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    Battery lead query

    Hey folks,

    I came across a good source of lead...from batteries.

    It is a large company, the supply is unlimited, and it is free.

    I have provided a few samples below of what I can get.

    I have read that battery lead is not good to use. Can someone tell me why?

    And also, are all of the lead parts un-usable, or are just the "posts ("+" and "-") un-usable?

    Thanks.

    In Christ: Raymond


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    OK on the clamps and posts.
    The lead alloy used for plates may contain cadmium, which is highly toxic, and probably other nasty stuff.
    Here's one reference from the classics and stickies section: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=40769
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    Sooooooooooooo...

    everything in the above picture is OK to smelt and cast.

    But the "lead innerds" of the battery are "No-Go," right?

    Did I understand that correctly?

    In Christ: Raymond

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    right on get all of them you can the price is right. There is no problem at all melting the posts and clamps. The plates are where you get into trouble.
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    Yes you got it! NEVER MELT THE INSIDE!! We dont want to loose any of our fine members!!!
    The pic shows battery accesseries not batterys. clamps and adaptors are fine but the inside has cadmium=RIP!
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    Quote Originally Posted by RaymondMillbrae View Post
    Hey folks,

    I came across a good source of lead...from batteries.

    It is a large company, the supply is unlimited, and it is free.

    I have provided a few samples below of what I can get.

    I have read that battery lead is not good to use. Can someone tell me why?

    And also, are all of the lead parts un-usable, or are just the "posts ("+" and "-") un-usable?

    Thanks.

    In Christ: Raymond

    If you get those for free, I"ll pay you .10 cents a Lb and shipping for as much as you can get me.

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    If those are used terminals , be advised that the corrosion products attract moisture and can be pheonominal when dropped into melted lead. Always start out with no liquid in the smelter and the moisture will flash off before anything melts.
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    Thanks for the heads-up on the possible moisture.

    As for selling...umm...nope.

    This is freaky Kalifornia, and I am stockpiling all I can get my hands on at the moment.

    .10 cents a pound, huh?

    Shoot...if you give me $20.00 I have an orange bridge I can sell you for really cheap.

    In Christ: Raymond


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    Ray, those will be almost pure lead. Quite soft, perfect for RB's for C&B pistols. Otherwise go to Rotometals logo on top of the page and order yourself some hardening components. Congratulations on the supply. Get as much as you can.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RaymondMillbrae View Post
    Thanks for the heads-up on the possible moisture.

    As for selling...umm...nope.

    This is freaky Kalifornia, and I am stockpiling all I can get my hands on at the moment.

    .10 cents a pound, huh?

    Shoot...if you give me $20.00 I have an orange bridge I can sell you for really cheap.

    In Christ: Raymond

    Hey, you were the one that made the mistake of saying they were free to you

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    I bought that bridge last year. Still waiting on the UPS truck though.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Wayne Smith View Post
    Ray, those will be almost pure lead. Quite soft, perfect for RB's for C&B pistols. Otherwise go to Rotometals logo on top of the page and order yourself some hardening components. Congratulations on the supply. Get as much as you can.
    Some are pure lead (or pretty close) and some can be fairly hard. I have 100 lbs of battery terminal connectors that are around 10 BHN. Occasionally I'll come across the really soft ones, but have been getting mostly harder stuff lately.
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    Whats the name of the company?

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    Quote Originally Posted by bongo817 View Post
    Whats the name of the company?
    Ha ha ha.

    Like a newspaper reporter, I refuse to reveal my sources!

    A: If I revel my source, there is a good chance that others will swarm on this unrealized source.
    B: This is freaky Kalifornia - and you may be a "bad guy" looking to slam a company for not complying to the new CA laws.

    Either way...mumms the word.

    In Christ: Raymond

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    Quote Originally Posted by Suo Gan View Post
    When someone would ask my uncle where he shot a buck, or caught a bruiser bass he would either say "I shot that one right in the side," or "Right here!" and make his finger like a hook and shove it in his cheek. You done good Raymond.
    Ha ha. That was pretty funny.

    I didn't mean to sound rude or anything...just "schooling folks" on how to answer others who ask the same questions.

    I didn't know who the poster was, and I did not want to take the chance of "arming the enemy"...in case he was a bad guy.

    Lead sources are getting pretty hard to come by in this here neck of the woods, so we need to be pretty secretive with our sources in this part of the world.

    Don't know what the future holds for shooters...so we need to "hog" all the lead we can find, to sustain us for at least a few years of shooting if ammo bans should ever take place. (Someone once said that ammo will be as precious as gold if the world economy should ever collapse).

    In Christ: Raymond

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    Hey folks,

    quick question.

    I just scored another 200 pounds of lead. (Yesssssssssssssssssssssss)! And I received about 35 - 40 pounds of this stuff.

    I am no "geeneeus"...but the holes sure look like battery posts.

    So to be on the safe side, I thought I'd post it here to get a definitive response. Maybe someone here may have worked with this stuff before and will know FOR SURE.

    Is this battery lead?

    If it is...BUMMER.

    But on the bright side, I scored around 150-pounds of good lead.

    In Christ: Raymond






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    Really?

    No one?

    There's no one here that can verify if this is lead from a battery?

    Everyone talks about the "bad" of using battery lead, but no one has actually seen battery lead before?

    Wow! :0

    In Christ: Raymond

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    I do not think it is from a battery at all, the plates are too thick. The other thing is the raduis in the corner. The drilled hole was to allow it to be cut with a saw. The Lead is probably from some sort of Vibration dampening mount on a Machine, possibly a big generator. The lead should be fine to use.

    Given the orange Iron Oxide stains around the holes, they are definitely from a battery. Go ahead and melt them as Pure.
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    Battery post are ok for smelting. It's the plates inside the battery that has the nasty stuff. You should use good ventilation when smelting, though, as it may have acid and other nasties on it. For that matter, be careful if alloying with acid core solder.

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    Those are not battery plates. They look like shims for leveling large pieces of equipment. Like on a ship or any place that could have a corrosive enviorment.

    Battery plates are layed out in a grid, at least the ones we need to be conserned about. Do a search for "battery plate construction".

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