![]() ![]() Then they printed me a reciept with a barcode at the bottom. to recycle for money, so there's a law requiring this form. There's been a big problem in the city with "copper miners" stealing metal wires, pipes, etc. They asked me for ID, my address, and had me sign a form promising that I was the lawful owner of the stuff I was selling them. Once inside the yard, they had us load our batteries on a cart, push the cart onto a scale. We waited in a line of other trucks for a while til one of those guys told us that since we just had batteries, we could drive right in. Stop at the scrapyard office and ask them what to do. I finally got around to taking the bad ones to the scrapyard and damn! Here's what the robo-cashier at the scrapyard gave me for my load of toxic waste! Batteries are worth real money now, if you can find the right buyer. ![]() Those projects included as welders and power storage for solar welders, running power tools off them, as well as starting and lighting batteries for the Free Yacht. Some came back to life from various magic treatments and I gave them to friends or built them into projects. I told them I was experimenting with desulfating batteries and they told me to help myself to their scrap pile. A few came from my marina next to the dumpster, more came from the marine supply store. I picked up a few behind service stations and parts stores where people had orphaned them. I tell my friends to give me their toxic waste and I'll get rid of it, cuz I hate seeing buckets of drain oil left out in the rain. So if the car isn't driven regularly it'll over-discharge and sulfate the battery. New cars wreck batteries pretty quick because the car computer never really turns off. A lot of readers are asking: Where do I get dead batteries?: I mostly got these batteries by seeing and asking for them. I just got paid $300 cash for two dozen old lead-acid batteries. ![]()
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