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An acid comment...ain't no acid in tire weight handling...just sayin'. 
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This is a 1500 lb. keel for my old boat, Passage. When it came time to pour the mold I'd made, I was most grateful to find a place still in business...back in the '70s...with big vats of lead. They pumped the lead into the mold while I waited, literally. Cost me a dime a pound over market.
This is why I still have 400 lbs of lead pigs sitting in my garage some thirty plus years later.
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- Seems I have to buy a deep cycle battery every 2 to 3 years.
- Sounds about like my experience.
- The only thing I've noticed is, they're going up in price Al.
- And one other thing. While it was fully charged, the electrolyte level was low,
- The excuse I get for the price going up is the price of lead...
- I think the lead cost is the issue
- Then, we are getting screwed on the core charge?
- Yes, but you get to feel good about being environmentally responsible.
- Melt it down and make a keel?
- An acid comment...ain't no acid in tire weight handling...just sayin'.
- An acid comment...ain't no acid in tire weight handling...just sayin'.
- Melt it down and make a keel?
- Yes, but you get to feel good about being environmentally responsible.
- Then, we are getting screwed on the core charge?
- I think the lead cost is the issue
- I carry Interstate at my Hardware store....
- The only thing I've noticed is, they're going up in price Al.
- timely question tom...
- Sounds about like my experience.