RE: [RCSE] Lithium battery disposal (follow-up)

[Dave Brombaugh]

Thanks to everyone who replied!   I know what I need to do now – get a bucket of saltwater ready, discharge the batteries completely, then poke holes in them and drop them in that bucket.   You all are a wealth of information. J -          Dave   From: Art Mcnamee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 13:52 To: Martin Usher Cc: soaring@airage.com Subject: Re: [RCSE] Lithium battery disposal   Hi Martin and all, If the battery covering is puffed up don.t poke a pin in it or it will pop and burst into flame right now. Be sure you have slowly discharged it all the way first. They can be scary. Regards, Art Martin Usher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That procedure for disposing of LiPoly sounds a lot like what people used to do in England in WW2 to disarm an unexploded bomb.... (OK, so what they were doing was discharging a battery/capacitor that was part of the electric fuse mechanism, not neutralizing a modern type of battery but it has the same sort of ring to it) Martin Usher RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format