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 Post subject: Old Cellphone Batteries?
PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 12:43 pm 

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I have an old Nokia 5165..........First off, what kind of battery does this cellphone and old cellphones in general have? Is it worth more in scrap or in reselling?


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 2:29 pm 
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If it’s original it’s probably a nickel battery, either nicad or more likely nimh. If it’s a replacement it may be a dry cell lithium
If it has gold contacts boardsort will take them. If the contacts are silver nickel or copper send Chris a photo. They take some but not most of those.

Selling cell phone batteries is more trouble than it’s worth in most cases; to Chris or on ebay. Unless I have a huge amount I tend to drop them in the recycling box at the local hardware store.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 28, 2017 8:04 am 

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Agreed with Lost- shipping these batteries is often at a lost since USPS cannot ship batteries in LFRB (or ANY Priority Mail).


However it is not to say that it can't be sold for a profit, just may have to be done locally/in pallet LTL/FTL shipments.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 1:16 pm 
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There’s multiple write ups here from myself and others. Lithium (not in the device) batteries have many federal regulations.
On top of that many states have their own rules as well. Shipping them is a headache.
I have all the requirements and certification and stopped sending them anywhere.
Just a pain.

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 1:10 pm 

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Hijacking a very old thread to ask a question about cell batteries.

I've seen some with gold contacts. Is there no process for these?

Has anyone had success just removing the contacts and put the rest into a Walmart or Home Depot battery recycling container?


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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 4:18 pm 
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DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME

The gold connection contacts are not part of the battery.
In modern (post mid-2000s) there’s a tiny thin board with short wires on one side and contacts on the other.

In older, non-lithium batteries, the contacts are soldered to terminal posts extending from the wrapper.

Yes, you can remove them. If you know what you are doing AND are rather lucky, yes.
Why would you want to. Lithium makes big fire jets.
Sealed batteries go boom.
The average battery yields between $0.005 and $0.02 gold value.

This isn’t like silver button cells worth $0.50-$2.00
It’s not worth it

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 28, 2023 5:31 pm 
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lol.
I’ve done it. Somewhere either in my video chain or my what’s inside series is photos or video of a battery breakdown.
there’s a billion things that can go wrong. Most of the time you need to remove the battery pouch from the shell to remove the board. So you can puncture the pouch and, fire.
You need to cut the wires in the right order, and risk a short, and, fire.
Even if you don’t need to remove the pouch, like very early lithium replaceables, you can cut the wires in the wrong order and short and, boom.

Taking the gold from a battery pack is like sticking your hand in the pot of coins while the leprechaun is watching you. Just bad thinking all around.
Actually it’s probably more dangerous than the gold coins.

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PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 9:07 pm 

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My yard still buys laptop/cell batteries, lithium only at $0.20 per pound. I don’t know why though.


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 27, 2023 11:29 pm 

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AAK2 wrote:
My yard still buys laptop/cell batteries, lithium only at $0.20 per pound. I don’t know why though.


I sold about 150lbs of just laptop lion batteries to a local yard. They payed $0.05 a lb. I was glad to get rid of them.


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