ozrick]

*scraps the idea for the all copper battery carrying case*

lol!

I too have tried to be aware of what I'm putting where. We tend to forget these are batteries and heating elements we're playing with. Manual batteries, especially. Imagine having it in your pant pocket and somehow jogging the switch on- YOWCH.

How about posting a how to video. I'm 61 so the ability to have something hot in my pants on demand sounds pretty good to me.

Ok that made me nearly fall over laughing. The funny thing is, like most things that get you hot in the pants, eventually you get a kick to the bits and pieces!

[blotter]

Doh! Sorry. This sort of thing happens to me all the time. I get batteries that start overheating inside of the devices too that are hot enough to startle me in my pants pocket. I've had this happen with 901 and cigar batteries but the serious one was a loose screwdriver battery. That sucker hurt!

[leaford]

I haven't had the hot ball treatment, but I've usually got one e-cig in my shirt pocket, and every now and again I get a hot nipple.

[ozrick]

I haven't had the hot ball treatment, but I've usually got one e-cig in my shirt pocket, and every now and again I get a hot nipple.

Where is Spikey when you need her?

[Jan Zombie]

Hahahahahahahahah (gasp snort, that’s laughed so hard I snorted) lol:you all made my day. Did you do a little hot battery dance? Thanks the advice I’ll keep my batteries and loss change separate: