That first pic all i thought was ‘mmmmm danger pillow’ from all the gas inside.
Covered my desk, put lino flooring down in the garage and then moved my desk so its under the power socket and im not running a extenstion cord along the damned wall.
Not my best desk wrapping job but hey, its going to get paint on it eventualy and then be removed so it just has to work, not look fancy. Also cleaned that wall after this pic was taken. Now to go get all the stuff to go on it and drag my 3d printers out there.
Looking good mate! 
Nothing more important than a well thought out workspace. 
Regarding that fluffy Pillow… I originally just threw it on top of the back tyre on the Patrol to catch some breeze and cool down.
But then I thought, “hmmm, thermal runaway and burn down the Patrol in the process?”
So yeeted it out onto the claypan to do whatever evil it wanted without burning down anything else around it!
The just looks scary, doc… it exactly one RCH from going up by the looks of it. 
Still got some work before its set up right, need more storage space for both 3d printers and all the extra stuff i will no doubt gather over time but thats another days problem for me.
Yeah i knew that battery was cooked the second i saw the side being split like that do yourself a favour, take something that you know can hit it and puncture at distance and stand well upwind and let it burn itself out, done that before with removable phone batterys that have gone puffy and its a hell of alot more calming then having basicly a time delayed bomb sitting around. Bonus points if you can get it to start a bonfire.
Thanks for the handy tips… but I’m just gonna take it out to my mates property and set it up for some “target practice” wink wink 
which it will definitely be getting “punctured” 
Get yaself some cheap lightweight shelving units from the Sausage Factory, my mate has 2 or 3 set up in his spare room and are very handy for storing all the odds and sods in the house
Will def look into some shelving units, maybe get a sausage aswelll.
Pulled the printers out of my room and did a test run, liking the set up so far but will need adjusting with time im sure since im getting a small spray booth soon so that will need somewhere to sit and will for sure be getting a new chair, not a fan of the dining room one.
Also getting a new build plate so i can awaken both 3d printers for full runs of stuff.
Gonna take a while moving shit around until you eventually find a layout that works for you, but once you get there, will be a comfortable and productive work space.
A whiteboard or pin-up board on the walls are also excellent addition, enabling you to be able to scribble down different notes and reminders for different jobs, and make it more inviting than staring at bare walls! 
Don’t be a wuss, when your mate thinks it funny to chuck a couple strips of ramset charges in the bonfire. Hold my beer…
Been there done that mate, way back when I was a teenager!
But Ramset wasn’t invented back then, they were the .22 blanks from the Cattle Stun Guns from the Abattoir I was working at that some smartarse always emptied his pockets with into the campfire!
Yea it’s the tradies I know that use them on the nail guns for building houses. Buy them at Bunnings 22 short case crimped end. That’s how ya build a house these days. Wood frame anyway.
Lipos are not the big scary thing some make out to be, disposing of them has come up a lot here in the past. Not a good idea to put them anywhere the hydrogen gas build up can’t escape to. Bit different where I am and why I open fire incinerate any that a faulty. They do not explode because they are not contsrained as the hydrogen gas will build up quite high pressure and be hot why they start fires as they are in a case in flammable plastic to start with let alone what they are usually laying on/in. Just the hydrogen gas build up and at high temp was like a hot knife through the main body of my 1.4M Spitfire RC plane, no actual fire, well it tried too but it hit mother earth sand pretty damn good and pos/neg touched each other which does it.
But hot open fire ffs I don’t recommend doing it at all, definately don’t throw em in your combustable inside fire as you will have an explosion. No where for the hydrogen gas to escape in a very short time.
You can’t do it in a city CBD as most states have backyard open fire restrictions or it’s flat out year round banned.
I have leeway in that regard as I don’t have basic services provided that dispose of things and as long as it is not a fire ban which I have to check my states CFS site for and meets the ambient temp and wind speed criteria I am ok to do out door burns, even in fire ban season I apply for my districts burning permit as I don’t think they’d fit a 1000 acre paddock in a garbo truck anyway But that is part of business. Have to wait until 9am for the council to wake up, ring them so it is logged with all local CFS crews. Even then the message sometimes doesen’t get through and you get calls and stuff from 150klms away they’ve spotted the puff of smoke
Same as you mate, in the country, anything goes and is dependant on that long forgotten thing called “common sense”.
Many different ways of dealing with many different things that would NEVER fly in the big smoke regions… But that’s the beauty of living in the country, PLENTY of leeway to do all sorts of shite without anyone within cooee raising an eyebrow unless you manage to do something REALLY wrong! 
As for the battery comments… yeah, open bodied Aircraft, Drones,Cars, buggies etc are fully vented for battery gasses.
But RC Boats are 100% watertight/Air sealed, making them a perfect hand grenade for venting LiPo batteries with a Electric Motor spark source built right inside them! 
Well said, was trying to explain so get the bigger picture. For city if you have a decent balance charger I have read you can decharge them to zero, then put in a metal bucket of sand. Check with multimeter outdoors for a day or two and if they decide to fizz up they are buried in sand but in your backyard in open air.
I actually have not tried these methods as I have a 2 minute solution that works for where I am and the enviroment I live in.
Some good advice on this sort of thing in Batteries and Chargers - RC Groups from different people across the world and some wild experiences there. Just check and double check.
A fire will only start due to conditions and enviroment. Understand that first, then you can proceed safely.
Says I while his house is burning down… good need a new one anyway joke
Yep exactly, watertight usually air tight too. And the modern boats run some of the very highest amperage it’s impressive. You aint mucking around with a 1200mah airsoft 2S battery. They got some Mumbo!
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Absolutely right mate, 5500mAh, 14.8V 100C is a pretty high powered bomb!
My well researched tried and true method for “disarming” LiPo batteries is to basically throw them in a bucket of Salt Water in the back yard and just leave them there for a week or so.
It’s a global method of dealing with EV Vehicle fires and incidents where salt water has the conductive properties to fully deplete the internal chemicals of these batteries.
Puncturing the individual cells will result in fireworks and pretty explosions, but can’t fully neutralize the chemical compounds within.
So yeah, a bit of target practice to puncture all the cells, but will still get a good salt water soaking afterwards before finding a “recycling” centre to drop the little bomb off to!
Oh yep that was the other one I couldn’t recall I read somewhere. Again haven’t personally tried.
Hmmph funny you mention recycling, what a farse that is. It’s called landfill. They are still making Australia’s first lithium recycling centre near Melbourne that is due to go online around 2028 at the earliest. Currently they get packed in shipping containers and get sent OS to countries that agree to take them, for recycling that have the facilities to do so. Or they hit a landfill near you is the latest option. I haven’t looked recently as it’s as always nothing to see here.
Yea ABC but this is what happens. ‘Urgent’ need to establish lithium-ion recycling facilities as toxic waste soars - ABC News
My state used to send our recycling by truck ,all of the state, interstate to the recycling center. Recycling centre caught fire and burnt down. They refused taking anymore. China also refused taking our recyclables to process. So we just made a big hill near Port Adelaide out of everyones rubbish. It’s massive drive on the highway through it big 100ft high walls
Absolute joke.
Yup, certainly well aware of the whole bullshit greeny “recycling” farce!
There’s NO such thing, and all of this “renewable green waste” either goes into landfill at a massive threat to our environment and water aquifers…or gets moved around until some unfortunate company takes it and stockpiles it somewhere in the hope that “one day” we will invent the technology to ACTUALLY be able to recycle it! 
In the meantime, all of these storage facilities are catching fire and exploding all around the world on an almost monthly basis, spewing highly toxic smoke and gasses into the atmosphere and lifelong highly toxic chemicals into the soils and waterways. 
Green my arse!
Have a friend who has tried to get a closed loop recycling ad power generation system that is operating in Philippines into Australia. It takes used tyres and uses heat and vacuum to separate components that are then turned into viable base products. Doesn’t consume outside power once the process is started and all emissions are recycled in the process
They have the land and capital to complete the project. Biggest obstacle has been local councils. One council wanted the developer to fly six Council employees to Manila for a week to inspect the facility - even though real time video feed was available as well as video from US and German engineers. Another Council wouldn’t let them keep enough used tyres on site to keep the process running continually, which would incur unsustainable start up costs and additional capital costs for off-site storage. Another condition was placed in the size and type of trucks bringing in tyres that required additional transfers that drove up costs. And there were a bunch more.
The investors got peed off at all the red tape and went elsewhere and the land was sold for a distribution centre - which has more truck movements daily with larger and heavier vehicles.
That is why Australia will never succeed while we have a belligerent and uninformed entrenched bureaucracy
That’s great information mate, and is a recycling process that I have heard works wonders in some areas of Europe.
Exactly like the Lithium Mining crash in Australia, too much Red Tape and Government Departments adding additional Costs and Restrictions on the smallest details, driving the whole industry into Asian filthy mining practices instead.
I’m all for REAL safety and protection of the environment, but there’s so much other bullshit that our Government interferes with, it just drives industry away from this Country.