9 volt batteries burn down a home!

[RugerHound]

This is an incredibly important video to watch. 9 VDC batteries are very dangerous little critters when they're laying around uncapped. Unlike cylindrical batteries with poles on opposite ends (and with lower capacity), 9 volt batteries can short out easily due to the proximity of the two sets of poles.

Be careful RF members! I'm betting some of you already know this... Others may have a palm in the forehead moment! ;)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnVDayI-gwI

 

[Danjet500]

We are required at my workplace to tape the ends of all types of batteries before we dispose of them. Good advice for the home too.

 

[RugerHound]

Great advice Dan!

 

[Mobuck]

I had a 22lr cartridge set off by a loose 9volt in a fanny pack ONCE. Fortunately, I wasn't wearing the pack at the time of detonation.

 

[Cholo]

I have a friend in New Orleans that had his out building/business office burn to the ground for the same reason. He heard the "puhhh" when he pulled in his riding lawnmower after shutting it off and thought it was just backfiring. It wasn't. It was a plastic bowl full of old batteries shorting. Be careful with any old batteries, not just 9v's!

 

[Robb Barnes]

Yes sirree, a 9 volt battery and a little steel wool and fire in the hole. Years ago our pastor used those two items in a word picture during a sermon. Later I saw a kid in Jr. High /Sunday School start hollering and slapping his pocket which were smoking. He had heard the pastor and thought he was pulling the congregations leg so he had stuck a 9v battery and a bit of steel wool in his front jeans pocket. During the middle of the lesson the steel wool finally slid around in his pocket and touched both terminals and presto we almost had a 12 year old with his own private "hotdog" roast! :shock:

 

[6gun]

Yup we were taught how to start camp fires with a battery and steel wool as a boy scout got to be careful how any battery is stored for sure.

once saw a carpenter start his tool bags on fire he was wearing, he put a cordless drill battery in one of the pockets, was funny watching him dancing around trying to put it out, he decided it wasn't such a good idea after that. :lol:

 

[blume357]

This is terrible... why don't they just outlaw them?

 

[Mobuck]

This is terrible... why don't they just outlaw them?

Good question. I'm thinking it's a "business opportunity" to design and market little plastic covers for the terminals. If patented and later a Federal regulation requirement, it's a bonanza.

 

[powder smoke]

This is terrible... why don't they just outlaw them?

Got plenty of laws already, want more? Not I.

Thanks RH good to know! ps

 

[6gun]

This is terrible... why don't they just outlaw them?

Good question. I'm thinking it's a "business opportunity" to design and market little plastic covers for the terminals. If patented and later a Federal regulation requirement, it's a bonanza.

Actually those batteries do come with plastic covers like the Makita's many of us use they do, sloppy guys that don't take care of their tools usually just toss those them away or are to lazy to use them.