Argyll Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 I was undoing the battery clamp when I accidentally dropped the spanner and it made contact between the clamp and the positive terminal. A few sparks flew but after 3-4 seconds I managed to prise it off. Everything seems okay and the car starts fine. Is there anything else I should be checking? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Should be ok, but if you are worried, you could always check all the fuses to be sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H5 Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Just check that it hasn't caused anything to melt around the terminal and go through the various electric switches to check everything is still working. Worst case a fuse might have gone but it's generally fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beavis Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Should be fine, after all you have shorted to earth so therefore not gone through anything else. Be more careful next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbon Coops Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 it will be fine mate done this on a starter once as i forgot to take the neg battery terminal off, trapped my hand burnt it fooked the end of the spanner and the battery caught fire oops lol it was back when i was an apprentice coops Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Husky Posted July 24, 2009 Share Posted July 24, 2009 Ouch, batteries can and will melt spanners if shorted across thier terminals. and shorting a battery can reduce its life and permanently damage it. glad it turned out ok I managed to make an excuse to short a battery as a "control" in a test we were doing. not a pretty sight, alot of poisonous gas was in the air that day and it melted our relay box to nothing (the other thing we were shorting was a 2000Farad capacitor block ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argyll Posted July 25, 2009 Author Share Posted July 25, 2009 Phew thanks for the replies guy's I was quite worried. Where exactly is the fuse box again? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletMagnet Posted July 25, 2009 Share Posted July 25, 2009 There is one right in front of the battery itself...as for the other one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pathfinder123 Posted July 27, 2009 Share Posted July 27, 2009 Accidental shorting from the positive battery terminal is the reason you should ALWAYS remove the negative (chassis) connection FIRST, and replace it LAST when working on a car electrics. Doing it that way avoids a spanner on the positive battery terminal shorting to chassis. S. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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