Scrap battereys

[Bacon]

Is there much value in scrap batts,Reason i'm asking is i've got 100 to replace in a UPS system and if on a like for like basis each batt weighs 13kg.

 

[Manator]

I do know that scrap yards will take them, a good clue as to the value of anything is if you leave it out the front of the building, if its gone within an half hour, its worth something!

 

[steptoe]

I think its more the lead value than anything else.

 

[Andy™]

as above, worth weighing them in for the lead.

100 UPS batteries aint going to b cheap....

 

[kerching]

I do know that scrap yards will take them, a good clue as to the value of anything is if you leave it out the front of the building, if its gone within an half hour, its worth something!

Half an hour??

Here it does not matter if it is still fastened to the wall... :coat

 

[Revved Up Sparky]

A bloke down the local market is handing out batteries free of charge......

 

[revjames]

I know that car batteries have a scrap value of approx

 

[Bacon]

Hope i can get somethink for them.

 

[sellers]

as rev says, got a fiver last time i weighed a car battery in. Get them scrapped!

 

[revjames]

where are you Bacon? I know people who deal in scrap so might be able to help you get them sorted

 

[Bacon]

Well the jobs in Norfolk in a couple of weeks Rev,Nearly a a ton and half to take down just didn't fancy bringing the old ones them back if i can get them shiffted down there.

Replacing the batts in the UPS for a call centre thats why their's so many.

Thanks

 

[revjames]

I'm sure someone will take em off your hands there

 

[Andy™]

1500kg of batteries full of lead, and you dont want the hassle of weighing them in?! are you mad!?

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thinking about it, if you put them on a pallet, i could probably get them transported hundreds of miles to me, weigh them in myself and still make a large profit

 

[Bacon]

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[Bacon]

Bad news with the batts from norfolk job,Went down Tuesday to change had the app with me in another van and he had too bring them back Wednesday and take them back to the yard then they told him to take to the scrap and he got

 

[NozSpark]

That's not good news for you,,, mind your gaffer might have priced this in with his bill....

I got 25p/kilo for lead acid batteries today.... 2 batteries

 

[steptoe]

you need to get to know the customers a bit better,

most of ours will let the guys have the scrap and say nothing.

sometimes its a condition of how we even work, eg, on re-wires the guys get the cable is a part of the deal I have with the bosses.

I actually done a night job a while back where the sloumy was worth more than the pay! and that was the condition I done it, was to keep the scrap, 70mm 4c SWA X 600m.!