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Recycling a lead acid battery for sinkers, is it worth it ???


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The lead in old batteries will mostly be in the form of lead oxide and lead suphates. I think you have to melt it with carbon or something to extract pure lead suitable for sinkers. Plus there is lead sludge in there as well. There is a bit on the web about this and the consensus is it is not worth it.

 

A mate of mine, much older than me, and a very long time ago, found a very large number (100+) of old batteries that had been dumped illegally out in the scrub. They thought of sinkers or selling the lead so they poured all the acid out and restacked the batteries. Then, as you do in the '70s, they set fire to the pile to burn the plastic off. He reckoned there was bugger all lead left that had melted into pools. 

 

Bi carb of soda will neutralise the acid.

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My mate reckons it will be easier to sell the batteries for scrap then buy the lead!! 

 

Just gut feel, but would agree with that. Recon you'd probably be better off taking up jogging and picking wheel balancing weights off the road!

 

For safe environmental disposal of the acid, it needs to be neutralised. Suggest pouring your acid into a plastic bucket containing lime

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Recycling yards pay $5 battery

Lead pay $1.25kg buy $3kg? & you can pick out the nice clean pieces like dive weights

so much easier to make sinkers with

I have the 3× star surf mould, 4× tear drop swivel my favorite & 4× snapper & all the gear

I could be talked into a sinker day as I nearly out of whiting size

I spent last sat afternoon munching chest freezer of burly logs

I wanted to do sinkers but not in the rain

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Thanks for the tips and opinions. I don't really care about the savings, I just like a bit of DIY and try not to waste possible resources. I still have some lead laying around but thought I might as well add to my collection but only if it was easy enough to do and was worth the effort.

 

I have a recycle yard close to me so I might just take them down there.

 

Cheers guys :)

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