LIFE HACK!!! HOW TO RECYCLE LEAD OUT OF BATTERIES!!!

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LIFE HACK!!! HOW TO RECYCLE LEAD OUT OF BATTERIES!!!

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@mysterybuyer3738 2 жыл бұрын

Back in the day my dad would get drunk and just cut car batteries open with an axe and we had lead to make fishing sinkers out of for days. All we needed were those grid plates and the terminal parts. The rest of it we just raked up and probably threw on the burn pile.

@pixelpatter01 4 жыл бұрын

Congrats on turning your house into a hazmat toxic waste site. Most of the lead in those batteries is in the form of lead sulfate, the black stuff on those plates. A small amount was lead metal, of which you might have recovered about half. You needed to cover the whole mess of the plates with charcoal to prevent the lead from converting to the lead oxide, that was the stuff you kept scraping from the top of the molten lead. You also needed to convert the lead sulfate in the plates to lead oxide by roasting. When roasting you get lots of sulfur dioxide released which is the stuff making you cough (not shown ) and making the neighbors wonder what the hell you were doing. After the roasting is done you should have converted the PbSO4 to PbO, lead oxide the stuff you were scraping off onto the yard. That should have been heated with charcoal and flux to get lead metal. One last thing, all that wasted dross and stuff from the batteries is still toxic, even if you've forgotten about it.

@mysterybuyer3738 2 жыл бұрын

Ok Karen. lol

@jaxv94 2 жыл бұрын

@@mysterybuyer3738 don’t know why you think they’re a Karen. this is actually helpful information.

@mysterybuyer3738 2 жыл бұрын

@@jaxv94 Ummm because they are afraid of lead. Everyone is afraid of lead. I melted down batteries with my dad all the time and handled lead slugs all day with my bare hands. The gov obviously wants everyone to be afraid of it because it has to do with the second amendment.

@jaxv94 2 жыл бұрын

@@mysterybuyer3738 lmao 🤣

@dumpsterfire6351 10 ай бұрын

@@mysterybuyer3738moron

@pingoleonfernandez7638 6 ай бұрын

Awesome. Thank you.😊

@homevalueglass3809 7 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool, thanks for the tips. If you could get some old car batteries, now you're talking. Nice to know just in case you need to scrounge on the future or some lead to make slugs.

@fatheroffixing5328 7 жыл бұрын

Definitely... thank you, i'm glad you liked the video!!!

@scowler92 4 жыл бұрын

Airgun slugs, being hollow, are the most efficent way to use lead as ammunition.

@user-gn8jm8dt4e 8 ай бұрын

How much percentage of lead?

@haidtrex8678 6 жыл бұрын

i got more lead with only 2 batterys,same size,but i did clean each segment,and only used the shiny ones ,the rusty looking ones are separate and didnt even melt it,as for cleaning the lead i used some flux and trashed the dross

@tylerkrug7719 4 жыл бұрын

That's the way to do it, you know what's up

@bryannoyce 6 жыл бұрын

if you try this again, you might consider putting a layer of charcoal dust over the melt. This protects the lead from oxygen and may even reduce some of the lead oxide to metallic lead.

@fatheroffixing5328 6 жыл бұрын

thanks for the tip....i will try that next time although i should say that there was a significant amount of charcoal in there considering the furnace runs on it!

@bryannoyce 6 жыл бұрын

if the lead was completely covered in CO2 and CO then, mission accomplished. If air was flashing over the melt then charcoal would help. I have a battery around here, somewhere, that I want to melt. I will post the link if I do.

@wesleybullock814 3 жыл бұрын

Lol... Use cast iron muffin pans.... Much better quality ingots

@lomgshorts3 2 жыл бұрын

You can cast a lot of lead objects out of a dead battery - if done outside with proper PPE protection. I cast lead sinkers and such out of the lead I recover.

@garfield12344 Жыл бұрын

Battery Lead (Pb) is alloyed with 10-15% Sb ( antimony) there so not pure! Also is allot of PbO2 ( dioxide of lead 4+) especially when battery is EoL, it must be reduced on fire with charcoal.... Also Antimony is more poisonous acts like arsenic... Fumes ( oxides 3+ and 5+ especially) and salts...

@dakdoukroula3471 7 жыл бұрын

Great videos!

@fatheroffixing5328 7 жыл бұрын

thank you!!! im glad you liked them ...a lot more to come when the semester is over lol

@kenjett2434 7 жыл бұрын

I'm just curious as to why you didn't keep and purify the sulfuric acid it has a lot of valuable uses.

@fatheroffixing5328 7 жыл бұрын

these batteries have been sitting around for ever and they where almost dry so there was barley any to keep.

@kenjett2434 7 жыл бұрын

Father Of Fixing that makes sense yet that also means what was left would have been pretty strong as most of the water was already evaporated even in small amounts if hi concentrate very useful.

@fatheroffixing5328 7 жыл бұрын

True, that is why i neutralized the few drops left, but i was to ever need sulfuric acid for future purposes i do have a lot more batteries laying around :)

@thereynolds2725 4 жыл бұрын

Dead batteries don't have sulfuric acid in them. The chemical reactions convert it into water and the plates become sulfated.

@kenjett2434 4 жыл бұрын

@@thereynolds2725 not entirely true the sulfuric acid is merely a catylist the reaction is the ion exchange between the internal plates. This creates the heat that evaporates the water. Pure sulfuric acid doesn't evaporate till temperatures over 800 Fahrenheit. This is why water has to be added not acid when servicing a battery.

@mahin-os7tl 3 жыл бұрын

Wow😍

@alanmcdonald4423 4 жыл бұрын

Did you say right at the beginning "They are 12volts of an amp each"?

@fatheroffixing5328 5 ай бұрын

They are 12 volt batteries… but not an amp each … they come different amperages depending on the size … if i remeber correctly these are 8 amps each

@tylerkrug7719 4 жыл бұрын

Dam dude, you only ended up with Two lead muffins after all those batteries. What a waste of time and energy taking those type of battery apart. Should've further refined it before you melted it, get as much clean lead to start with. You had a crucible full of just trash

@andrewgray9663 2 жыл бұрын

Not really qualified to make judgement but would a minimal surgical mask offer much protection here? Perhaps someone who knows more about this could advise. I would also have thought more in the way of protection for the face and hands would be a good idea.

@RRaucina 4 жыл бұрын

Since most of the lead is in oxide form, best to take it to a real recycler that will get 99% of the lead out. Melt bullets and weights if you want to play

@t.dig.2040 3 жыл бұрын

I am in full agreement with you. Though, I bet his set up can get hot enough to reduce the oxides with charcoal.

@59jm24 6 жыл бұрын

The majority of the lead in these batteries, the active material, is lead oxide, not metallic lead. The spent acid even if neutralized has a high lead content. You need to address the disposal of your unused residue.Your process is one that you would find in a third or fourth world country.

@mysterybuyer3738 2 жыл бұрын

It doesn't matter. lol.

@massimilianoilardi3571 2 жыл бұрын

Ciao che metallo è e cosa recuperi

@railgap 5 ай бұрын

Last I checked, lead wasn't yellow.

@fatheroffixing5328 5 ай бұрын

Hey … thats the light effect in my living room 🙏

@piktor6494 6 жыл бұрын

nothing can be 100% safe..

@steveespinoza200 3 жыл бұрын

The batterys are probably worth more then the lead

@murphytoadster9864 3 жыл бұрын

Haha sounds like ww2 machine guns

@mariapena818 3 жыл бұрын

I have spent months studying battery reconditioning and found an awesome website at Magic Mender Wizard (google it if you are interested)

@Avalanche2 5 жыл бұрын

Why would anyone want to reclaim lead? What are you going to use it for?

@jamesjohnson9668 5 жыл бұрын

To have it for making fish sinkers and bullets

@scowler92 4 жыл бұрын

Radiation shielding.

@mythics791 6 жыл бұрын

lot of work for a little lead

@fatheroffixing5328 6 жыл бұрын

lol yeah that's true ...i was supposed to get more led but these batteries were in really bad shape! hey its free led i guess.. plus it was a lot of fun!!

@JustinLodes 6 жыл бұрын

It's much easier to get lead from car tire weights. If you walk down any main street or road they can be found in the gutter where the street meets the curb/sidewalk. I always find them there and they add up quick

@fatheroffixing5328 6 жыл бұрын

that's a great a idea as well, i just happened to get these old batteries so i had to process them. thanks for the tip though :)

@jimbasler1054 6 жыл бұрын

You pretty well screwed the pooch,on this one....... :-)

@aresident7745 2 жыл бұрын

is this in your basement? if so.. yikes

@paulcommodore4151 6 жыл бұрын

you speak too softly

@heinzhubbuch5167 6 жыл бұрын

WOW... You got a lot of time on your hands ? the time alone you spent doing this was not worth the $2 led value!

@fatheroffixing5328 6 жыл бұрын

lol yeah i do actually...no i'm kidding i'm a civil engineer student but i do this for fun on my free time...i was supposed to get more led but these batteries were in really bad shape! hey its free led i guess.. plus it was a lot of fun!!

@jasona.126 4 жыл бұрын

You don't think he did this for the value of the lead, right? If a guy goes fishing for 30 minutes you don't say "Wow, you got a lot of time on your hands? 30 minutes for a small fish minus the cost of your tackle and time?" That's what an asshole would do.