On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 10:46:31 +0100, Huge wrote:

On 2012-08-18, The Medway Handyman wrote:
Just been reading through the safety instructions for the Li Ion
batteries on my new Hitachi 18v SDS.

"Do not place in a tumble drier or a microwave oven".

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.


Of all the countless things people could - but should not - do with them,
they select two plain-as-a-pikestaff-to-anyone-with-a-brain examples to
specifically warn about? Within the confines of an ordinary kitchen -
place on a red hot cooker ring, put into waste disposal unit, try to burn
in an Aga (after all, di-lithium is carbon...).

Agreed about why, but the ludicrous (and foreseeable) consequence is that
people to not take heed of any important, sensible warnings about anything.

--
Rod