second favorite pair of Carhartt pants have a hole, right there, at the bottom of where the right front pocket ends. That's where I braced the battery, briefly, as I readjusted my grip on it during an installation. Next time I washed the pants, new hole.


Thanks battery acid.

:eyebrow:

That's a pre Big One, WW II, item, before plastic became ubiquitous.
I don't know if they refilled that bottle of they bought it in bottes like that and swapped them out.

At Boeing we had Sulfuric and Hydrochloric in stainless steel drums that looked just like beer kegs. A tapper and an evil mind could really hurt. :shock:

Same story, different article of clothing, and different dispensing method.

I was wiggling the battery post/clamp on a buddy's 3/4 ton 4wd Chevy while he tried to start it. The tall truck fender meant the battery was about six inches from right eye when it decided to assplode. About a six inch piece of the battery left the vicinity in quite a hurry. I got a good dose of acid on my KY Wildcats cap. Holes everywhere.

Still have it. It's my Good Luck cap.

Thanks battery acid.

It spattered your cap from six inches away and you weren't blinded? ◔_◔

I'd change my whole damn wardrobe to the KY Wildcats line, summer, winter, spring, and fall.

Aaaaaand that's why it's my lucky hat.;)

We never found that corner of the battery. It may still be flyng.

I once caught a bit of spray in a situation like that. It caught me on the eyelid, on the fold of my partially opened eyelid, one flying drop making two wounds that showed the shape of the drop when my eyelid was partially closed, like the folding surprise picture on the inside of the back cover of a Mad magazine. It scabbed over nicely, and I'm ok.

But it was >< close....

The proper response is immediately flush with clean water for ten minutes.
Not curse a blue streak while wiping your eye with your sleeve. :haha:

Not my eye, but a fair mist on the face in general.

I cursed a blue streak and wiped my face with my shirt-tail. No wounds, still ugly as ever.:thumb:

You saved yourself some money..

What be this?

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It's a hi-fi speaker for someone with a whole lot better ears than mine.

A comb binder?

Clear gaming console, probably coin operated in a mall.

Yeah, looks like a mechanical precursor to pinball machines.

Some kinda keyboard missing an end and stood on it's back.