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Steve
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11th Aug 10 at 12:03   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
are you meant to dispose of these at refuse sites?
Brett
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11th Aug 10 at 12:05   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I believe so. There's a separate area for batteries at our local tip.
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11th Aug 10 at 12:18   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Halfords will take it if you drop it off to them.
AK
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11th Aug 10 at 12:18   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
yup...

All council dumps have battery and engine oil disposal facilities.
Steve
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11th Aug 10 at 12:19   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ta

halfords is closer, will they accept even if im not buying a battery off them?
sand-eel
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Pour the acid out, take the lead out, sell the lead.
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Yea, they should do Steve - might be worth give them a call just to make sure.
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quote:
Originally posted by sand-eel
Pour the acid out, take the lead out, sell the lead.


And they wonder why these guys actually take them in free of charge major money to be made in recycling (sp)
Brett
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11th Aug 10 at 12:24   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
How much would a single battery make then, out of interest?
SnK
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I'd say no more than £5.
AK
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11th Aug 10 at 12:28   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
not enough to bother 'disposing' of the acid safely - for a single person/battery
Jakey
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11th Aug 10 at 12:29   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Get £6 a battery at our local scrappy.
Steve
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11th Aug 10 at 12:30   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i didnt know you could sell them
mattk
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lead is worth fuck all anyway, I wouldnt say there is any more than a £5ers worth in the full weight of a battery
Nath
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£6 is nearly half the cost of a lower arm.
Jakey
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11th Aug 10 at 12:32   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Genuine ford part or pattern part?
Nath
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quote:
Originally posted by Jakey
Genuine ford part or pattern part?


Ah yes, good point.
Steve
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11th Aug 10 at 12:33   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
one on there is ford, new one isnt

100 quid for a ford one, fuck that
mwg
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have you powder coated it blue?

[Edited on 11-08-2010 by mwg]
Steve
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11th Aug 10 at 12:37   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
no m8, you powder coated your lips blue?
Ojc
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hi
Steve
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i dont mean to cause you offence but you have a lovely bone structure, you are a gorgeous example of a bipedial man
Ian
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11th Aug 10 at 13:31   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
We got a few quid each off the scrap man.
Steve
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when you say scrap man, where do you go to find these scrap men? do they hang around at the refuse sites? lol
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11th Aug 10 at 13:33   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
some one i know picks up old batteries from gold clubs and uni's.. £200 +- £50 a tonne dependig on price of lead.. Some fukers weigh over 30 kg...

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