What are everyone's thoughts on the use of cupronickel for still components?
Our local scrapyard has a small selection of 2" up to 8" diameters of various lengths available at good prices, so was wondering if it is usable. This lot came off the seawater coolant pipes from a salvaged ship so contamination should be no problem.
A quick bit of reading suggests it is normally around 75% copper 25% nickel, with trace manganese/iron for strength. It looks a bit darker than copper so might not shine up to that nice golden colour, but that's a minor trade off.