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To: rarestia

I can still readily get 50/50 Tin lead solder at the plumbing supply.

Lead free is mandated for potable water since about 1986 but for hydronic heating, you can still use tin lead.


14 posted on 01/28/2015 9:23:12 AM PST by headstamp 2
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To: headstamp 2
Lead free is mandated for potable water since about 1986 but for hydronic heating, you can still use tin lead.

Funny that the feds make you disclose the potential for lead paint in any home built in 1978 or prior, but nothing is mentioned about the potential for lead solder in your water pipes. Meh. I'm in the process of buying a house built in 1969, with copper pipes. Am I worried? No. Lead paint? Grew up with it, lead solder, drank all the water I drank as a kid from pipes soldered with it. I'm okay.

So am I.

Me, too.

Don't forget me...

27 posted on 01/28/2015 9:50:02 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: headstamp 2

I have a few 1 pound rolls of 50/50, but close to 40 of the 1 pound rolls of lead free.

I stocked up when prices started getting high.


37 posted on 01/28/2015 10:10:48 AM PST by ansel12 (Civilization, Crusade against the Mohammedan Death Cult.)
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To: headstamp 2

and i use lead/tin around my house for all my plumbing.


42 posted on 01/28/2015 10:28:18 AM PST by kvanbrunt2 (civil law: commanding what is right and prohibiting what is wrong Blackstone Commentaries I p44)
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