Re: FIRE !!!

["ABLE_1" <royboynospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I understand the spent battery issue as well.  A while back I had replaced a
9 volt battery somewhere for something and put it in my jacket pocket.
Needless to say for got about it and a couple of days later what getting
what I needed to install a motion or something and threw a couple of wall
anchors with screws into the same pocket of the same jacket.  Lucky for me I
felt the heat before it got too bad but it did burn a hole in the pocket.  I
am sure there is some ancient Chinese Confucius saying that would apply to
this but I can't quite put it together at the moment.

Glad yours was not any worse that what your described.  Still a wake up
call.

Later,

Les



"Bob La Londe" <nospam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Trust your senses.  I pulled up to a job site, and smelled hot plastic a
> little while ago.  I walked around, and could not find anything, so I went
> to work.  A little while later I headed out to my truck to get
> something... I don't even remember what.  When I opened up the side box on
> my work cap I was greeted by flames.  Fun.  My big tool bag had fallen
> over dumping a file across the terminals of a spent battery I had not
> tossed in the spent pile back at the shop yet.  Plastic terminal caps were
> in place on the battery. I set on fire a large plastic case full of
> security tips, the handle of my drywall saw, and a stud finder.  One of
> the fancy video ones.  I flicked the file off the battery, blew out the
> flames, and decided I needed to go back to the shop and wash out my side
> box.  Ouch.  What a mess.  Tools lost probably fifty or sixty bucks, but
> the entire work cap smells like plastic smoke, and I have to wash out what
> looks like acid from the box.
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> Be careful.  Even a spent battery can be dangerous.  I guess I'm lucky.
> In (more than) fifteen years doing this I have never had something like
> this happen, but I have always been careful because I knew it could
> happen.
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> Bob La Londe
> I should gone fishing today.
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