18350 battery and coins don't mix

[Whoust]

Had my 18350 spare sitting in my change compartment in my car surrounded by change, and my hand was above it when i felt heat coming up from the change tray. I reached down to feel the change/ battery and it had to be 1000 degrees, burning the skin on my finger tip. As I threw my battery to the side in a panic, I realized the battery was trippin. I looked at the battery on my passenger side floor about 20 mins later, and decided to give it another shot. It was still almost unbearable, but i managed to move it to my centre console where i let it sit for another hour. Later, I inspected to see the casing shrunk and split all the way to just covering 1/3 of the battery, and the black plastic at the top was all shrunk n damaged.

Don't store your battery with change... cause that's what I'm blaming this on.

 

[kiwivap]

Don't store your battery with change... cause that's what I'm blaming this on.

You're right. Don't store them where they come into contact with metal - that includes car keys. There are small plastic battery boxes that a lot of vendors sell that are easy to carry around and stop them contacting metal objects.

I'm glad you're ok and weren't injured.

 

[rockb4]

battery boxes are cheap insurance.

 

[Baditude]

Original poster, you NEED THIS:

Battery Cases

 

[Fullknight]

DANGER Will Robison


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[budynbuick]

classwife removed quote


Tacky. But, this potentially tragic situation 'should' have been avoided. Heads up all. Play safe.

 

[jmalone]

Count me among the dumb. I never knew this. Thanks for posting, OP. Glad you're okay!

 

[Whoust]

i realize now its dumb and i obviously wont do it again, and I just found out the hard way but i'll take the embarrassment to shine a bit more light on this topic and how serious it is... that thing was hot

 

[Whoust]

Count me among the dumb. I never knew this. Thanks for posting, OP. Glad you're okay!

no problem, learn from my mistake.. thanks im glad too

 

[MorpheusPA]

Ask me about the time I dropped a 9 volt into my pocket.

With my keys.

I rapidly learned the term "hot pocket," although I was saying things that can't be reprinted here.

It happens, we all forget and drop batteries where we oughtn't. Once, at least. After that we tend to be much more careful...

 

[classwife]

chill .

 

[Centurion]

There's 14 users reading this thread at the moment because of the warrantless attention-grabbing title. I think considering what really happened it should be renamed something like "don't store your batteries surrounded by metal in contact with both positive and negative poles because you'll short it out and it could fail". Just sayin'.

 

[Whoust]

Ask me about the time I dropped a 9 volt into my pocket.

With my keys.

I rapidly learned the term "hot pocket," although I was saying things that can't be reprinted here.

It happens, we all forget and drop batteries where we oughtn't. Once, at least. After that we tend to be much more careful...

oh man i can only imagine how that would feel in your pocket lol

 

[classwife]

There's 14 users reading this thread at the moment because of the warrantless attention-grabbing title. I think considering what really happened it should be renamed something like "don't store your batteries surrounded by metal in contact with both positive and negative poles because you'll short it out and it could fail". Just sayin'.

Note that I had already changed it.

 

[Whoust]

sorry guys i dont think ill create a thread anytime soon lol im bad at it

 

[Renolizzie]

I think this is a great reminder that these batteries really are powerful and need to be treated with care. Just glad nothing caught on fire. I'm buying the plastic battery case at the same time I'm buying a back up charger in March.

 

[MorpheusPA]

oh man i can only imagine how that would feel in your pocket lol

In my defense, what little I can offer, I was in the garden and changing batteries in the irrigation timers (which in my case are battery run and need changing yearly). The "dead" battery went into my pocket. I wasn't thinking about what else was in there, I was worrying about getting the system up for the year.

The battery wasn't that "dead," really. It lodged against the keys in the base of my pocket. When I knelt to change the next one, the keys and the battery pressed against my pants pocket and the very tender flesh beneath.

Now I carry them in my hand when I change batteries on anything and discard immediately.

 

[classwife]

sorry guys i dont think ill create a thread anytime soon lol im bad at it

Ahhh...don't go that route...
Just maybe less sensationalizing titles

 

[MorpheusPA]

sorry guys i dont think ill create a thread anytime soon lol im bad at it

I dunno, I looked at it and went, "Oops."

Who thinks about these things all the time? People get distracted and do things they wouldn't do if they were paying a lot of attention to the matter. That's why we call them "accidents." Nobody intended that to happen.

If it keeps somebody from doing the same thing, or dropping a battery into their pocket with their keys (guilty, as I said above), so much the better.

 

[fourthrok]

I'm a great believer in battery boxes! Been using them for ages...have several now. A few months ago the place I usually get the boxes were totally out, so I took an Altoids box and glued felt lining all over it's insides and used that. We do what we must, I guess!!