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[Banacanin]

Nothing to do with batteries, but here is how you have some fun with electricity. Take a condenser form a points ignition system, put the lead of it to a ignition wire on your car, ground the case of the condenser, start your car let it run for 10s, shut off the car, unhook the condenser, be careful not to touch the lead and the case at the same time, now throw it at someone and say hey catch!! The look on their face is just priceless when they get hit with 20kv.

Oh my God that is awesome!

 

[parrisw]

Oh my God that is awesome!

Yup, its a load of fun.

For some reason nobody at work trust's me anymore??? Wonder why? I've done a few good dirty tricks to coworkers!! ha ha ha

 

[Brmorgan]

Wow I didn't know it was a guessing game... I dunno, did you hit 'em with a high-frequency generator, like the HF arcstarter circuit of a TIG welder?

Or maybe an ultrasonic cleaner? Not sure what it would do, but hey, I'm guessing here.




The cap method is interesting but sounds risky. I've blown up quite a few caps in my relatively short lifetime, mostly deliberately but some were surprises. When I was in electronics school years ago, we would hook up a tiny polarized cap dead-shorted across a 120V cord, feed the cap under or in behind the bench over to one of your neighbor's stations, plug 'er in, and watch the victim nearly fill their shorts when it explodes like a firecracker.


I'm thinking that you would need to charge the cap to a higher voltage than the battery in question for this method to work though?

 

[Brmorgan]

Nothing to do with batteries, but here is how you have some fun with electricity. Take a condenser form a points ignition system, put the lead of it to a ignition wire on your car, ground the case of the condenser, start your car let it run for 10s, shut off the car, unhook the condenser, be careful not to touch the lead and the case at the same time, now throw it at someone and say hey catch!! The look on their face is just priceless when they get hit with 20kv.

LOL you're a bastard! That could leave a guy with a sore arm for the rest of the day! Funny as hell though!

I've given a few people a good coil jolt by saying "Here, hold this (bare plug wire)" and then giving a good yank either if they don't catch on or aren't paying attention. Some people have no idea what's coming. It's even better if you can flick the kill switch and then get them to pull "to see what happens", and just make like you're able to put up with the pain.

 

[parrisw]

LOL you're a bastard! That could leave a guy with a sore arm for the rest of the day! Funny as hell though!

I've given a few people a good coil jolt by saying "Here, hold this (bare plug wire)" and then giving a good yank either if they don't catch on or aren't paying attention. Some people have no idea what's coming. It's even better if you can flick the kill switch and then get them to pull "to see what happens", and just make like you're able to put up with the pain.

ha ha. Yup I think I've been called that before too!! All fun though. I once wired a guys signal's to his horn, now that was dam funny, every time the signal blinked his horn honked!! Or wait, I also re routed someones washer squirter hose inside the car and up the column and aimed it at the said persons crotch!! Hmm, I think that was the funniest!! When he called me and said his nuts were soaked!!!

 

[Metals406]

Sooooo. . . Still waiting to hear this battery trick. I got some 18V Ryobi's waiting to have some surgery.

:help::help::help::help:

 

[Mastermind]

While we are waiting...wanna play a game? Name this tool? Tell us what is it used for, NOT chainsaw related.

 

[StubornDutchman]

While we are waiting...wanna play a game? Name this tool? Tell us what is it used for, NOT chainsaw related.

Strap wrench for removing oil filters.

 

[Mastermind]

That was too dang easy. Well now we gotta come up with a tough one. Help me out here guys.

 

[Metals406]

Over engineered beer bottle opener?

 

[Mastermind]

Over engineered beer bottle opener?

 

[luvsaws]

ha ha. Yup I think I've been called that before too!! All fun though. I once wired a guys signal's to his horn, now that was dam funny, every time the signal blinked his horn honked!! Or wait, I also re routed someones washer squirter hose inside the car and up the column and aimed it at the said persons crotch!! Hmm, I think that was the funniest!! When he called me and said his nuts were soaked!!!

:hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orange::hmm3grin2orangericeless

 

[tdi-rick]

Nothing to do with batteries, but here is how you have some fun with electricity. Take a condenser form a points ignition system, put the lead of it to a ignition wire on your car, ground the case of the condenser, start your car let it run for 10s, shut off the car, unhook the condenser, be careful not to touch the lead and the case at the same time, now throw it at someone and say hey catch!! The look on their face is just priceless when they get hit with 20kv.

Oldie but a goody, but be a little careful.

Dear old Dad told me the story of when he was an electronics apprentice back in the fifties and that was the standard workshop trick for any new chum.

It all unravelled though when the shop hired a new receptionist who was , in Dad's words very voluptuous and wore low cut tops.
One of the blokes tossed a charged cap as she walked out to the tearoom and she fumbled it straight down the cleavage.

She fainted on the spot and they nearly all got the sack.

 

[StubornDutchman]

That was too dang easy. Well now we gotta come up with a tough one. Help me out here guys.

No suggestions, but what did I WIN!

 

[Metals406]

Oldie but a goody, but be a little careful.

Dear old Dad told me the story of when he was an electronics apprentice back in the fifties and that was the standard workshop trick for any new chum.

It all unravelled though when the shop hired a new receptionist who was , in Dad's words very voluptuous and wore low cut tops.
One of the blokes tossed a charged cap as she walked out to the tearoom and she fumbled it straight down the cleavage.

She fainted on the spot and they nearly all got the sack.

Pics or it didn't happen! :hmm3grin2orange:

 

[pioneerguy600]

Well no close answers on the battery charge deal so here goes. I remembered reading some years ago that a hot or heated up battery from the drill would not take as good a charge as a cool battery would so when I was thinking what I could do with my 4 batterys that thought crossed my mind again. I went and put one battery in the freezer, left it there one hour, took it out and put it in the charger. It charged for 14-15 mins and then stopped taking a charge. I immediately put it in a drill and strapped the trigger down so it would run wide open and discharged it in 12 mins run time. Put it back in the freezer for another hour and repeated the senario. Next time it took the charge for 36 mins. and took close to an hour to discharge. Repeated the cooldown and recharge, this time it charged for 47 mins and took close to 2 hrs to discharge it, toward the end of the discharge cycle I put some strain on the chuck by holding it with my hand until it would not turn any longer. Repeated the cool down and recharge cycle, it took charge for 1 hr 5 mins and have not completely discharged it yet but will complet the discharge this evening and put it back on the charger.
Once this seemed to be working I took the other three batteries and staggered them between cycles and all of them took good charges, one was a little slower picking up on the first two cycles but then took off on the third cycle and is just as good as the others now.
[ Disclaimer]
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If you try this on your batteries and it does not work or they freeze and split open or some other bad thing happens to them, I am not," responsible"
It worked for me and I am just relating the results.
Pioneerguy600

 

[Banacanin]

How to Save a Battery

Well no close answers on the battery charge deal so here goes. I remembered reading some years ago that a hot or heated up battery from the drill would not take as good a charge as a cool battery would so when I was thinking what I could do with my 4 batterys that thought crossed my mind again. I went and put one battery in the freezer, left it there one hour, took it out and put it in the charger. It charged for 14-15 mins and then stopped taking a charge. I immediately put it in a drill and strapped the trigger down so it would run wide open and discharged it in 12 mins run time. Put it back in the freezer for another hour and repeated the senario. Next time it took the charge for 36 mins. and took close to an hour to discharge. Repeated the cooldown and recharge, this time it charged for 47 mins and took close to 2 hrs to discharge it, toward the end of the discharge cycle I put some strain on the chuck by holding it with my hand until it would not turn any longer. Repeated the cool down and recharge cycle, it took charge for 1 hr 5 mins and have not completely discharged it yet but will complet the discharge this evening and put it back on the charger.
Once this seemed to be working I took the other three batteries and staggered them between cycles and all of them took good charges, one was a little slower picking up on the first two cycles but then took off on the third cycle and is just as good as the others now.
[ Disclaimer]
----------------
If you try this on your batteries and it does not work or they freeze and split open or some other bad thing happens to them, I am not," responsible"
It worked for me and I am just relating the results.
Pioneerguy600

This sounds like a solution anyone can try! awesome post and worth the wait.

 

[bigbadbob]

Some stuff.
My old tools, some communications stuff, the operators 'KEY' is my wifes dads, you know he actuall use din on the railway for morse code!!!
A miners lamp. And a tool for calculatin the height of trees etc.
My old free transit.
Some mantels bought in 1950.

 

[Mastermind]

No suggestions, but what did I WIN!

A new saw...go see thall...

 

[bigbadbob]

My $30 antique safe with all papers etc and and my free one.