Can one use lead from batteries to make lead balls

Reminds me of a couple of jokes:

A neutron walks into a bar and asks the bartender, "Hey, how much is a beer?"

The bartender replies, "For you, no charge."

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A depressed atom is walking down the street, and a concerned lady stops him and asks what the matter is. He says, "I think I've lost an electron somewhere."

She replies, "Are you sure?"

He replies, "I'm positive."

:youcrazy: :sorry: ff:

 

I just think Ole Zonie's a couple Volts short of a 12 Volt battery. Just keep it clean guys. We don't want no sexy AC/DC talk. Bill

 

My wife was going to take them to the recycling center

hey, Rootnuke, How'd you get so lucky to get a good woman that'll take stuff to the center. My wife makes me do it. :haha: Bill

 

[musketman]

Actually I think some of the electrical responces to the question are reVOLTING! A man can't sit in his OHM and ask WATT you guys know. It sounds like a severe case of BATTERY to me. He's probably wondering WIRE you guys all against him?

It's a good thing Redhairedwench didn't answer him. He would probably find it hard to RESISTER!!!!! :: :: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :crackup: :: ::

Hey Zonie,

I got a kick out of your POST. WIRE you doing this to us. Do I detect some ACID in your commentary? Or is it that you are well GROUNDED and just like to send a little JOLT our way once in a while. I must say you do have the CAPACITOR to do that. You could be CHARGED with being a punny guy. No need to be NEGATIVE about this, and there is no reason to resort to BATTERY. OHM I God - I'm getting worse than Zonie. :yakyak:

Don't make me post the forum cheerleaders picture again... :crackup:

 

[AeroE]

I learned how lead-acid batteries are manufactured this year while helping one of our vendors develop a ruggedized version that would live through our applications noise and vibration environment.

All of the individual plates are manufacured by casting a pure lead grid (which includes a tab that is soldered to the buss bar that connects the indivual plates, then squeegeeing a lead oxide slurry into the grid. The positive plates and negative plates get different lead oxide mixtures, and I don't know the difference because I didn't ask. These individual plates are extremely fragile, approximately 0.060 inches thick; the thickness varies depending whether the plate is positive or negative, and according to the end application.

Anyway, I think you could reclaim this lead by cutting the cells open so each plate could be extracted. Half of the plates were enclosed in a polypropylene envelope that contained the fiberglass matt wrap. This wrap is soaked in acid since these were dry cell batteries and can be easily removed.

Once you have the plates, I would think melting them would drive off any residual acid (or they could be washed and neutralized first) and the alloying elements could eventually be spooned off as dross.

When I was touring the manufacturers plant, I commented that all I could see was thousands of pounds of bullets. There is tons of lead ingots everywhere in the casting room and receiving. I would have liked a bucket or two of the overflow splashed around the area where molding was conducted! It's also a filthy place to work, with the drab gray look of Orwell's 1984.

 

[rootnuke]

My wife was going to take them to the recycling center

hey, Rootnuke, How'd you get so lucky to get a good woman that'll take stuff to the center. My wife makes me do it. :haha: Bill

How'd you get so lucky to get a good woman that'll take stuff to the center.

I don't know. But my first guess is that life is so great, I'm so winderful and she is so happy to have me as her husband, she does it because she l-o-v-e-s me.
My second guess is that she knows that if she does not do it, it will never happen.

 

[BLAHMAN]

Reminds me of a couple of jokes:

A neutron walks into a bar and asks the bartender, "Hey, how much is a beer?"

The bartender replies, "For you, no charge."

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A duck waddles into a bar and sez: "Hey barkeep, gimme a shot and a beer and put it on my bill!"

That deserves the cheerleaders picture!

 

[riarcher]

Tried that, found the whole thing REVOLTING!
Just not worth the trouble.
Flashing, x-ray leading, piping, all better at yielding returns.
Last resort,, E-bay, cheap on "pure" lead. It's already cleaned and cast into 1 lb. ingots at less than $0.50/lb. if you wait your turn.

 

That deserves the cheerleaders picture

It's first grade cute/stupid, and maybe deserves the skank platypus hat award, but it ain't so bad it deserves the cheerleaders. It's gotta be BUTTUGLY BAD to deserve them. I mean warsh yer mouth out with Drano bad to get the Cheerleaders Award. That duck joke ain't even close, now Zonie's remarkable pun's, they might be close. :crackup: :crackup: Bill

 

[Zonie]

NOT THE CHEERLEADERS!! :shocking:
Talk about reVOLTING!! I'm affeered iffen Ah has ta see em again it might be TERMINAL! :shocking: :crackup:

 

[musketman]

NOT THE CHEERLEADERS!! :shocking:
Talk about reVOLTING!! I'm affeered iffen Ah has ta see em again it might be TERMINAL! :shocking: :crackup:

Don't make me inlarge them... :crackup:

I will if I have to...

 

[BLAHMAN]

That deserves the cheerleaders picture

It's first grade cute/stupid, and maybe deserves the skank platypus hat award, but it ain't so bad it deserves the cheerleaders. It's gotta be BUTTUGLY BAD to deserve them. I mean warsh yer mouth out with Drano bad to get the Cheerleaders Award. That duck joke ain't even close, now Zonie's remarkable pun's, they might be close. :crackup: :crackup: Bill

Does that mean I gotta work on my jokes? Shucks! Bad jokes you want.....ohhhhhhh goody! :haha:

 

[Zonie]

Wal, iffen tha croud don't laff tha mite thro sum o em rottin egs! Than tha yoke's on you!!

Ah uster be kalled the Pungent. :: ::