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I think you missed the boat on what you are trying to process, and recover. You do not want the metallic Lead from the batteries, you want the paste which gets pressed into the metallic grid, on the + side of the battery, You can put all the + plates in a large roasting dish, where the Lead grid can melt, forming balls of metallic Lead, but you need to pick out or screen the metallic stuff out. You want the powder only. In the roasting dish, it will eventually turn Orange/Yellow. This is Lead Oxide, the stuff you want. There are a bunch of posts on the benefits of using PbO over straight Pb, when smelting or assaying. Reread Stoneware's posts, and watch how they reprocess batteries in India on Youtube. These guys use very minimal, if any PPE's. Take the precautions they are not. If you want to recover all the Lead from the battery, keep the + from the -, and melt separately. You can add the metallic from the + plates, after screening, to the - plates.