As a WATCHMAKER I very often get requests for battery changes. For some time now I have REFUSED to either have the lithium batteries in my shop, nor will I install them.
We save old, dead batteries of the little button style, and can hve them reccled by people in that business, but the lithium.
I have a jewelry store customer who was in the habit of putting silver oxide batteries in an empty pickle jar. They began to put old LITHIUMs into another jar, loose and contacting each other. One afternoon the lithium jar suddenly heated and blew up. Thankfully, damage but no injuries. They are a clear danger.
“They began to put old LITHIUMs into another jar, loose and contacting each other. One afternoon the lithium jar suddenly heated and blew up. Thankfully, damage but no injuries. They are a clear danger.”