Maybe they are glueing the batteries into the rigid unibody cases precisely to keep the batteries in line, and to give them no room to expand and to bulge.
I doubt that'll help - given the way the expanding LiIon gunk broke the metal battery casing open, I'd expect that to result in a broken laptop casing - or, worse, corrosive gunk getting squished laterally onto the logic board, wrecking that as well.
It seems this is all part of the same Sony manufacturing issue from a few years ago - a lot of people had these A1189 batteries doing exactly this, some being replaced by Apple, some not. I've ordered a replacement for now, quite cheaply; since the step in this problem beyond "bursting casing" is "bursting into flames", I think the dud will be going on a trip to the recycling bin soon.
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It seems this is all part of the same Sony manufacturing issue from a few years ago - a lot of people had these A1189 batteries doing exactly this, some being replaced by Apple, some not. I've ordered a replacement for now, quite cheaply; since the step in this problem beyond "bursting casing" is "bursting into flames", I think the dud will be going on a trip to the recycling bin soon.
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