1 2many wrote:That's your call mate and if your happy with it go nuts.
We at Aussie Distillers try to enforce safe and health practices so we won't encourage members to use brass in there setup and that won't be changed.
You can calculate all you want but it won't wash here. ;-)
I certainly wouldn't condone ANY unsafe practices, whether it's in distilling at home or in the work place and I'm not "encouraging " any 1 to do anything, I'm trying to point out that the amount of lead in brass fittings now is so infinitesimal that it's difficult to measure and that you WILL be getting more lead out of your domestic water taps at home and have been for the last umpteen years than you may get out of a couple of brass fittings in a still. It is a proven fact that lead leaches out of brass water taps, but no where have I been able to find any documentation of lead leaching in the vapour flow of stills.
I'm not advocating every body starts using brass fittings willy nilly, what I am trying to do is put a bit of perspective into the view on brass rather than just following a mass hysteria that "brass is bad" in a still.
And just for you naysayers please consider this,
1/ have you found ANY research on lead leaching from brass in stills
2/ have you changed all your domestic taps to stainless steel, if not, why not ? ( and good luck with that coz there's lead in stainless steel too )
ok now I'm going to put my heat shield on :angry-extinguishflame:
ps Sorry I know :text-offtopic:
pps. I think the sky is going to fall tomorrow :smile: