Comment on is our battery/junk drawer dangerous?
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 5 days ago
I can see 2 possibly bad scenarios:
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Tools with open metal surfaces (left corner) could short circuit a battery, if it touches both poles at once. But most of your batteries are still in packaging.
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Lithium batteries could heat up and then catch fire. This happens usually to very old lithium batteries while charging. Watch out if their outer shape changes, if they start looking like a fat belly, then get rid of them.