[Fwd: Re: [wplug] Recycling old UPS batteries]

[Gary Morrow]

Matthew J. Hughes wrote:
 > There has got to be a great story behind why you know that piece of 
trivia!
 >
 > "~8 old car batteries would pay for a
 > case of beer."
 >
 > 1 hacker point to you
 > -matt
 >

Sorry I didn't see this one before.  It got in the wrong mail folder
due to the "Fwd".

I humbly thank you for the hacker point.

Here's the story.  I once was a tractor trailer mechanic.  The trucks 
had 2 batteries each.  The boss would occasionally take the pile of old
batteries to the junk yard and buy cases of beer on the way back.  The
beer got divided among drivers/boss/mechanic as a small perk.

See it's a "free as in beer" story.

 >
 > -------- Original Message --------
 > Subject: 	Re: [wplug] Recycling old UPS batteries
 > Date: 	Wed, 25 Jan 2006 16:35:15 -0500
 > From: 	Gary Morrow <gary.morrow at ansys.com>
 > Reply-To: 	General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
 > To: 	General user list <wplug at wplug.org>
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 > <43D7E70F.7070900 at adelphia.net>
 >
 >
 >
 > Junkyards used to pay by the pound for old lead acid batteries.  It's
 > probably not worth it for just one battery but they might be interested
 > in 200lbs of them.  I'd call around if I were you.
 >
 > I believe that it worked out to ~8 old car batteries would pay for a
 > case of beer.  Of course the price of scrap changes over time so YMMV.
 > Now that I think about it, 8 car batteries probably weigh about 200lbs.
 >
 > Gary Morrow
 > UNIX Systems Engineering and CASE Tools.
 > ANSYS, Inc.
 > gary.morrow at ansys.com
 >
 >
 > Richard Farina wrote:
 >> To be honest, I have a whole STACK of old ups batteries, maybe 200lbs
 >> worth.  If you promise you will recycle the ones that are useless to
 >> you, you may have them all.  They all have life left in them, just not
 >> under the load that I put on them with all of my computers.  Let me 
know.
 >>
 >> -Rick Farina
 >>
 >> Michael P. O Connor wrote:
 >>
 >>> Rick does the battery have any life in it (aka can stay on for maybe 10
 >>> minutes) if so I might like to see if I can get it from you, I might be
 >>> able to use it in a non-UPS application.
 >>>
 >>>
 >>>> Does anyone know of a place in Pittsburgh (or close enough) that
 >>>> recycles old UPS batteries?  I really feel bad throwing out a 26lb
 >>>> battery filled with lead and acid.
 >>>>
 >>>> thanks,
 >>>>
 >>>> Rick Farina
 >>>>
 >>>>
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