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Don

10-08-2003 06:07:17




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What is the best way to salvage the lead from old batteries? Thanks,Don.




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Mike M

10-10-2003 07:59:19




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 Re: Batteries in reply to Don, 10-08-2003 06:07:17  
Tire shops have lots of wheel weights to get rid of.



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RayP(MI)

10-09-2003 16:21:31




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 Re: Batteries in reply to Don, 10-08-2003 06:07:17  
The advice below to turn it in to a salvage yard, and buy the lead is very good. I tried to salvage a bunch batteries a while ago. Not very profitable. The only salvagable lead is in the terminals, and connectors across the top of the plates. You can spend a lot of time and energy trying to salvage that. Then there's disposal of the fluids and stuff you couldn't salvage. Not good stuff to be dumping. Let the recyclers do the nasty stuff!

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Frank M.

10-09-2003 17:11:15




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 Re: Re: Batteries in reply to RayP(MI), 10-09-2003 16:21:31  
I tried to salvage the lead out of a battery once, too. I wanted to melt it down to mold bullets, or fishing weights. I thought the plates would melt if I just rolled them up and stuck them in the melting pot. It didn't work like I planned. I wound up with a pot full of grey powder, glowing around the edges, where it contacted the sides of the pot, and giving off the most GODAWFUL fumes I've ever seen. The terminals and cell connectors melted just fine, but I had to skim a lot of trash off the top.
Bottom line is, It's not worth the trouble, and I had a heck of a time getting the lead pot cleaned afterward.
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Frank M.

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very carefully

10-08-2003 13:01:18




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 Re: Batteries in reply to Don, 10-08-2003 06:07:17  
Trash barrel full of burn stuff. Place battrey on top. Stay a long ways away, and miles away from neibours and EPA. Mucho fines for things like that. The fumes are BAD! Sell the battery and buy lead.



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John Ne.

10-08-2003 13:13:09




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 Re: Re: Batteries in reply to very carefully, 10-08-2003 13:01:18  
Take her down to the recycling place and get your dollar or so out of the old ones, lead fumes are poisonous, and at the least can ruin a persons lungs in just a few whiffs. Not something to do on the cheap. john in ne.



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Don

10-08-2003 15:10:12




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 Re: Re: Re: Batteries in reply to John Ne., 10-08-2003 13:13:09  
Sounds like good advice fellows.Thanks for your input. Don.



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