Battery Terminal Exploded Through Hood
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Topic: Battery Terminal Exploded Through Hood
Posted By: smurphalurph
Subject: Battery Terminal Exploded Through Hood
Date Posted: July 11, 2006 at 5:30 PM
This has to be just my luck. Last Night my friends and i were wrestling around and one of my friends was thrown on to my hood. It looked like someone threw firecrackers on my car and a nice little fireball to go with it. It Melted the nut to the battery. Has AnyOne ever seen this happen before?
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Posted By: auex
Date Posted: July 11, 2006 at 5:47 PM
Yup, welded it.
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Posted By: haemphyst
Date Posted: July 11, 2006 at 6:22 PM
Yep... as auex said, it's called "welding".
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Posted By: KarTuneMan
Date Posted: July 11, 2006 at 7:48 PM
I'd get the guys that did the throwing, and got thrown....to pay to have it fixed....thats unreal!
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Posted By: spookiestylez
Date Posted: July 11, 2006 at 10:04 PM
hope they got some plastic, cuz you shouldnt have to pay for your ignorant friends!
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RTFM
Posted By: gus1
Date Posted: July 12, 2006 at 10:08 AM
Something to be said about putting in the proper sized battery in a car.......
I love seeing the odd GM that someone has put a top post battery into..... there just isn't the clearance on some models....
Gus
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Posted By: Melted Fabric
Date Posted: July 12, 2006 at 10:18 AM
Hell, they got off lucky, and you too. Usually if you let metal, like say, a wrench short the two posts of the battery together, it will EXPLODE.
I never knew about it until about 2 years ago. My mentor was telling about the time he had went up to Pepboys for something and there was an ambulance there by the shop entrance. One of the mechanics who was working on a car, sat a wrench down on the battery, .... BOOOOM!!! ..... sounded like a cannon had gone off, the guy had gauze pads all around his eyes when they took him away, he was in bad shape but luckily still had his life.
Also, for people who like to wear jewelry while working on cars, I forget the details but things like rings and braclets, and necklaces, if they short with the electrical system in some manner (like I said, I forget how) they will "weld to you too."
I will see if I can get the details for that later.
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Posted By: smurphalurph
Date Posted: July 12, 2006 at 2:57 PM
Well its nothing a little bondo cant fix. So I really dont mind. It just scared the doodie outta me. That would have sucked if my battery blew up. But I guess the way the hoods shaped it only touched the pos+. (still sucks) My friend thought I was gonna punch him in the mouth. I said if you ****d up my system ill do more than punch you in the mouth.
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Posted By: meltingplastic
Date Posted: July 12, 2006 at 3:15 PM
insulate the area by the terminals so that never happens again.. i have a gm with an optima and am using the top mounts and my terminals all have plasitc covers... i aint risking nething like that!
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Posted By: Melted Fabric
Date Posted: July 13, 2006 at 10:57 PM
Yea, Stinger and Streetwires sale nice Battery Terminals.
Nice forum name, meltingplastic  heh ------------- I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
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Posted By: spookiestylez
Date Posted: July 15, 2006 at 11:30 PM
friends shouldnt let friends install, just techs
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RTFM
Posted By: smurphalurph
Date Posted: July 16, 2006 at 8:25 PM
well after paying $160 for a battery i wasnt about to pay someone to install it. i guess thats just my stupidity.
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Posted By: 5150azn
Date Posted: July 17, 2006 at 11:23 AM
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.
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Posted By: cleophus
Date Posted: July 18, 2006 at 3:51 AM
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.
Posted By: smurphalurph
Date Posted: July 18, 2006 at 4:31 AM
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.
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Posted By: Melted Fabric
Date Posted: July 18, 2006 at 10:43 AM
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 6 ------------- I 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.
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