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How to stop a shorted mech mod from exploding
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If you use the equipment safely and don't get complacent that situation should never arise.
In the case of a short, whatever breaks the circuit quickest is the best option.
If your batteries go into full thermal runaway then you are in a world of hurt as the process is irreversible. Other that trying to throw the mod onto something non-combustible there's not much you can do.
I had an 18650 go on me and it was ugly. The mech mod propelled itself around the floor like a bottle rocket emitting toxic smoke sparks and flames, then the red hot tube burned a pit in my wooden floor before it was cool enough to move.
In the case of a short, whatever breaks the circuit quickest is the best option.
If your batteries go into full thermal runaway then you are in a world of hurt as the process is irreversible. Other that trying to throw the mod onto something non-combustible there's not much you can do.
I had an 18650 go on me and it was ugly. The mech mod propelled itself around the floor like a bottle rocket emitting toxic smoke sparks and flames, then the red hot tube burned a pit in my wooden floor before it was cool enough to move.
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The very times this has happened to me, on both mechs and regulated, I turned the atty and dropped it towards the nearest cover I could...
A few of my old Border team saw this once in the office as an old ego hit the metal trash can.. when I told them the deal they freaked.. I just laughed and told them I use to make field expedient explosives for 12 Bravos....
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A few of my old Border team saw this once in the office as an old ego hit the metal trash can.. when I told them the deal they freaked.. I just laughed and told them I use to make field expedient explosives for 12 Bravos....
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Haven't "had" the experience (yet) but if it does happen, I'm going to do like I always do. Panic.
Then throw the offending object as far from me as I can with girl screams. Although the husband was out yesterday dropping off the kid, and even in my enfeebled, kidney infection state I was able to kill one of those palmetto bugs the size of Rhode Island that showed up in my house, but only because I couldn't bear the idea of it occupying my house along side of me. I will admit that once it died, I screamed heartily, like a girl, and dropped the flyswatter and left. I did clean it up this morning, but it wasn't cool.
I highly doubt that whatever my "plans" might be for how to handle a dead short, that thing is going to get thrown far, far away, onto whatever area it lands, while I tea kettle it up. That's just going to be how it goes, so I think I will spend a lot of time planning on not having a dead short, that seems smarter to me.
Anna
Then throw the offending object as far from me as I can with girl screams. Although the husband was out yesterday dropping off the kid, and even in my enfeebled, kidney infection state I was able to kill one of those palmetto bugs the size of Rhode Island that showed up in my house, but only because I couldn't bear the idea of it occupying my house along side of me. I will admit that once it died, I screamed heartily, like a girl, and dropped the flyswatter and left. I did clean it up this morning, but it wasn't cool.
I highly doubt that whatever my "plans" might be for how to handle a dead short, that thing is going to get thrown far, far away, onto whatever area it lands, while I tea kettle it up. That's just going to be how it goes, so I think I will spend a lot of time planning on not having a dead short, that seems smarter to me.
Anna
Ah, you do know those "palmetto" bugs are just giant flying cockroaches? Only way I know of to be sure they're best attacked is by tossing shorting 18650s at them. Tough on the battery budget and home insurance but I like a sure kill when it comes to those things.
Yes Eskie, I do know. I have had a giant flying cockroach in my hair one time (it was at the old house, where I also had an encounter with a rattlesnake). That is THE ONLY reason that I was willing to kill it. I swatted its wings off, then disabled the rest of it as it slowly began scurrying away.
If we don't get that vapor barrier, I mean if the husband doesn't get that vapor barrier up soon, I might have to move/divorce etc.
Anna
If we don't get that vapor barrier, I mean if the husband doesn't get that vapor barrier up soon, I might have to move/divorce etc.
Anna
I did a job in Tucson years ago. I was more concerned about scorpions than I was about palmetto bugs.
It's the little ones you have to worry about. Believe me when I say I can be concerned about various venomous and evil insects all at once... I've been bitten TWICE by black recluses (on the face.... 
) and our dogs have been bitten on several occasions by rattlers.
I'm starting to think I should keep a shorted mod on my person at all times just to throw at the venomous beasts and whatnot.
You get used to it though. I have to admit that you kind of do, as regardless of my true feelings on the subject, I've gotten a lot better at killing horrifying things without having a heart attack. But, overall, it's just not great at all.... Plus we live rural, we get coyotes in the yard (they eat my bunnies! ) Packrat jolly rancher stealers, all kinds of madness. The husband is dead set against venom defense for our home, and it's usually not that bad, but we usually have things sealed up more tightly than previously.... So what's a good clone for a mech that has an easy blow up option?
Please don't take that question seriously...
Anna
) and our dogs have been bitten on several occasions by rattlers. I'm starting to think I should keep a shorted mod on my person at all times just to throw at the venomous beasts and whatnot.
You get used to it though. I have to admit that you kind of do, as regardless of my true feelings on the subject, I've gotten a lot better at killing horrifying things without having a heart attack. But, overall, it's just not great at all....
Plus we live rural, we get coyotes in the yard (they eat my bunnies! ) Packrat jolly rancher stealers, all kinds of madness. The husband is dead set against venom defense for our home, and it's usually not that bad, but we usually have things sealed up more tightly than previously.... So what's a good clone for a mech that has an easy blow up option?Please don't take that question seriously...
Anna
It's the little ones you have to worry about. Believe me when I say I can be concerned about various venomous and evil insects all at once... I've been bitten TWICE by black recluses (on the face....
I'm starting to think I should keep a shorted mod on my person at all times just to throw at the venomous beasts and whatnot.
You get used to it though. I have to admit that you kind of do, as regardless of my true feelings on the subject, I've gotten a lot better at killing horrifying things without having a heart attack. But, overall, it's just not great at all....
Please don't take that question seriously...
Anna
I think there used to be a mod available in the early/mid 1940's that had such a function upon the pulling of a pin.
I hate to bring a note of sanity to this, but it seems to me the easiest way to stop a shorting mech is to not short the silly thing. I have never shorted one, but I do own one with a really finicky button lock. The lock is solid when it's set, but it's pretty easy to think you've set it and not quite gotten there. So I set it down in the console cup holder once, with the lock not set. And it autofired, just like a good little mech when you push the button. I noticed a bit later, seeing vapor rising out of the mouthpiece. My immediate thought was to unscrew the atty, which I proceeded to do and managed successfully, or at least the battery did not vent.
But I burned the
out of my hand. The atty was pretty hot, you see...
But I burned the
out of my hand. The atty was pretty hot, you see...- Status
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