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

2005-05-23 Thread Dave Brombaugh
:[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

Re: [RCSE] Lithium battery disposal

2005-05-22 Thread Art Mcnamee
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, ArtMartin Usher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That procedure for disposing of LiPoly sounds

Re: [RCSE] Lithium battery disposal

2005-05-21 Thread Martin Usher
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

Re: [RCSE] Lithium battery disposal

2005-05-21 Thread Dan Kitching
Hi Dave, Use a light bulb or similar to drain the cell(s) down to zero voltage. Leave the load on there for some time to make sure the cell is truly empty. Once that's done, puncture the plastic envelope in a few places and soak them in very salty water for a day or so. Then you can just thro

Re: [RCSE] Lithium battery disposal

2005-05-21 Thread Dan
I put mine in the neighbor's curb-side mailbox:~)   DanDave Brombaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Folks,We have several Lithium Ion/Li-poly cells at work, two of which havegotten pretty bloated.It's my understanding that it would be good to get rid of these prettyquickly - ideally before we burn th

[RCSE] Lithium battery disposal

2005-05-21 Thread Dave Brombaugh
Folks, We have several Lithium Ion/Li-poly cells at work, two of which have gotten pretty bloated. It's my understanding that it would be good to get rid of these pretty quickly - ideally before we burn the building down. What is the best way to get rid of these batteries when they are in this st