Technical question

[NeilTheCop]

Two of my golf cart batteries died and being inquisitive I did a lot of reading on how lead acid batteries actually worked. My inquisitive nature then went into overdrive and I took an angle grinder to one of them to have a look see. Not a pretty sight because the failure was that the lead grid inside the positive plate had corroded away to nothing and there was a sludge of oxide and lead fragments at the bottom of the case shorting everything out.
Now the question. Instead of a lead grid for the positive can something like Alloy 20 or any other metal designed to resist H2SO4 be used instead?
I was considering recovering the oxides, washing and neutralizing them, then using hydrogen peroxide per the patent to make a paste and then paste into a grid made of corrosion resistant alloy or maybe even a conductive carbon.
Is this realistic or am I missing something?

[Mike90250]

doing all that is likely more expensive than trading in the cores for new factory batteries

yes I'm sure you can do it

[NeilTheCop]

Not many things I do with alternative energy make any economic sense, it's more of a hobby to slow the onset of senility after retirement.
It's just that I know casting lead is easy, but unless an essential chemical reaction takes place with it, I don't understand why they don't use any alternatives. Even tubular plates have a solid lead core surrounded by active material. The obvious answer would be that the manufacturers don't want them to last a long time
I shall order up some Alloy 20 and give it a try.

[Xplode]

Definitely photograph and document your journey. I'd love to see what comes of it