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Hi guys i am bathing my 1/4" brass needle output valve in citric acid 1 teaspoon in 500ml water. How long would be recommended. Cheers

You need to "pickle" brass in a solution of peroxide and water, I can't recall the ratio ATM though. Citric will only clean it, pickleing will remove any potential lead from the surface.

"pickleing" brass isent the a all and b all it only lasts a while saying that most new brass is now almost lead free

Almost lead free is like almost being rid of the clap, you still have it but its almost gone.

How do you know that copper is lead free have scraped tons of copper pipe that had lead solder if that copper was reprocessed into pipe could have small amount of lead.

Pretty sure the smelting process removes all foreign traces..

bluc wrote:Pretty sure the smelting process removes all foreign traces..

Yah they take a healthy foreshot :laughing-rolling: