Rafarmer, you're already doing a good job with charging that battery. You don't know until you try! It might be fine. A lot of tech's gave many different testing scenario's that seemed a might confusing. I've shown our battery guy a few tricks to find bad batteries and know when to put them out of service. batteries that wont last more than 3 or 4 hours are equalized and watered properly. He simply uses a Fluke meter with the MIN/MAX setting and lifts the load or drives the truck. Some batteries that test fine cell to cell and are properly charged will show bad during the load test. A bad 36 volt Bat in a reach truck drops to 26 when under load. If yours is good, it will maintain at least 32 volts under extreme load. Simple test. I showed him to touch the connections on the battery and check for heat build up and discoloration.. Now he doesn't spend time with gravity tester and complicated tests. My trucks are not blowing power amps and drive motors any more.
And yes those scrap dealers are hungry for lead!
Rafarmer, you are quite capable of testing this battery your self without paying some expert!
Expert: X is unknown Spert is what what comes of a garden hose when you turn off the water