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Joined: 31/12/2016
Location: AustraliaPosts: 1214
| Posted: 09:35am 26 Sep 2025 |
Over the years and several tons of batteries, I have opened probably close to 100 or so Lead batteries most of them deep cycle (melted them down) and were thick plate's as expected, The starting batteries some of them were produced over the last 15 orso years with thinner and thinner plates, other people also noticed this too, While others Deny this is happening and simply don't know, The worst one I have seen a few years back, (I lost the photo's) so taken another few photos now and removed a plate to show.
While these did start engines ok the batteries degraded much faster than others used in the same way and in the same equipment.
The plate resembles chicken mesh and the entire battery has very little lead in it that could be melted down to make lead weights etc, the only way to to get any lead value is to have it recycled in an industrial process.
