Alright, so here's the story:
The other day my friend noticed that his Aerotank wasn't screwing on to his Spinner battery as well as it once did; the tank was hard to screw on and off, and would get stuck to the point that vice grips were required to remove it. So he figured that maybe the threads were getting a bit messed up on the battery and perhaps some lubrication would help.
He decided that olive oil would be a good choice as it is natual and non-toxic. So he proceeded to drip a tiny bit of olive oil onto the ego threads on the battery, and then rubbed it into the threads to cover all the creases. Before he got a chance to test out screwing his tank onto the battery, it began to heat up, and smoke began roilling out of the top. Naturally he opened the front door as fast as he could, tossed the battery outside, and slammed the door shut behind him. Virtually no damage was sustained to him aside from a minor burn on his finger from the battery rapidly heating up.
We waited about 10 minutes, then went outside to retreive the battery and assess the damage. The battery hadn't exploded,and had begun to cool down, but it was no longer operational as the light would no longer light up whatsoever (as to be expected with an overload and rapid discharge of the battery).
I'm just wondering if on some crazy off chance anybody else has experienced anything like this, and if they could help me clarify exactly what the olive oil did to cause such a violent reaction like this.
The other day my friend noticed that his Aerotank wasn't screwing on to his Spinner battery as well as it once did; the tank was hard to screw on and off, and would get stuck to the point that vice grips were required to remove it. So he figured that maybe the threads were getting a bit messed up on the battery and perhaps some lubrication would help.
He decided that olive oil would be a good choice as it is natual and non-toxic. So he proceeded to drip a tiny bit of olive oil onto the ego threads on the battery, and then rubbed it into the threads to cover all the creases. Before he got a chance to test out screwing his tank onto the battery, it began to heat up, and smoke began roilling out of the top. Naturally he opened the front door as fast as he could, tossed the battery outside, and slammed the door shut behind him. Virtually no damage was sustained to him aside from a minor burn on his finger from the battery rapidly heating up.
We waited about 10 minutes, then went outside to retreive the battery and assess the damage. The battery hadn't exploded,and had begun to cool down, but it was no longer operational as the light would no longer light up whatsoever (as to be expected with an overload and rapid discharge of the battery).
I'm just wondering if on some crazy off chance anybody else has experienced anything like this, and if they could help me clarify exactly what the olive oil did to cause such a violent reaction like this.
