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Rick
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Hmmphhhh. Decided to put my spare 6v battery on charge, just to keep it ticking over nicely. Unfortunately, while sliding it onto the bench - and pushing some tools out of the way in the process - it slipped, dropped, sheared the air outlet thing off my compressor, and split the casing of the battery, spilling acid onto the floor.  Think I'll stay indoors this evening before I break anything else 
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victor 101
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| I guess it could have been worse if the compressor had been running and you had 100psi to help your outlet pipe on its way. Hope the acid didnt spread to far and you were able to wash down okay. |
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peter scott
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Bad luck Rick.
A few months back a friend was welding near to a battery that was on charge. The battery exploded presumably due to the hydrogen catching alight.
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47p2
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We take too many items for granted and ignore any safety hazards that could be attached with them.
I wonder what a health & safety officer would find wrong with our garages if he were to pay us a visit
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StoneRoad
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oopps. bet that was "interesting" for a while!
as long as you are OK!
everything else can be repaired(ish)
'elf and safety! don't get me started.....
sensible, common sense precautions are a very good idea, but the extremes they sometimes suggest....
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Jim.Walker
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I often seem to post things from my past prompted by something posted by another!
This time by an exploding battery. One of our apprentices was lucky to escape blinding when he was removing a spark plug from a 105E Anglia with an extended shank plug spanner. The spanner shank touched the live terminal of the battery and it exploded blowing the casing off one end cell. Big Bang! Acid everywhere! And one very frightened (and lucky) apprentice. 105 owners (and perhaps others) - beware!
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Richard H
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My dad told me of the time he was working on his Sherpa campervan and left a spanner resting on the battery...well of course it bridged the terminals and BANG. He had tinnitus for a week 
Glad you and the cars are alright Rick.
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Probably a bit late now, and likely you have thought of it, but baking soda (Sodium Bicarbonate), either as a dusting, or as a solution, would help neutralise the acid on the floor, and anywhere else for that matter.
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buzzy bee
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Hi
I had a nice 6 volt batery once, and found it smashed on the floor one morning, stored away from home, of course no one confessed to knocking it over, and when I asked about it, they were more worried about the floor!! 
£150 down the drain!
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Nic Jarman
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When I was stripping a Suzuki GT500 engine I was standing next to the battery charging trolley. The conditions must have been just right and I was being very gently misted with acid vapour. When I got home I felt a burning sensation and put my hand in my pocket, my trousers fell apart and my pants were not much better. Thank God it did not happen in public. When I got to work the next day my overalls had dissintergrated. 
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Jim.Walker
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That battery must have been JUST a LITTLE too hot!
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| 47p2 wrote: | We take too many items for granted and ignore any safety hazards that could be attached with them.
I wonder what a health & safety officer would find wrong with our garages if he were to pay us a visit |
Never a truer word spoken - I attended a number of serious accidents in both commercial and home garages, the majority of which were caused by people getting it wrong.
My top three garage accidents -
At Number 1: Welding fuel tanks that weren't properly purged
Number 2: Insecure jacking of vehicles that slipped off crushing the person underneath
Number 3: Surprisingly for many, individuals pinned under shelving units that finally gave up the ghost when that last heavy spanner was placed on it and toppling over because it wasn't secured to the wall. |
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Fortunately nothing shiny was parked nearby so no damaged paint.
