Does your community have some sort of hazardous materials disposal arrangement, like someplace you can take it and drop it off to be properly disposed of?
Or - do you know any shops that might want it? We used to keep "dry" batteries in storage and add acid as we needed them. I shudder to think that it would be poured out on the ground. I can't imagine that would be good for anything. Dan On Jan 22, 2013, at 12:26 PM, David & Kristin Gilmore <dandkgilm...@frontier.com> wrote: > I seem to remember someone in this group one time recommending using > acid to improve the soil for growing potatoes. Can anyone provide details on > the procedure? Or perhaps it was a joke. In any case I have between 3 and 4 > gallons of battery acid I'd like to be rid of. I have googled the subject > and found many safety warnings - such as always adding acid to water, not the > other way around - but I am coming up short on uses for it outside of lead > acid batteries. And it appears batteries nowadays come already filled with > acid and sealed. > > The story is that last summer I rolled my farm tractor and hurt my > elbow in the process. By the time the elbow had recovered enough to run a > chain saw to free the tractor it had spent about three weeks on its side, > draining half the acid out of each battery cell. Judging from the size of > the battery I figured I would need 3 - 5 quarts to replenish it.. While at my > local NAPA getting some other parts I found quart containers of battery acid > were about $5 each and they had only 2. But they would sell me a 5 gallon > container for I think it was $32. So that is what I bought and used about 1 > 1/2 gallons. It is in a heavy cardboard box with a plastic liner that > collapses as the acid is drained out by an attached hose. > > I have the box sitting up on a dry shelf in the equipment shed. I have > never before needed battery acid and I don't anticipate needing it again. I > don't want it to leak as the result of accident. Nor do I want stolen by > some crazy person like the one that attacked the school children in > Connecticut. Any suggestions as to what to do with it? Thanks. > > Dave Gilmore, Cameron WV > > Sex is the mysticism of materialism. > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
