Hi Peter, Dennis and All,
--- Peter VanDerWal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Magnesium perhaps?
DON'T!!!!
I hope you are kidding Peter, I would NEVER use
magnesium for a battery box. If a good arc directly to
magnesium in a wreck could start a very nasty fire.
VW engine cases do this ocasionally in welding,
grinding accidents!!!!
Be careful doing any kind of work on magnesium.
When a grinding partical catchs fire and imbeds in
your skin it keeps burning, not good. This happen in a
VW shop I used a lot and ruined a teen's face. It's
hard to start but when it does nothing stops it until
the mag is consumed.
Best box for crashes, light weight would be a hi
tech glass with a layer of kelvar in it or completely
made with kevlar.
If properly made, lid secured and attached well,
nothing will cause the batts to do anything but stay
contained.
jerry dycus
>
> Rich Rudman wrote:
>
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >
> >Well time to eat Crow.
> >
> >While on the phone to Dennis. This is a 8 hour a
> week habit right now...
> >
> >I had him do a NiCd electrolyte splash test. He
> dumped some Koh onto a
> >slab of Aluminum. First Nothing, then about 30
> seconds later, small
> >bubbles. Definatley liberating Hydrogen.
> > That means that the cases I have are NOT Aluminum.
> What they are is
> >still a mystery. Most likely Stainless. NON
> magnetic, non Rusting, funny
> >Alum color but heavier. NOT grey like Titanium.
> > I would now test the Steel to see what it does,
> and also Stainless to
> >see the effect.
> >
> >The Alum and KOH is the Draino test. It better
> fizz.
> >
>
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