nigele(ADMIN)2 Tue Mar 01, 2011 5:15 pm
I ought to say that my info on lipo's is well out of date now,and thing's could well have changed but I will tell you the story anyway,some years ago when I worked for a well known model shop a rep came in and asked me if I would run lipo's in my submarines if he supplied them free of charge so that his company could use the advertising,what he did not know was that I had seen a helli with a lipo get caught in a storm and the lipo erupt in to a flaming ball,so I said to him I was not interested but he persisted so in the end I said to him tell you what throw one in a buckett of water,so I went and got a buckett of water and we adjorned to the forcourt and he trow this lipo in and it was fine,we left it there for age's no problem,I was on the point of changing my mind when my collegue said to me that the lipo in the helli that caught fire had a small tear in the outer cover,so I asked the rep if we could put a nick in the cover of the one we where testing he said yes he was confident it would make no difference,so we put a tiney nick in the cover dropped it back in the buckett and sure enough all seemed fine,then there was a slight fizzing noise then a boom and a flash,no buckett no battery and no trouser leg,and a guy riding past on a bike jumped and rode into a lamp post,exit very emmbarased rep.But as I say this is a long time ago now things may well have changed.
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