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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
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Astonishing to me that lead water pipes are still in use. Lead poisoning will destroy a person.
What are we, Haiti? Lead in a solid form is not water soluble . Some of the chemicals in the water react with the lead, however. Such as? Acetic acid creates lead acetate as a non-depleting catalyst
Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.
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Campfire Outfitter
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Campfire Outfitter
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Astonishing to me that lead water pipes are still in use. Lead poisoning will destroy a person.
What are we, Haiti? Lead in a solid form is not water soluble . 2 Pb + O2 + 2 H2O -> 2 Pb(OH)2
Don't be the darkness.
America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Campfire Ranger
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Lead is soluble in soft water, low pH water. Solubility goes down as pH goes up.
Use of lead pipes, solder, and pipe joint seals has been banned in construction of public water systems for long time (maybe the 60s?, don't want to look it up).
Lead service lines from water main to house are not part of the public water system, they are privately owned by the home owner, so not regulated as tightly.
There are still lots of lead service lines in older houses (millions?) I'm swagging, but if house built before 1950 I'd check for lead, maybe even stuff built in the 60s.
Yup... Municipalities add orthophospates to water to form a protective coating in lead pipes. The problem with Flint was that they switched to using Flint river water which has a high salinity content at the same time they quit treating their water with orthophospate. The water stripped the phosphate coating out of the service lines, lead leached into the water system.
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Campfire 'Bwana
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Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give a man a welfare check, a forty ounce malt liquor, a crack pipe, an Obama phone, free health insurance. and some Air Jordan's and he votes Democrat for a lifetime.
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Campfire Tracker
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What part do you think is bull?
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![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/wxQT0vMC/IMG-0887.jpg) 730 grain .458s... mouse fart quiet I loves me some scrap lead. Would love to know more about his one! Powder charge, velocity, point of impact difference from standard?
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