Ticking time bomb?
 

I've got a badly swollen pack of Lipos sat in the middle of the garden outside and it's just started to pour down with rain......

film it :D

Cover it in salt and it will do all the work for you - saline solution without adding to your water bill!! :thumbsup:

poke it with a stick:woot:

Very dangerous,i would suggest leaving it out there until it burns off. As we all know the fumes from lipo batterys are very dangerous so stay back.

If you feel brave,cover it with salt (like someone else said) but i wouldn't suggest going near the exploding lipo.

If you have a Foam fire extinguisher cover the entire battery with that and hopefully that should stop it.

Good luck.

Thanks.

Go on, shoot it, you know you want to.........

Aaaaah fireworks, if you are lucky anyway, its notlikely to do much unless you charge or short it out

1:setup your cam corder
2:throw darts at it
3:roast marshmallows but from a distance

I've had two sets sat in a wheel barrow for months... still not gone up!

BB Gun time! (or Darts, you northern boys always have darts laying around for t'pub time)

My bet is it does nothing too...

What exactly is the correct method of disposal?

Neil,the current form of disposal is chucking it at your neighbors house i think.You might have to check with someone though.

since it's an open forum i would suggest disoposal in a safe and correct manner in accordance with manufacturers guidelines...

if it was'nt an open forum then i'd say put a hood on (to keep dry) and go pelt it with stones/bricks etc if an air rifle is available then bingo!

just keep any pets/kids away from it... wouldn't want the dog marking it as his and getting a shock! :lol:

i say chuck lighter fluid on it and get the party started

ok,sorry,safty first,put some gloves on so you dont get splinters from the point stick:lol:

It may set on fire but wont explode

Any noisy chavs in your steet with those loud exhausts? Stick the batteries in the tailpipe.

Loving the last post and I am eying up the bean can on the little sh£$s sewing machine right now.
Anyway I heard that to dispose of a lipo you should bury it in a steel bucket full of sand left outside to fill with rain which will subdue any actions and discharge the cell quickly rendering it useless and safe but I don't know why or where I heard it?

You stab them with a screwdriver to let the air out when they are swollen.

Tony Stark's ya man. I'll see what he says

Just spoke to Tony, He says he will get the Hulk to swing by and swallow it up as a tasty bedtime snack, Hope your house is well insured:p

Remember to put your ear on it to make sure all the air escapes! :woot:

Or have a look in the hole you made:cry::wtf::wtf:

And after stabbing it a few times remember to sit on it.I heard it saves the battery. We need good advice like this especially in these though finical times!.:lol:

Buy some new ones.

Ask a Redneck?

how about you put it in a 410,that usualy does the trick:p

This post has discusted me. The flippent attitude towards what is a very serious issue.

Swollen LiPo's are nothing to be taken lightly, and dealing with them also should be taken with a greater sense of.............oh who am I kidding....throw a hammer at it and see if it goes's off like one of those chinese bang bang's you used to throw at the floor !

PS....don't throw it at it to close

PPS......mind when the detination fires the hammer back into the air that it doesn't come back the same way it travelled

PPPS...........don't waste salt....you will need it to kill slugs and grit your drive in the winter

PPPPS..................is the LiPo still swollen ?

I have a guess the taste of those marshmallows will be very energizing... :p

The battery is the least of your problems now. As you may be aware there are certain trigger words that are monitored over the web.
TICKING TIMEBOMB is probably one of them.
When your in bed tonight and hear glass breaking,dogs snarling and a huge bang followed by teargas and a load of gun barrels pointing at you by big huge men in black, make sure you got your skiddies on when they haul you down the road.

:lol:

Ebay them - just make sure you don't have to wait too long in the post office queue holding them when you go to post them.:lol:

Seriously though I would stick in a bucket of salt water and leave for a few days then take to local recycling centre. I had a pack that were slightly swollen (enough to crack the case slightly) because I had stupidly left connected in car and I just put it in a bucket of sand and thought I'd sort it out later. Few days later (4 or 5 days) when I went to sort it out it had swollen out of all shape, almost twisted. Amazed it had not burst. Chucked it in a bucket of salt water (I used loads because I was scared) and it deflated over a couple of days. In future I'll deal with any cells like this straight away because they are not going to get any better.

Rob

Should we be worried that Northy hasn't replied to this thread since yesterday?
Has anyone heard from him?
Have there been any reports of house fires in his area?