Now I'm sure none of us would do this........but we might know someone who could. A friend of mine, who knows about motors and things mechanical, put a battery on charge the other day as the cold weather etc. had got to it. He put it on charge in the morning, went to work and promptly forgot about it. Thus it was on a high charge rate a whole day and most of the night. At about 5.00 a.m a loud bang woke him and his missus up and he went to investigate. His garage adjoins the house and when he went in there was a strong smell of acid and that unmistakeable odour of burning electrics. Pieces of battery were scattered around the garage and acid was happily burning its way through various items, in particular the paintwork of his very precious Triumph motorcycle. What caused it? He had neglected to loosen or remove the six plugs on the top of the battery and the gas produced by the charging action built up inside it until the pressure got so high it explode the battery. Lucky he didn't charge it up in the kitchen like many people do. (I've another tale about that but you've probably had enough for tonight)!
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TCE - if he hasn't learned to be safe by now, I fear he never will. I assume he didn't ever start a thread about setting fire to my feet by pouring petrol on a bonfire?
He was standing 12 feet away when went up. The noise was deafening.
Them were the days when you could do that to the children, with no fear of the social services getting involved.
My Grandson's only 8, he's got his own fecking Lawyer. ; )
We have them we just don't drive them - that's why the batteries go flat!