Brass drip tips? Good, bad or ugly?

[Phone Guy]

I know there's a bunch of stuff on here (and other places) about chrome plated brass being bad and taboo in atomizers... I recently saw a bunch of brass drip tips on fast tech (among other places). And I'm wondering if brass for drip tips is also considered unsafe, unhealthy, nasty or otherwise "ugly"

I've read brass is considered a dirty metal, yada yada yada.....

Just wondering what is the consensus of opinions?

 

[SleeZy]

I'm wondering the same about driptips.
However i would avoid brass bases, personal opinion mind you.
There was a youtube reviewer that could scratch the base with a nail to show the brass.
And think of the heat that the base has to withstand, and juices on that. I wouldn't feel "safe" vaping that.

But i'm a "better safe than sorry" type. Quit odd since we used to smoke which is like 4000 chemicals... Now when we're vaping we're anxious for "minor" stuff
However i vape to get away from all the toxic so well...

But i would want a brass drip tip... -.-

 

[Nataani]

Careful with brass. For ease of machining many manufacturers add lead to it, which I am sure you know is not good for you.

For the most part it is unlikely that a juice will corrode the brass enough to carry the lead in the vapor, but really, I wouldn't take the chance. Even in very small quantities lead can have very nasty effects on the brain.

 

[edyle]

I know there's a bunch of stuff on here (and other places) about chrome plated brass being bad and taboo in atomizers... I recently saw a bunch of brass drip tips on fast tech (among other places). And I'm wondering if brass for drip tips is also considered unsafe, unhealthy, nasty or otherwise "ugly"

I've read brass is considered a dirty metal, yada yada yada.....

Just wondering what is the consensus of opinions?

Brass is basically copper.
Copper is on the heavy metal side of things: basically you want to stay away from heavy metals biochemically.

I've seen aluminum tips! I'd feel more comfortable with aluminum; its a light metal; but suspect there less durable.. maybe becoming brittle with time.

The black 'delrin' tips seem pretty inert.

Oh, and brass tips might also be chrome plated brass: I would be more concerned about sucking on chrome than on copper.

For metal, the tip I'd be happiest with is cutlery grade stainless steel, like what your spoon is probably made of.


oh, and nataani raised an important point.

'brass' might sound nice and fancy, but brass is really mostly copper.
To make copper more durable/shiny, it is 'alloyed' with other metals; one of those alloys is brass; but when you mine metals, the metals are not pure, and the heavy metals tend to occur together, so when you get your stuff from the mine, it contains gold silver, copper, lead, tin chromium , pretty much all the heavy metals (because they're produced en mass in gigantic fusion reactors we call 'stars'), and these metals are separated apart, but the separation is certainly not perfect; your copper is going to have a certain amount of other metals in it.
So for manufacturing, or course you want to manufacture stuff a cheaply as possible, so you are not going to use high grade copper that is super refined and pure; high grade copper will go towards like electrical and electronics manufacturing; for simple containers you'd use the cheap stuff; If you could just use the cheapest stuff it would be iron, but iron rusts. Brass is shiny and soft- easy to mold, and the shiny sells.

 

[Kryyptyk]

Most brass tips bought from reputable sources won't have lead in them. It's the same grade of brass used to construct musical instruments.
I personally don't like using brass as it dulls quickly and needs to be polished. I'm a stainless steel person just for the sake of less hassle.

 

[cubey]

I stick to Delrin or Stainless Steel. I have a neighbor that used to rave about the glass drip tips and said everyone should try at least one. I have yet to try one but he likes them


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[Glen Snyder]

Brass is basically copper.
Copper is on the heavy metal side of things: basically you want to stay away from heavy metals biochemically.

I've seen aluminum tips! I'd feel more comfortable with aluminum; its a light metal; but suspect there less durable.. maybe becoming brittle with time.

The black 'delrin' tips seem pretty inert.

Oh, and brass tips might also be chrome plated brass: I would be more concerned about sucking on chrome than on copper.

For metal, the tip I'd be happiest with is cutlery grade stainless steel, like what your spoon is probably made of.


oh, and nataani raised an important point.

'brass' might sound nice and fancy, but brass is really mostly copper.
To make copper more durable/shiny, it is 'alloyed' with other metals; one of those alloys is brass; but when you mine metals, the metals are not pure, and the heavy metals tend to occur together, so when you get your stuff from the mine, it contains gold silver, copper, lead, tin chromium , pretty much all the heavy metals (because they're produced en mass in gigantic fusion reactors we call 'stars'), and these metals are separated apart, but the separation is certainly not perfect; your copper is going to have a certain amount of other metals in it.
So for manufacturing, or course you want to manufacture stuff a cheaply as possible, so you are not going to use high grade copper that is super refined and pure; high grade copper will go towards like electrical and electronics manufacturing; for simple containers you'd use the cheap stuff; If you could just use the cheapest stuff it would be iron, but iron rusts. Brass is shiny and soft- easy to mold, and the shiny sells.

Just and FYI, doesn't dispute any of the rest of what you're saying. Common brass is around 60/40 Copper/Zinc

 

[Neonrain]

I have/had brass tips. They have a taste, not a strong metal taste or anything but its noticeable. Might just be me though.

 

[crxess]

http://metals.about.com/od/properties/a/Composition-Of-Common-Brass-Alloys.htm

Me, I like the look and have a few Brass tips.
I figure as long as I don't eat them, i.e. kids eating lead based paint, I should be good to go.

Kind of hard to suck one part of an alloy out of another.