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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4105 Location: South Cheshire

A scrap dealer called round yesterday offering 6 quid for any scrap lead acid starter batteries, is this a fair price?

Dave

Rootes75 · Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:50 am Post subject:

Current UK prices for batteries is around ?420-450 per tonne. So 42-45p a kilo.

How heavy is the battery?
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:55 pm Post subject:

I'm not sure, but I think I got more than that last time I weighed a couple of old batteries in. Of course the value of scrap fluctuates all the time, and batteries come in various different sizes, but if this guy is offering a flat six quid each then it's because he reckons on making a profit on them.

I recently had some scrap steel - I don't reckon it's worth my bothering with the small amounts of ferrous I ever have to dispose of - hanging around the back lane here for a week before I humped it round to the front street where it was more visible... Not long ago the scrap elves were along the lane all the time and it would have been gone by the end of the next day, I don't know what's happened!

Rootes75 · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:27 pm Post subject:

We do have a stash of old dead batteries down the yard, a couple larger lorry ones in there too. They will be weighed in when we need to raise some funds for the engine rebuild on our new Commer project.
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Rootes75 · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:43 pm Post subject:

We do have a stash of old dead batteries down the yard, a couple larger lorry ones in there too. They will be weighed in when we need to raise some funds for the engine rebuild on our new Commer project.
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Rusty · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 11:25 am Post subject:

I wish I could get you to send him around here! My little vintage club had a "battery drive" and collected about a ton of dead battery's, mostly off district farms and I think the total we got was about $300 (Ausy, about 150 quid)

Keith D · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 12:44 pm Post subject:

Rusty,

Is 'your little vintage club' the SW VCC based in Dardanup?

Keith
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Rusty · Posted: Sun Mar 31, 2024 1:00 pm Post subject:

No Keith, I "am" a member of the Donnybrook branch of the V.C.C. W.A. but my little vintage club I sometimes refer to is "The Quairading Vintage Club", based in the wheatbelt town of Quairading about 120 miles East of Perth. I am retired now, and moved down to Bunbury, but still keep in touch when I go up there.

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bjacko · Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:09 am Post subject: Batteries

If you think it is hard to get rid of lead acid batteries wait until these electric car batteries start failing! Also the batteries that people are adding to their roof solar panel systems.
Most people will probably dump the whole car at a wreckers and give them the problem, mainly because the cost of a new battery will be more than the car is worth.
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:04 am Post subject:

Lead acid batteries aren't hard to get rid of once you get round to it, and if you can't be bothered just leaving it outside will usually do the trick Wink

I'm sure I read that they're something like 98% recyclable and so they do have a value. The lithium ion batteries used in electric cars are known to be difficult to recycle and that's going to be a whole new problem in the future, it could end up being nearly as big a problem as nuclear waste!