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Originally Posted by Neil
You can get short circuits between the plates from deposits or by the plates buckling from overcharging/overstress. This reduces the battery voltage.
I would not recommend cutting a car battery open unless you want to be covered in acid  |
I empty'd the acid out first. I made my fiirst lead acid battery when I was about 17, got the acid and the different lead oxides from America Eccles up Ossy, carved the mould to cast the lead plates into a piece of oak, 90% lead 8% antimony & 2% tin. Used cedar wood for the separators, got 6 volts from 3 cells. Made each cell from 1/4" pespex.
Retlaw.