In article ,
Huge wrote:
Generally speaking, these ludicrous warnings arise from court cases in
the USA where some moron put the batteries in a microwave (I expect some
other moron on the internet told him you could charge them up that way)
and then they went bang.

Warming up dry cells in an ordinary oven was a way of coaxing some more
life out of them. So I'd guess Chinese whispers resulted in a modern
version.

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Dave Plowman London SW
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