Weighing In Old Leisure Batteries

[mrsmelly]

And..they carefully disposed of the dangerous acid before removing the lead plates...?

 

Naaaah i doubt it. They probably took them to the scrappy and got a hundred or so quid and good look to em, I couldnt be arsed.

 

Tim

[ditchcrawler]

Probably better sticking them on ebay.

You often see them there.

[Tesla]

I recently got £120 for four socking great 220 gel batteries and one starter battery, so well worth finding a decent scrap merchant

[onionbargee]

30p a kilo for batteries, and no more cash payments from now on.

[DHutch]

I think we got about £12 each for our last lot, still, £50 is a lot better than a whole i the head.

[Tobymonster]

I took two starter and three 100Ah leisure batteries to my local metal recycler last Friday. Got £39 for a total weight of 98kg. Works out to be £400 per tonne or thereabouts.

[alan_fincher]

Hi Alan,

 

I take my old batteries up to Evan's scrap yard, Chesham Rd Wigginton.

 

Not sure of prices at the moment.

 

Mike

Sounded promising, but they have just told me that on small quantities they only pay the "iron price" of £110 per ton.

 

So not worth it, it seems, at least at that particular place!

[Grace and Favour]

Sounded promising, but they have just told me that on small quantities they only pay the "iron price" of £110 per ton.

 

So not worth it, it seems, at least at that particular place!

I suspect they cannot be bothered - but looking at the reports of all the other posters on this thread - taking yer batteries to a scrappy would appear to be the very best thing that one can do

[magnetman]

it is worth doing that,rather than leave them on deck...

 

i've twice had batteries 'lifted' they were nackered but worth a bit for scrap. it was another boater I know in one instance and probably both but neither was with my permission...

 

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[LEO]

Sounded promising, but they have just told me that on small quantities they only pay the "iron price" of £110 per ton.

 

So not worth it, it seems, at least at that particular place!

 

Tend to agree, but by the time fuel costs have been added in, is it worth travelling further?.

 

I don't like moving batteries about, you brush the case on your clothes and next thing said clothes develop holes, and the same applies to boot interiors.

 

I'm happy to get rid of them.

 

L.

[magnetman]

you must have big feet if you can get leisure batteries in your boots

[onionbargee]

Sounded promising, but they have just told me that on small quantities they only pay the "iron price" of £110 per ton.

 

So not worth it, it seems, at least at that particular place!

pure bolllards, go somewhere else.

 

One good thing about the high scrap metal prices is everything is getting recycled now, i'm even pulling batteries out of the towpath hedge, and everywhere is getting cleaned up of junk, even the cable cluttering up railway tracks !

 

sadly industrial bins and skips are all getting locked now, skip diving opportunities are drying up.

[magnetman]

there are batteries in the cut but it needs to be clear,and you need a good keb and the ability to be arsed

[GUMPY]

Alan if you cant be bothered Ill collect them from you next time I am in Berko FOC and add them to the others I have to take up to SR

[bizzard]

The scrappy I take batteries to pays a good rate and says they ship them to China to be used for whatever, probably melting the Lead down to make extra heavy Coolie-hats to help depress and suppress the population, or to make special poisonous cooking Woks to flog to their enemies.

[onionbargee]

the Chinese make spanners out of the lead to export to pound shops ?

[comfortably numb]

Sell them on E-bay, You make more money.

I doubt I'd make anything as they are so heavy the post would cost a fortune I think.

[nbfiresprite]

I doubt I'd make anything as they are so heavy the post would cost a fortune I think.

I made a average profit of three pounds and charged P&P on top. The less common ones sell for more.