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the more I read I can see how really involved the process of getting the lead back of a battery is. Looks like it off to the the yard with batteries.Thanks for all the input

yeah, it would be like 80% waste if I cant use the oxide

starbits posted while I was typing,the forklift battery is an older lead acid not a maintance free

I have melted down a couple hundred pounds of wheel weights and I dont konw what oxide youre talking about but the oxide from the battery is what is found on the plates in a grid type pattern,this...

to the scrap yard, if I cant reduce the lead oxide to metallic lead

Hi to all, I cant figure out how the spongy lead (lead oxide) found in batteries can be recycled,say for fishing weights or something. I am aware how dangerous smelting lead is and after heating this...

All the answers you need can be found at goldrefiningfourm.com. I have played around a litttle with silver recovery and can confirm all the safety precautions you will read about chemicals are...

yeah those are tough. I have even pulled the bearing off and driven the shaft out and still the best I could do is cut the copper ends off. If theres not an easier way I am not even going to mess...

yes, I have heard that old radial aircraft used platinum points and I know they have fine wire spark plugs they still use today with platinum on them.

Hi to all, It seems to me that small awg stranded wire like 18 or 20 the individual strands are about the same size as the very small wire found on small transformers and things.So I dont understand...

I tried soaking a piece in solvent-nothing, tried acetone-nothing, even scraping it off doesnt get it all

Hi to all, I have some square wire that measures .225 thick and some thicker than that from transformers.Is it considered wire? and it has a thin kinda fiberous insulation on it that I am quessing...

If the rotor (armature) has copper on it, it will be easy to see and the and where the brushes ride(acumalator) will be copper. I'm by no means an expert about this stuff all I did was google...

thnaks, shows what i know

yea that would be the rotor bear,it has a shaft through the middle of it with a bearing on each end and the surface were the brushes ride (accumulator) seem to always copper.I havent seen that many...

not bear but pretty sure your talking to me.The aluminum cut off wheels are suppposed to be for non-ferrous and work better but apparently not.I'll get some decent ones for steel and give them a...

I took some 41/2 in x .045 sait aluminum cut of wheels to cut the top off the windings in the stator and what a let down they were. These windings were only about 5'' and I could'nt even do 2 before...

Thats a pretty good idea, they are thin enough to get into places bolt cutter could not.

are you talking about a weed eater? Thats what came up on goggle.I'm not sure what you mean by 2 handle brush cutter?

each ac had 2 radiators,I quess 1 evaporator and 1 condenser? All together there was 1 that was all aluminum and 1 of the fuzzy's the rest were were copper tubing with aluminum fins.These have all...

Hi to all, did some real work today.A friend gave me 3 ac/heat units like in a motel already drained of freon.I'll take an electric motor over a compressor anyday,those compressors must have been...

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found out today the big copper coils are transformers,sorry I should have tried to google a diagram or something so people would know what I'm talking about.Oh yea when unwinding an extension cord...