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obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5742

getting fire with battery and ironwool.

http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-...without-matches-or-a-lighter-9386

Radiate_Truth · Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 1056

That is cool!!!

Can it be any type of battery or does it have to be a square battery, like in the video???

We had an usually isolated incident at work. Where a girl kept a extra battery pack for a scanner in her pant's pocket. She did it one day with coins; nickels and quarters in her pant's pocket. Her blue jean pocket started smoking like it was about to catch on fire...

obmar · Site Admin Joined: 14 Apr 2006 Posts: 5742

When Travelling, batteries for the cameras seemed to be compulsory. And normally I would just throw them into the bag.

Last week my son followed me on a trip to Singapore.

He told me that batteries must not be placed that way.
Then he showed me some tight battery container to hold the batteries.

Why?

Because when the batteries touch each other in the bag, not only they drain off quickly, but it makes their rechargeable life shorter.

See...

Kids can teach us more these days....