I don't know what he considered refurbish but I worked with a guy that did that part time. He supplied used car lots with batteries and took their old ones in trade to refurbish. One of the main problems is scale in the bottom shorting out the plates. Funny on that one is that it seems the better the CCA rating for a given dimension battery (size) the longer the plates and that means they are closer to the bottom of the case and the scale flaking off can short them out easier than low CCA for that size which have shorter plates. He also poured out the water acid mix and installed new acid. Then a little spit and polish and wala, a newly reconditioned battery.
On that account, one day he comes to work and half his face is burned with circles around his eyes where his glasses protected them. We all got a big laugh out of it and he was a good sport but we were tacky in acting like we did. He had hooked a string of these restored batteries in series across utility supplied 120v ac line voltage in the shop (used a rectifier to get DC) and had them in a closed room charging at a pretty good clip. He came into the room sometime later and accidentally bumped the string and one of the clip on connectors came off and made a big spark.......with a room full of Hydrogen Gas......guess what!
it was winter time but none the less after that he left the windows open and a big fan bringing in fresh air. I bought several from him at a great price and they ran good for me.
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