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A tip for you and anyone else doing this: do yourself a favor and get a heat gun or other tools required to at remove and recycle the battery, before your house
by avar 3y ago
A tip for you and anyone else doing this: do yourself a favor and get a heat gun or other tools required to at remove and recycle the battery, before your house burns down.
I've had various old phones, laptops speakers etc. that became bloated in storage because an internal lithium ion cell was halfway ruptured.
And once you do that it's usually trivial to pop out and destroy the motherboard or storage device, especially as you don't care about doing so destructively. Then you can recycle the rest.
- toast0 3y agoIf the battery bloats up, it often helps undo the glue. Win-win
- rektide 3y agoI'd be interested to find out how many of these bloated batteries still have any charge. Internal discharge feels like a pretty nice accidental safety feature, albeit at the price of also killing a lot of old devices. But yeah, preemptively removing batteries for safety is a good move.
- avar 3y agoIt's less dangerous, but some of the flammability is inherent in the chemicals withing the battery, and how they'll react to oxygen or water. Let's say that you were able to magically disassemble a cellphone battery into its constituent elements and compounds, made rods out of each, and then sealed each rod in a zip-lock bag in a vacuum chamber. The resulting collection of zip-lock bags is still something you wouldn't want to keep on a shelf somewhere, e.g. https://youtu.be/Vxqe_ZOwsHs https://youtu.be/Vxqe_ZOwsHs shows how elemental lithium reacts.