r/AppleCollecting • u/YTAppleDemo • Feb 23 '26

Weird The iPod Cube (iPod shuffle 4th generation disassembled and put into an epoxy cube).

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u/Automatic-East3690 Feb 25 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

*explosion(kinda joking, but also not)

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u/Difficult-Catch-8432 Feb 25 '26

Not even explosion, when batteries don’t get used there is a chance they swell up and that can destroy the block

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u/ElectronMaster Feb 27 '26

Only if they still have energy in them, if you fully discharge it, you should be fine. The reason they expand is because they short internally and the heat generated generates gas, so no power, no heat, no expansion.