Cider Digest #0382

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 · 7 months ago

Subject: RE: Lead etc. 
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1993 07:19:00 EST 
From: "Pamela J. Day 7560" <DAY@A1.TCH.HARVARD.EDU> 

Hello All, 
        My advice is to throw the bucket away. Lead is not very  
reactive and chances are that you won't be able to dissolve it 
out of any small scratches etc.. As a result it could leach out into 
many successive batches in ppm amounts, not that it would be enough 
to do you much harm, but it is toxic. It's also just not worth the  
aggravation, primary fermenters aren't expensive, save the brain  
cells you're likely to burn out worrying about it. 

Pam 

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