Technical Battery Cores

I have about 6 dead batteries taking up space. I was keeping one or two for cores. Called O'Rreillys, they say they give a $10 gift card per battery. Good deal? Anyone done it? So that's 10 bucks worth of purchase power? What's the going rate for core charge when you buy a new battery?

 

My local Interstate gives $15-20. Not a bad offset of costs if you bring in 6 cores for a new battery.

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10-20 depending on size

Got 700 for a forklift battery a while back a customer wanted gone!

 

Thanks. Harrumph, I called Interstate here, 12 cents a pound. 50 pound battery, 6 bucks.

 

I think some of it depends where you live. Around here, the core charge when you buy a new battery is $15.

I have trouble keeping an old one about, since I end up getting "new" cars that don't have a battery in them. Then I get the car going, and need to buy a battery for it.

 

Oreillys has a 5 a day per customer limit.

 

Keeps the tweaker crowd down I betcha

 

Stealing batteries out of trucks has become a thing up here

Big 24 volt batteries or 3-4 12volys lined up under a truck easy picking for crack heads to turn in for cash.
Decent money for them up here

 

Here the state charges you $12 if you don't have an exchange for EVERY new battery. The local scrap yard buys batteries by the pound. Normal auto battery is $15 to $20 payout.

 

But what would I trip over every time I walk around the garage?.........

 

Just sold 3 auto batteries to salvage last week, all 3 together brought 17.50. So less than 6 each.

 

$5.00 in SW Washington but I think they charge a $20.00 core if you don't have one on a new battery.

 

Was looking at new batteries at O'Riellys the other day. They ding you like $25 if you don't have a core...

 

A few years ago took ten to interstate. Got 10 each. When kids were home had all these under work bench. From all there rides.

 

I didn't know Oreilly's was still doing that, my store even paid for riding mower batteries. Looks like 50 more bucks worth of car parts coming my way, unless the local junkman will pay more

 

We have the same problem in St. Louis. One of our guys was changing batteries in a road tractor outside in the street in front of the shop. He stacked up the cores and went inside to grab a hand truck. He was gone for three minutes tops, and a car stopped and swiped all four cores. We would haves loved to get our hands on them!


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The scrap yard I deal with in South St. Louis pays 25 cents a pound last time I hauled them.


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Its $18 core charge for a battery @Orielly auto. $22 for the larger bus type battery's

Bring your dead old ones in for $10 each recycle when you need to get parts it sure helps.

 

I put my battery stuff in a filing cabinet, top drawer is for tools and testers. 2nd drawer is for parts- posts, battery cables, ends, battery trays ect… 3rd drawer is for jumper cables and chargers. And the 4th drawer is for old batteries, some good, some not so good. Had stuff scattered all over my shop before.

 

Carquest will occasionally have battery purchasing offers. Have seen $10 and $20 deals.

 

Bump and a quick FYI. O'Reilly still giving $10 store credit for a core, charges $18 if you don't have one. Costco charges $15.

 

Here’s a tip: if you recycle at a place that pays by the pound, make sure it is full of fluid. Top off with water if low.

CN

 

Unfortunately they deduct for the weight of the "acid" by paying a lower price.

 

Call the battery "rebuild" shops. They always pay more than parts stores or scrap yards, at least in MI they do. Last time I purged old batteries I got $12 each, had 5. Gas money...

 

I always keep one completely dead battery around.
When I melt scrap lead, I scrape off the dross and dump it into the dead battery. It's a great way to dispose of toxic lead scum, bypassing the screwy hazmat bureaucracy.
However the battery must be utterly dead, or exciting things will happen when the lead scum shorts out the plates.

Otherwise, they are a big heavy piece of crap to have hanging around.

 

Look at the bright side; it wasn't too many years ago that you had to pay to dispose of old batteries...

 

Anyone else here old enough to remember taking the old tar top batteries apart cell by cell and putting 6 good-ish cells together to get a working-ish battery? Man I'm getting old...

 

check lead prices online, it goes up and down...

i used to work at a battery company ,too the new batterys that were shorted off the line ,and replaced the shorted cells

 

No, but some people do more or less the same thing with cordless tool battery packs.

 

Pretty interesting video showing a man (Pakistan/Afghanistan?) repairing a battery using very simple tools. Unfortunately the working conditions are very poor, considering he's handling lead. Craftmanship is impressive nevertheless.