I'm not sure what a reconditioned battery is. The reason that there are cores on batteries, is that the lead is reused after being melted down at a smeltery, the impurities removed from the molten lead, and then the cleaned lead resold to battery manufacturers and used in new batteries. Battery lead is reused over and over again countless times. I'm not sure what a recondititioned battery is.
Back in the late '70's when economy was pretty much as bad as it is now, lots of folks were down on their financial luck and I worked at an auto parts store nights after school. I helped a few folks out by "reconditioning" a few batteries for them. Basically, folks brought in their bad batteries in as cores as they do now. Sometimes folks laid their last pennies on the counter and still couldn't muster up the cost of a replacement, but in a few cases we had weak batteries to send back where the plates hadn't shorted or broke, terminals still attached. Sometimes I was able to get rid of the old electrolyte, fill them with soapy water, put them on a charger and boil some of the crap off of the plates and case insides, rinse the insides, them fill with new electrolyte, charge, and test them. Then I'd charge the folks for the cost of the electrolyte, maybe 50 cents or a dollar, trade them for their core, send them on their way and not see them for months or maybe a year. When your wallet is near empty, kids are hungry, and bills are late being paid, the difference between going out a buck for a few months or years relief versus emptying your kids piggy bank and scrounging for pennies between the sofa cushions can mean the world of difference. Its important to boil the old electrolyte off of the plates and out of its pores as much as possible, because simply emptying a battery and refilling it with new electrolyte generally doesn't work, and will smoke a battery, literally.
Blemished battery jar? Can't see where that would be a problem so long as the plates and connectors didn't get disturbed, cracked, or broken during the process of whatever caused the blemish.
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