Battery Tractor, car, truck which ever

So I stopped at a place that just sells batteries today. Can buy reconditioned ones for $34 plus core or new blems for $44. Is a Blem battery as good as one that is normal?? O'Reilly's battery is $95 plus core and Orschenln's is $79.95 plus core

Learned a long time ago that you get what you pay for! Just sayin'

I can't answer your question,OLD,but local Interstate Dist.warehouse sell blems for that money.They are all most all just store returns from being on the shelf too long.

Exactly. Bought some blem tires several years ago. Couldn't see a thing wrong with them, but not a single one of them would hold air.

Supposed to be, just have cosmetic defects. Boss was going to go look at some at Interstate Batteries a few days ago. Don't know what he found.

would the married ones hold air?? Sorry just the smart axx mode I'm in

Reconditioned --Nah!
Blem do it, they should be fine. Have them charge and load test it prior to acceptance. Jim

As a farmer and truck n tractor dealer Ive bought a ton of blemished batteries with case or cosmetic defects over the years and they performed the same as unblemished. But obviously I cant guarantee you would get the same results. I agree with Jims comment, as long as you see them load tested and they pass I wouldnt be too afraid of a blemished unit.

Your money your choice

John T

Only thing wrong with them was the hole was outta round.

Old,

I'm not sure what a reconditioned battery is. The reason that there are cores on batteries, is that the lead is reused after being melted down at a smeltery, the impurities removed from the molten lead, and then the cleaned lead resold to battery manufacturers and used in new batteries. Battery lead is reused over and over again countless times. I'm not sure what a recondititioned battery is.

Back in the late '70's when economy was pretty much as bad as it is now, lots of folks were down on their financial luck and I worked at an auto parts store nights after school. I helped a few folks out by "reconditioning" a few batteries for them. Basically, folks brought in their bad batteries in as cores as they do now. Sometimes folks laid their last pennies on the counter and still couldn't muster up the cost of a replacement, but in a few cases we had weak batteries to send back where the plates hadn't shorted or broke, terminals still attached. Sometimes I was able to get rid of the old electrolyte, fill them with soapy water, put them on a charger and boil some of the crap off of the plates and case insides, rinse the insides, them fill with new electrolyte, charge, and test them. Then I'd charge the folks for the cost of the electrolyte, maybe 50 cents or a dollar, trade them for their core, send them on their way and not see them for months or maybe a year. When your wallet is near empty, kids are hungry, and bills are late being paid, the difference between going out a buck for a few months or years relief versus emptying your kids piggy bank and scrounging for pennies between the sofa cushions can mean the world of difference. Its important to boil the old electrolyte off of the plates and out of its pores as much as possible, because simply emptying a battery and refilling it with new electrolyte generally doesn't work, and will smoke a battery, literally.

Blemished battery jar? Can't see where that would be a problem so long as the plates and connectors didn't get disturbed, cracked, or broken during the process of whatever caused the blemish.

Good luck.

Mark

Blems are new batteries. Reconditioned are battery's taken as cores.
Then they cleaned,charged and load tested. I have family that used to work for Interstate battery.

Most didn't come back because the battery exploded and burnt them up. Replacing acid in a dead battery is just like playing Russian roulette with six bullets in the gun.
Walt

I don't believe they can actually recondition one now a day's. We used to have a place here that did but that was when the battery tops were tar. They would swap out the bad plates with other used ones but they never held up too well.

Yes, blems are good batteries.

Nah, the air escaped right through the tread just as fast as I could put it in. It wasn"t just one hole either. It was like the rubber was porous. Anywhere you applied soapy water, you would get air bubbles.

Old,
Don't know how many CCA's you are after. I'm a fan of the cheap excide batteries at Rural King. New excides on sale are around 45-50. Both my car and truck use the same battery, delco agm, 525 cca. New delco agm was around $165, which lasted around 7 years. I can buy about 4 excides for that price.

I have a battery minder 12248 charger/desulfater which I rotate between all the batteries in pole barn. Excides gives me good service.

I also have a battery conductivity tester, different from load tester, which I take to the store when I buy a new battery. You want to check the date stamped on battery too. You would be surprised how old some are and the difference in cca.

George

Walt,

Reread what I posted about getting the old electrolyte off of the plates, out of the pores, and out of the rest of the components inside of the jar and what would happen if one didn't. Perhaps I wasn't as clear as I could have or should have been. I never once sent out a smoldering jar, never ever.

Mark