Why on earth should you apologize?
I'm sure 99% of the population has no metallurgical knowledge. Advising people to buy potentially toxic products, then treat them by some medieval process advocated by a stranger on the interwebz, is completely ridiculous. You're the one making sense, Cloud boy - not some guy who thinks trying not to ingest lead is "hysteria."
Good grief.
That's one way to spin that.
The fact of the matter is that atomizers don't reach a temperature that would melt lead. Also, people don't seem to get overly excited about copper water pipes with lead solder either. Do you eat? then you ingest lead. If you walk down the block in NYC, you probably inhale more lead than you would ever get in a year's vaping with an uncleaned Chinese brass drip tip.
The cleaning procedure outlined in my blog is still in current use, is considered acceptable, and was developed at the turn of the century. If you want to call that medieval, then cars and airplanes should also be considered medieval forms of transport.
Face it, our lungs are coated in radioactive sludge from the cigarettes we smoked. Do you really think that a fraction of a fraction of a percent of lead that we "might" inhale over the course of years from using a brass drip tip or a chrome plated brass atty is an actual health concern? I don't.
This all being said, we are all free to make our own choices. I merely posted one way to ensure that Chinese brass was rendered as safe as naval brass.
