scrap yard scales - Page 2

Originally Posted by 1956

refilling battery posts with water would most likely hurt your reputation
not to mention
the acid factor
hope you wear gloves at least.

Thats soo true, its 'bar talk'. You know, stuff people say when they are drunk & want to impress someone they don't really know.
But, the scrapyards know it all.

I did get looked at queerly once when dropping off batterys. He asked me if I "topped them up with water".n
I go "****! Forgot about that..... I wanted to keep the acid for electroplating experiments.. Too late".

I would have just poured it into a container & not topped it up with water, just left it dry.
He checks them, nah, normal acid level. Puzzeled.

Only later I find out that 4wd drive & boat batterys have heavier plates to take the punishment.
They also last only 2/3rds of the time a normal car batterys does.

Hmm, boatyards.... A possible place to get batterys from. Someone who owns a boats not gonna muck around with dirty batterys & acids for a few $$. Get all that crisp white clothing dirty..nah.

The answer is very simple, if you are dealing in the tens of thousands of pounds why would you sell to a scrap yard????? I would find myself a battery refurbisher, the guys that sell used batteries, most yards resell them to these types of places if the are not shipping full trailers, second option call a commercial battery dealer like interstate they have lots of locations all across the USA. they buy batteries also and if they need lead to ship they pay very high prices for the batteries, you know some thing if you guys have a problem in a yard reguarding weights and you haven't got your payment yet, just tell them to reload your scrap back on your truck that will in most cases resolve the problem , If you are not happy selling your material at a yard for what ever reason don't sell it.

Did you weigh each battery? Or did you weigh a few and multiply out the remaining?
I ask because in wet lead acid batteries the water does evaporate at different rates. If you are dealing witb 10,000 lbs at a shot, basically 100 batteries at a time the difference in water levels inside batteries could explain discrepency.
I have been doing solar battery banks and literally had two deep cycle batteries bought and used weigh 4 lbs different after 6 months...just my .02.

I forgot.

Weigh yourself!

Do it on your home scales, the scales at a Chemist (Drugstore) then at the scrapyard.

Get a idea of what you weigh (and when you need to go on a diet..) and how far out your home scales are.

Funny > I had weighed up a sack of metal @ 20 kgs. Got it to the yard, it came up as 19 kgs....
So as a joke I bent over the sack and blew downwards hard, the scale readout jumps by 1 kg to 20 kgs.

We laugh and he writes it down as 20kg.

Scales work on downwards force. Air brakes and blowing will push the scales down.

So, if you want better weights, put a few kids in the truck. They'll bounce up and down, and increase your weight reading.