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Date:         Wed, 14 Feb 2007 11:24:04 -0800
Reply-To:     Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Robert Fisher <refisher@MCHSI.COM>
Subject:      Re: Batteries don't die, they get murdered
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--snip--
>The Hindenberg didn't explode, it burned.
--snip--


... and apparently it did so because it was coated with a flammable sealant-
had nothing per se to do with the hydrogen. My grandfather was on the ground
there when it happened- it made quite an impression on him.


I once happened to be looking in the right direction and saw a battery
explode in a Jeep (hey, maybe it runs in the family). I have no idea why it
happened of course, but it knocked a couple of people to the ground and the
hood of the Jeep landed about 15 feet away. Sometimes I wonder if my wife is
riding around on some German engineer's idea of a kind of a Russian Roulette
ejection seat.


Cya,
Robert
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