Comestible Polymeric Coatings
Comestible Polymeric Coatings
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Will this type of coating work on other metals such as brass or bronze?
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RE: Comestible Polymeric Coatings
Food products are generally coated in copper vessels and there is always sticking problem.
You should check with your provider as to the type and are there any coating problems on copper alloys.
You probably want get a definitive answer as there are too many coating out there.
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Are you talking about leaded bronze?
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Brass has been used for potable water for many years and the only complaint is that in some water the fittings will turn green. This was mitigated by plating with Cadmium, very bad and later Nickel, until the price got too high for normal fittings.
One other problem with Brass you have process called, Dezincification, if used in very pure water. This is where the Zinc and Copper dissolve and the Copper plated back on the brass fitting.
What specifically are they trying to prevent with the new laws?
Need a little more detail of why you are worried about Lead?
If you are machining a part you can get a Material Test Report on your starting material that list every metal in the composition. If the parts already exist there it would be extremely hard to get tracer on the material.
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see the link above. There is lead in brass.
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I should have made it little clearer when it comes to brasses for potable water service. The brasses used have only tramp amounts of Lead, 0.05% for a lot is the max Lead allowed.
I worked for foundry that produced brasses for potable water service and in the three years that I worked there Lead was reported undetectable using the chemistry of the day. When the company later got an emission spectrophotometer the amount of lead found was < 5 parts per million.
Do you have the permissible limit for Lead per the new standard?
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"The problem eventually was traced to a source in the building's piping system upstream of the water fountains. The cause was a particular type of ball valve and the problem disappeared when the valves were removed. The valves were later found to have as much as 18 percent lead by weight on the inner surfaces contacting the drinking water. Later testing proved the valves would leach lead at levels high above the EPA standard for months."
Even free cutting leaded brasses don't have anywhere near that much lead.
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There are lots of brass alloys without lead, wouldn't it be simpler to use them? They won't machine as easily as leaded brass but they still are not hard to machine.
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I suspect that the new law will apply to the base metal and will not be mitigated by any coating. As stated above at one time we plated a lot of fittings with Cadmium for aesthetic purposes. During the same period all galvanized fittings and pipe contained appreciable amounts of lead.
The intent of the law is to prevent ingestion of Lead in any form and I don't think anyone will appreciate any attempt to cover up a leas containing material. I would definitely get a understanding of what the new law allows and until it's clear use a lead free brass, as suggested above.
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