Battery just blew up in my dads face!

[The King]

It prevents any sparking at the battery terminals.

[Tyrone Biggums]

Scary stuff. I was about 100ft. away from an El Dorado bus when one of the two 8D's in the battery compartment blew and almost needed a change of pants. Not the kind of sound you want to be close to when you're on airport grounds.

[Z06killinsbf]

Glad to hear your dad is OK.

The last thing I do when charging a battery is plug the charger in, and the first thing I do is unplug it before touching the charging clips.

Thats my procedure as well.

My dad told me a story of when he was charging the battery in his 73 Camaro and it blew the trunk lid up and spit acid all over the back of the car.

[JimD]

I seen some douche hook two 12v in series to spin a diesel over faster. Blew both apart, cases and all into little pieces, loud as heck too.

[GhostTX]

Glad he's ok! They don't have eye replacements yet.

...Yeah I had a firework accident a few years ago involving my eye. Took them 30 minutes to clean out my eye and shit.

This is why I wear my shooting glasses and make my kids wear child's safety/shooting glasses when we do fireworks. We might look like dorks at a science fair, but I don't have to worry about the eyes.

[Lason]

Glad to hear your dad is OK.

The last thing I do when charging a battery is plug the charger in, and the first thing I do is unplug it before touching the charging clips.

Yeah when I first called him in a panic he answered laughing and the first thing he said was "son, Im talking to the eye doctor right now but Im going to call you right back and give you some advice my daddy gave me that I obviously didnt listen to" lol.

He was talking about unplugging the charger before messing with the clips as well.

[crapstang]

win

[Tx Redneck]

Glad your Dad is alright Lason.

[jw33]

It happens...

[LS1Goat]

lucky guy.