WARNING to ALL. This in NO JOKE PLEASE READ !!!

[ConceptualizedNetherlandr]

Benzocaine spray for the pain.

 

[Paul Revere’s Ghost]

I have a better idea now why they do not want them on Air Flights

I got pulled out of TSA line in Boston Wednesday and some little girl made a big deal of my Garret carrot being in my personal item (little back pack). I told her there was a battery in it and that’s their own recommended way to carry it. On board in a device. It was in vibrate mode. I think she wanted to keep it. I let her know I was having none of that.

 

[Gare]

I thank all that have shared experiences and ideas I had no idea how dangerous these could be. PLEASE ALL BE SAFE !!!

 

[metalman2024]

feel your pain, reminds me of a time a thorium impregnated fabric lantern mantle steel cover handle flopped sideways on top of my hand and just melted the skin in an instant, very painful, or when you go and pick up the handle of a pot with metal handle that the water evaporated when you forgot it on the stove, though I had one yellow-sac spider bite on my foot that lasted 3 days in off and on pain

 

[metalman2024]

Gare,
Glad you are OK, but knowing what lithium batteries can do--then puncturing a swollen lithium battery in hopes that it will contract to its original shape to fit properly in a battery pack reminds me of this picture. View attachment 2207699
Don in SoCal

can't say I haven't done something as stupid as in the picture, like opening the trunk of a brand new SUV underneath a reserved parking sign as a small example, you can imagine what it did to the paint

 

[Kevin t Mackay]

Last Sunday evening i was recharging some of my drones batteries. On my one of my DJI Mini 2 drones I had a battery that was swelled up. It would not go into either of my drones. I would not go into my charger device either. The lithium battery was so swelled it would not go into my charging device nor into either of my drones. So i got this idea to take a sharp knife and just tap a small hole in the device to relieve the swelling. I took a sharp knife and had the battery up on one of my desks, I took the knife and put it on top of the battery and tapped on it to punch a hole in the battery. BAM it exploded and on my desk next to a computer. I knocked in on to a carpet floor. It started to burn . It was small battery. It fell into 2 pieces. Each half was burning. I had no shoes on just heavy wool socks, But i had to put the small fires out. First one i stepped on got the fire out the next one i stepped on with my other foot put that one out also. My feet hurt like heck .Me and my wife scrapped the plastic off of my feet what we could. I ran cool water over my feet for maybe 5 minutes. Then putting a burning type salve on them and bandage them up and went to bed. The next morning they hurt so bad the next morning i went to the hospital. They cleaned them up and told me they was only 1st degree burns They said they were 1st degree burns . They wrapped them up and gave me some salve for them and wanterd my to check in with the Akron hospital burn center.



This was all my fault. This is what i think from now on with Lithium batteries .

If one of these batteries I will dispose of it properly . I WILL NEVER leave one on a charge cord unattended, DO NOT take any chances with them.

I had to put the fire out as quick as i could !!


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I don't know but I take it your a citizen of the USA

 

[russau]

Gare,
Glad you are OK, but knowing what lithium batteries can do--then puncturing a swollen lithium battery in hopes that it will contract to its original shape to fit properly in a battery pack reminds me of this picture. View attachment 2207699
Don in SoCal

Well I certainly wouldn't be doing that in a nice suit!