Re: 6 Volt battery
The last remaining lead smelter in the US closed in 2013... which is about when the price of batteries started to explode.
From the link:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/timwors.../#2799cc16642b
We've the news today that the last remaining primary lead smelter in the US is to close. Probably a good idea and the reason it's closing is simply because we don't need it any more. In this sense the hippies have won and a good thing too.
St. Louis-based Doe Run Co., the world’s third-largest producer of lead from mines, said it will stop smelting operations as part of a $65 million agreement with the U.S Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Missouri. The company has operated the facility since 1986.
Doe Run said the estimated $100 million cost to build a new facility and meet air-quality standards was too risky.
“We saw no alternative to closing our plant,” Gary Hughes, general manager of Doe Run’s Metals Division, said in a Dec. 14 statement.
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Mike Jr. here. I get on here every few months to check messages, and look through his almost 500 saved messages for information on the '29 and '34 I still have. A lot of very nice people on here. He truly enjoyed Ford Barn.
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