Abstract: Method and apparatus for making expanded lead grids for use in Faure-type lead-acid storage battery plates. The finished grid has a current-collecting header of unexpanded strip and a reticulated portion expanded, guillotine style, from the strip into a plurality of paste-retaining cells bounded by skeletal elements and nodes formed during expansion. The skeletal elements and nodes extend in opposite directions through paste from substantially one face of the plate to the other and the nodes are twisted and partially flattened so as to have plateaus on the nodes which lay in planes parallel to the principal planes of the pasted plate. A ribbon or strip of lead is fed into a continuous, in-line, guillotine-type, dual expansion machine and therein expanded along its longitudinal edges to form two reticulated portions and leaving a central unexpanded portion from which a grid, header and lug are subsequently formed.