Melting Battery - Trash to Treasure - Lead casting ASMR Video
2022 ж. 2 Қыр.
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Hello friends ! Today I want to take apart and melt down an old battery. I used this battery when pressing cans and it failed. I'll take it apart, remove the electrolyte and neutralize the acid. I will melt the resulting lead and pour a cube. Happy viewing
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DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME , IT CAN BE DANGEROUS .
THESE VIDEOS ARE NOT FOR CHILDREN
Man, this polishing gave me shivers. You better take care of yourself. Lead dust everywhere, floor, furniture, your skin, your lungs....
I found myself holding my breath.
right...lol
Gave you shivers? You may already be to late my friend… I’m pretty sure shivers, tremors,and/or spasms are systems of lead poisoning
You aren't kidding, can't believe anyone would polish anything lead. . Good video!
He stands around a hot smelter, he doesn't give a DAMN about his nervous systemor the safety of his family if he has one. Yikes.
That grey stuff you smacked off was Lead sponge (Lead metal). The reddish brown stuff is Lead Dioxide (PbO2) which can be reduced to Lead metal with charcoal. If Lead is what you are after. Lot for wasted Lead. Also the sulfuric acid you neutralized, could have been recycled and concentrated into a useful chemical.
It's about getting people to watch the video to get monetization, facts don't matter any more, welcome to KZhead.
@@railgap Which is more valuable? That block of lead or the ad revenue over years of people watching?
Everyone who has had OSHA training is literally shitting a brick watching this video lol
Hey brother just a tip. Don't wear a watch or jewlery while doing this and get some dish washing gloves while doing this. You don't want to trap lead particles next to your skin, and you don't want to ingest lead inadvertently while... say eating French fries or something. Great video, just want to make sure your safe dude Cilantro in your diet can help remove heavy metals from the body also, hope this helps! Love and peace ❤️
Safe? He's standing over an operating lead smelter, if he cared about being safe he'd do something safer with his free time, like Naked Rock Climbing, or LSD Triathlon. XD
Very kind of you fam . ..Blessings to you and yours .
That stuff that you knocked off the cell grids is actually lead. It's lead sponge. The grid just holds it in place and they use it because of the enormous surface area compared to solid lead. So that is all lead splattered all over where you beat it out of the grids.
I didn't know it
I remember my first battery break down...what a mess! It was everywhere. Then a couple years later I became a contractor and had to be certified as a lead renovator. Learned some pretty scary stuff about lead. What I didn't realize at the time was all the clay-like stuff between the lead wire mesh is actually lead sulfate and lead oxide in the paste and slurry. I flung it all over like in this video. I was severely contaminated and spread lead contamination everywhere. It really does damage to children and pregnant woman. By all means recover the lead but play it safe. Wish I would have known. .
Thank you my friend, I'll be more careful
A lot of people underestimate how toxic lead oxides are to young children’s brain development.
@@hotmetal85 I have found that just putting everything inside the plastic case, minus the acid of course, and adding charcoal and iron filings to the crucible will reduce lead oxide to metallic lead and reduce the lead sulfate to metallic lead as well. It will help to add borax and/or silica sand to the crucible as well to prevent lead oxidation and formation of lead vapors at the high temperatures needed for the reduction to take place.
@@lonnywilcox445 How much charcoal and iron filings are needed per kg ?
@@ProcaviaCapensis-ts8ub I haven't gotten that scientific yet. I just add charcoal and iron and cook it until I no longer get lead out of it.
Nice video man, do you do alot of these? are you or your neighbors showing any symptoms of the poisoning yet?
Like what symptoms?
I haven't laughed that hard in a while. Thanks
In my opinion, recycling lead acid battery in this way is already the symptom of lead poisoning.
I'm pretty sure I have neurological brain damage just for cleaning out the inside of gas tanks from the sixties and early seventies of course I didn't use gloves or any kind of mask and I wonder why my vision shakes and I'm seeing different color spots flashing all the time! Is it a tumor who knows something's wrong though! I definitely recommend PPE
@@rustybritches6747Eh a brain tumor is just another voice in your head. No need to worry. Haha
That was super fun to watch! My favorite part was when you took apart the battery! So fun!! 😀
Ugh this is definitely not worth the cost in time or damaged health. All of that black lead sulfide sludge spattered everywhere will need to be cleaned up and sent to a recycling place. Here in the USA scrap yards will pay you $10 per battery. For that $10 you could buy 5lb of lead at a surplus metals yard. I know you stated in other comments that this was the first an only time you'll do this, but it's worth repeating: stay safe and leave the lead acid battery recycling to the professionals. They have the equipment needed to do it in a safe manner.
Thoroughly enjoyed that brother. Gets the mind working on how to subsidize the income!!
A lot of work well done, looks good for the collection.
Hey, nice video, but never ever polish Lead like you did. This is so dangerous. Lead ist toxic. Also use a clear coat to seal, just to touch it safely. The other side, its a pretty heavy little Bast...d you made. Very nice. Greetings from Germany brandt-heiss
Hello to you too. Thanks for the info.
I love these trash to treasure videos.
Nice video. I'm just not sure I'd get myself to do this. Especially the grinding and whatnot which puts out dust anyone can breathe.
I was thinking how I'd do it I think I'd add water mixed with baking soda to neutralize it from the getgo, then yes you are right, a particulate mask is a must if you are to cut it with an angle grinder, there must be a way to do it purely with handtools. Have a good day sir !
Interesting. However, you are extremely cavalier about spreading lead and acid all over the place. Using a very small of of baking soda like that will neutralize a very small amount of the acid. There will be bits of lead all over the place where you were bashing on the plates.
That was a neet way of doing that. Haven't seen it done that way. Thanks for sharing
This is great, thank you!
*Breathe in that good'ol lead grinding dust.*
I appreciate this video because I've broken down exactly one car battery and it was the nastiest thing I've ever worked on. I'll never do it again. Honestly nobody should do it, but every scrapper SHOULD watch a few videos like this to understand why they shouldn't do it. It's a ton of work to recycle a box full of toxic gunk and metal!
At these temps you're gonna have lead volatilizing and get exposed to it. Smelting lead releases volatile lead oxides. Actual smelters have air scrubbers and other technology to keep lead down.
With a flat lead surface, have you thought of taking a torch to that surface to puddle it up? Doing that will give you some benefits; A very level and pit free surface that will be easier to buff. You just need to be careful of runoff.
thanks for the tip mate !
As strange as it may seem, this is the first battery breakdown and melt I've seen
I think the first one I saw was king of random back when grant was still alive before his untimely death
@@jamiehughes5573 I briefly went to " the king of random" he seemes like he enjoyed life and spiced it up with a risk factor!
Me 2
I recommend looking at the videos from Pakistan and India where they break down batteries and remanufacture them.
....aaand they died.😂
Great Video!!!👍
Big like for this cool and interresting video! Kind regards from Treasure Island
The material that he knocked off of the lead grids can be refined to Pb. Lead sulphate decomposes to lead at about 650C. Lead oxides will undergo various transformations and can be reduced to Lead by the addition of carbon, for which charcoal is a good source. Alternatively, the ladle charge can be heated to 650C to 700C to decompose the Lead sulphate then cool the furnace down to about 350 to 375C and skim the lead oxide off as dross and refine it separately. . PS: Please, please, please do not pour any molten metal into a cold mold. If there is any moisture present, you will not like the results and you will be lucky if you only end up in the hospital. Mold and ladle explosions are not pretty at all.
Finally answer i was searching for! I found old lead acid battery in forest and was thinking about recovering lead from it - in my case there is alot of red dust (i believe it is PbO) anyway i will launch my crazy scientist lab after i recover said dust from scrapes of remaining lead grid and papper :D
You are a good guy, may God bless you and keep your family safe
@@SufiRepublic Thank you sir.
the lead oxide can be reduced with sugar too. The sugar decomposes into carbon and liberates gases that create a reducing atmosphere. You can ignite the gases to ensure there is no oxygen and the lead oxide will be easily reduced.
@@lautaromorales2903 the sugar has the advantage of already being in a powder form though charcoal is probably less expensive.
I see he's using a screwchisel to remove the caps. You will need a hammerwrench to split the case!😂
Nice stack 👍🏽
Thank you very much
I dry the paste out and snort it.
I hope you are using a really good mask...with all that lead dust!
Great video cant wait to do some
The best part was the end when you tried to polish a turd.
Pulls out chisel to remove the caps and I already know it’s setting a trend for, wrong tool wrong job lol
Very interesting, subbed.
Never seen anyone polish lead
i got lead poisnoning from watching this video
Using sawdust is a great (and cheap) flux to get impurities out of the lead.
good job
Wow there is a lot of Lead in 1 of those, I have like 15 small ones and 2 big ones to get the Lead out of. I like the idea of the elemental label using the chisel. I'm gonna borrow that trick 😁👍
I think you can get more lead if you sell them and buy lead with that money depending on where you live. Also wheel weights need way less effort and can give you pretty clean lead if you keep the temps low so you only melt lead and tin (tin has a lower melting point) and everything else stays solid and floats to the surface
@@justjoe5373 I doubt that will be the case over here, and this way is more fun. Also, I don't do this for the money, it's just a hobby 😁👍
@@ralphmourik If money isn't a concern and nobody's buying dead batteries then by all means go for it. Just be sure to have a gas mask, don't wanna breathe in the acid fumes
@@justjoe5373 … so about that wheel weight thing… I just got a 100lb bucket of em. Only 13lbs 13.7oz was lead. The rest was iron unfortunately
@@lilman227 Damn that sucks. I guess depending where you live everybody's moving away from lead and it's becoming harder to come by. I noticed that they're using less and less lead in general where I live too, sucks that I can't get range lead because I don't know of any other economically sane and reliable source anymore. May have to go snorkeling around popular fishing spots to get sinkers off the bottom of the riverbed lol
Really hard work man you messed up by collecting lead. Great job man .thanks👍👏👏👏👏👏👏🙏👍🇮🇳💐💪🧡👊
Hell no, grinding lead block, puts lead dust everywhere
A job well done sir ! 😎👍
I have no unreal fears of working with Pb I have worked in the secondary Pb world for almost forty years . This video scares the crap out of me expecily hearing the kids in the background. This individual has exposed himself and those around him to multiple heavy metals, including arsenic and cadmium. How were the wastes handled ( contaminated acid ,seporators, oxides)? These will remain dangerous to anyone who contacts them. Please leave this to those who are qualified and follow safe work practices. 😢
"How to get lead on everything I can" ASMR.
How do you clean up and dispose of the waste? I have to take it to a certified landfill in sealed five gallon buckets, else sit on the group W bench as a litter bug.
I use lead solder. I take extra care to avoid getting contaminated, I was in a pinch one day and didn't wear gloves and the tip of my middle finger ached for about a week
We did this as kids, much the same way you did, except no gloves and a wood fire. We were about 8 to 12. That was incredibly idiotic in hindsight on our part. Used them for the sinkers on our bamboo fishing rods. Used empty cans from peas or milk to melt it in
_Nice_
Don’t forget battery lead contains about 5-10% antimony as well
Antimony is there to rigidify the lead
what was the weight of the battery before lead extraction any idea ?
Not recommended! Too much lead contamination, grinding & polishing it being the worse.
Bhai ye lead kaha se milega
Super 👍👍👍
What do you do with acid base lead
Bravo.......marble....limestone.......be careful....lead dioxide .......clean up good......cheers
My dad melted lead batteries to make counter weights for telescopes .and fishing sinkers . I got hundreds of lbs of cast weights and things .
Why. Why would you grind it?? Why would you grind it????
Does it have to be melted down to a block or will the recycler buy it in sheet form
i always drain the battery water into my lake
Couldnt you collect acid too? Then clean/concrete ir?
When you pour the lead into its mold does all the extra junk automatically float to the top to be scraped off OR Could you possibly make a square screen like a colander and when you pour your led into the form slowly pull the colander/strainer out to remove all the junk
Thank you. I'll think about how to do it.
This would only work if your "screen" was heated to well beyond the melting point of the lead... but screening methods aren't used because they're problematic. Even when molten, metals don't like to flow through a screen. On a normal pour, extra metal is melted and any moulds are filled after the dross is skimmed from the surface - the extra metal is then poured into a blank for future use. This method allows a casting without impurities as the impurities always end up in the blank. Best wishes! - Max Giganteum
What exactly is the grey matter you are bounding out? Isn't that Lead as well?
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😎 cool
Thanks for sharing the procedure. I had some old batteries ans I'd never did it becouse to extract the lead part for melting, you have to do a lot of "dirty" work before, managing healtly and environmently hazardous things... and at the end you have a lot of dangerous trash to face with.. These considerations make me the decision to give batteries to a recycle center.. the low value of lead does not justify all this work in my opinion... 😀
Can you solder lead on aluminium?
Man just watching you take ALL these metals from ALL types of things people Usually trash or scrap and let someone else get the bulk of the money for because they are either too busy or too stupid to do what I see you do with ease. I'm sure it is hard work (Anyone who is great at something makes it look like child's play to others) it sure as heck don't mean it is! And I am truly interested in doing some things like this. Any advice on where, what, how to start with?
10.724, how much did it weigh b4 the melt
Big stack?
Lead poisoning????
I never knew what an auto battery looked like inside
How much do make out of that
I knew a guy that died of lead poisoning. He owned an indoor gun range and had full ventilation as well. I definitely wouldn't keep it inside my house. Lead is easy to melt but it can also kill you.
Lead does not kill you like that. You need to ingest lead first. It attacks your nervous system. In the past, kids were eating lead paint chips for example.
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First, you need to vent that shit higher. Those fumes are so toxic you wouldn't believe it. Second you need to add a little antimony so you can use that to cast bullets. Third, that casting looks awesome, good job. great video.
What matériel ?
How many lead get from one battery
Нарушение техники безопасности + загрязнение поверхностей. + загрязнение грунтовых вод со временем свинцом .
Cool, I have a battery I've been wanting to do 👍. Thanks
I've thought about it, too. I'm a bit concerned with self-incriminating videos that run afoul of environmental laws. 😉
@@freemanmetalworks1698 yeah lol. But neutralize the acid and it's okay right? Lol
@@HeinrichsMade The chemistry is correct, so I'm confident that it's all safe, but that doesn't always pacify the powers-that-be.
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But he's not drinking a beer watching the flag! 😂😂
This video needs asbestos and cigarettes to make it complete.
Healthy 👏
Oh Man, I thought I invented the "Slapping" method to removing the paste in the plates! Well, I still like using the "Throw it hard against the ground" method too.
Would love a huge brick of lead like that lol, not willing to risk working with the stuff tho. Maybe someday far from my house
Not bad but I would have neutralized the acid as soon as I opened the battery caps.
I think even in Belarus doing that must be illegal - it's a massive health risk taking apart the battery and the grinding at the end makes it even worse not to mention all the land and water contamination
The new chemicals law in the EU makes it practically impossible to buy hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid and nitric acid. So don't waste sulfuric acid, clean it by filtering. You can dilute it with water (remember: acid is added to water) or concentrate by boiling off water. Batteries usually contain approx. 13% sulfuric acid.
I contemplated doing this for casting bullets, but the comments in the forums suggested it ruined the barrel of the gun. Any comments on using this type of lead for bullets?
Don't do it. Will eat your barrel.
It will not eat your barrel, Lead does not alloy with acid.
22 rimfire uses lead for the bullets. They are only good for 20K rounds or so. That's about 6 times the number of rounds that a rifle using jacketed rounds lasts. Lead doesn't wear a barrel, not cleaning the barrel does the damage.
powder coat the bullets
Should be fine. Just make sure you clean the lead fouling out like anything.
I read somewhere to just build a fire get a coal base throw battery on top add logs all around it. It will burn all the plastic and leave a chunk of lead you can jus collect that and melt it again
This would be a massively stupid thing to do... talk about your great big batch of pollution! Epic facepalm!! 🤦🏻♂ - Max Giganteum
@@MaxGiganteum who cares about pollution. Def wouldn’t be hanging around the fire while thing is burning. Don’t wanna breath that crap in.
@@improvisedsurvival5967 "Who cares about pollution..." we humans are killing ourselves via pollution and you make a statement like that. I won't bother to say anything else other than epic facepalm #2! 🤦🏻♂🤦🏻♂ - Max Giganteum
@@MaxGiganteum you do realize carbon is good for earth. If you burn the woods down it grows back healthy. Your probably one of those people who believe cutting trees down is bad. Or hunting deer is bad. I already know we fundamentally disagree. Hippies are all the same deep down
@@MaxGiganteumhow about melting the metal by heating a closed steel container and collecting the gas through a hose connected to another container with water in it? Saw someone do this to collect fumes from melted plastic to make crude fuel. In this case it could collect the gases and avoid air pollution.
Looks environmentally friendly😤😤😤😤😤
Like 👍🏼🙂
go for a blood test, and monitor your heavy metal, it may have serious consequences if you build up pb in your body
I agree with the people that think this is not worth it. Batteries sold to recyclers are any where from 5 to 7 dollars. That ten lb. Chunk is worth about ten. That's just the cash value. You then have to worry about all the toxic waste you create. Then hope you didn't get contaminated yourself.
I'm seeing prices of about $30.00 for 10 pounds of lead.
I don't think that was 10 lbs but 10 kilograms. So around 25 lbs of lead
@@mattbrolin7045 Well, I just checked, a 12 volt battery contains about 18 pounds of lead. I'm not sure how he wound up with 10 pounds or 25 pounds, but at $3.00 a pound, that either $30, or $75, if he sells it on EBay.
very cool, as long as you are in a ventilated area with proper PPE, and don’t expose anything you use often to this 👍 edit: wrong emoji 💀
Assumption is he is wearing a respirator?
In the case of lead derived from "lead batteries," there's just too much of a mixture to get the quality you're looking for. It's at best an ornament that only looks good, and at worst a crude trophy.
Damn !!! You destroyed the battery, why??
LB or KG?
Why did you remived lead paste? There is 60-70 % of lead! It could be recovered too by baking soda and charcoal.
how do you do that?
@@stevenk2405 What do you mean? Thechnology?
That lead contains Sb ( antimony)