Battery Terminal Exploded Through Hood

friends shouldnt let friends install, just techsrtfm

well after paying $160 for a battery i wasnt about to pay someone to install it. i guess thats just my stupidity. When you do things right, people won't realize you've done anything at all.

It's threads like this that make me cringe cringe cringe... then double, triple, quadruple check my work. Thats just crazy. And about the battery explosion... Yeah, they explode. Not from the battery heating up. But, because the battery gives off hydrogen (or some explosive gas) and the spark caused by the arcing ignites the gas which expands in the battery. Yikes.Tell the Snap-On guy I'm not here!

well this all sounds to me like i got off lucky. well my friends got off lucky cause if THAT wouldve happened. i sure would have made them pay. Or take it out of their vehicles.When you do things right, people won't realize you've done anything at all.

cleophus wrote: 1965 Buick Skylark,after 20 years the insulation on the positive battery wire finally wore thru on the suspension idler arm.Boom and the power was gone on the freeway.I pulled over ,cracked the hood and saw nothing but 2 battery posts and dripping acid.The battery vapourized.

LOL, that is crazy. I should have been dead long ago. I never knew about these things until a few years ago. It will be one of the first things I teach my son and daughter when they start to work on cars at the tender age of 6I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.