Mouthpieces Mouthpiece Replating?

[Dr G]

Plus stainless often leaches chromium and nickel but it subsides with time.
Much of the 304 stainless the Chinese sell is not 304 as it rusts and pits.

Stainless steel doesn’t “leach” Cr and Ni. Yes, there is some short range Cr diffusion at the surface to form the protective oxide layer. If you scratch SS and immediately put it in a salt water environment, it will rust. Pitting occurs from a type of galvanic corrosion and can occur on “real” SS given favorable conditions.

 

[turf3]

The Proposition 65 notices aren't about liability, they're about compliance.

If you wish to sell products in California, you have two choices: test to prove that your products do not contain a huge laundry list of supposedly dangerous ingredients, or put the label. If you have not tested it, pure distilled water in a glass container has to have the label saying that it "exposes you to XYZ". It doesn't; what the label's really saying is that "this product has not been tested" and the subtext is "because the manufacturer doesn't have an infinite supply of money to test all this stuff" and the subsubtext is "and anyway, by now everyone ignores these labels because they're on absolutely freaking everything, so it really doesn't matter anyway".

Once again legislators prove that they're mostly handsome charming empty suits that you could drive a coach and four through their heads for a week and never encounter an actual idea. "Unintended consequences" is a concept far too complex for the average state legislature to comprehend.

 

[cappers]

I bought a tin of wasabi peas, grown and produced in Thailand. There is a Proposition 65 label on the side 😱

Is it the peas, the 0.2% wasabi (Japanese horesradish), mustard, salt, rice flower, wheat flour, soy sauce, sunflower oil, colours E102, E133?

They're yummy and moreish and I doubt they'll kill me (unless I choke on one)

 

[skeller047]

It’s the wasabi that causes the warning labe to be necessary. If you have too much of it, you can get skin cancer in the nether regions. Think of a baboon…. Ask me how I know…

 

[cappers]

It’s the wasabi that causes the warning labe to be necessary. If you have too much of it, you can get skin cancer in the nether regions. Think of a baboon…. Ask me how I know…

😉 Apparently too much can aggravate the nethers, like a good vindaloo

 

[PigSquealer]

The Proposition 65 notices aren't about liability, they're about compliance.

If you wish to sell products in California, you have two choices: test to prove that your products do not contain a huge laundry list of supposedly dangerous ingredients, or put the label. If you have not tested it, pure distilled water in a glass container has to have the label saying that it "exposes you to XYZ". It doesn't; what the label's really saying is that "this product has not been tested" and the subtext is "because the manufacturer doesn't have an infinite supply of money to test all this stuff" and the subsubtext is "and anyway, by now everyone ignores these labels because they're on absolutely freaking everything, so it really doesn't matter anyway".

Once again legislators prove that they're mostly handsome charming empty suits that you could drive a coach and four through their heads for a week and never encounter an actual idea. "Unintended consequences" is a concept far too complex for the average state legislature to comprehend.

Besides packaging labels. California requires signs at all doorways in manufacturing facilities too. I had signs everywhere in my printing plant. Ya know, printing inks & paper can make you luminous at night. I always looked forward to our annual fire department inspection. They would chart everything in the facility that was toxic or flammable. One time a young new Captain was questioning everything with authority. Upon exiting I made two comments. “You didn’t check the tags on my fire extinguishers, but they’re up to date. You also don’t realize those two 56’ long machines have three thousand pounds of urethane/ rubber rollers”.
I wasn’t being sarcastic, just through. He thanked me and went to the next building.

 

[r. giuseppe]

All the labelling madness shouldn’t let us forget what this here is about.
Heavy metal poisoning is not a myth and is not limited to lead. There is actually copper poisoning with chronic uptake of copper salts (the green stuff).

Is it a common problem among musicians? I guess no, neither with lead nor with copper. Apparently standard doses are too low for most individuals. No need to panic.

Is it a good idea to still avoid uptake whenever possible by simple means? Decide for yourself.

 

[Targa]

All the labelling madness shouldn’t let us forget what this here is about.
Heavy metal poisoning is not a myth and is not limited to lead. There is actually copper poisoning with chronic uptake of copper salts (the green stuff).

Is it a common problem among musicians? I guess no, neither with lead nor with copper. Apparently standard doses are too low for most individuals. No need to panic.

Is it a good idea to still avoid uptake whenever possible by simple means? Decide for yourself.

Yet wearing a copper bracelet is ‘healthy’ which has been recognised since it was ‘invented’.

 

[r. giuseppe]

Yet wearing a copper bracelet is ‘healthy’ which has been recognised since it was ‘invented’.

Well, skin permeation is certainly less than having it in your mouth. For an idea about dimensions: in contraception copper ions very effectively prevent the occurrence of life, more efficiently than condoms or hormonal contraceptives.

We are much bigger and have grown more resilient. But still I don’t see the point of ingesting something potentially unhealthy if it can be so easily avoided. It would be different if it were unavoidable, then I’d just forget about it.

 

[turf3]

Much of the 304 stainless the Chinese sell is not 304 as it rusts and pits.

All stainless steel alloys will corrode under certain conditions. Chemical analysis is the way to determine whether something is made of the claimed alloy.