Posted on 12/01/2010 10:22:12 PM PST by LucyT
Could this become a pretext to shut down garage sales?
but making moonshine with lead pipes leads to blindness. You have to use copper pipes to keep from poisoning someone...daddy use to make shine...
“but making moonshine with lead pipes leads to blindness.”
Well, I never heard of a moonshiner using lead, unless there could have been a little lead solder on a cooker.
The tubing has to be copper for flexibility and good heat dissipation.
I had a moonshiner next to me, but I thought he had been long out of business.
One day I was out walking on my farm, very close to his spot of woods, when there was a large explosion.
Dirt, twigs and leaves came raining down.
I scurried up from the deep ravine to go see what had happened.
The federal revenuers were there, and had put dynamite to his still.
Old Robert Lee, the moonshiner, was not there at the time.
Did you ever taste his product...I hear good moonshine is a great drink...
When I was a kid, his white lightening looked just like water and he sipped it like he did his scotch...Last time he made it was somewhere in the early 50's...
Some moonshiners would use car radiators to cool. I think they were bad to have lead in them.
“Did you ever taste his product...I hear good moonshine is a great drink.
It is, but I never tasted his. I am sure he did not want me knowing that he made it.
I have had moonshine in Tennessee and Mississippi, made by real pros , and when living in Slovakia, I had plenty of excellent, home made Slivovica (plum brandy).
One summer my father went out wild blackberry picking (in the woods) and started to make blackberry wine (at the cottage) then decided to make blackberry brandy instead, and that took 2 years of fermenting...Well, the crock cracked in the second year and he almost cried...the cottage smelled like a bad bar all summer...good thing it was in the basement..
I am going by memory as that was over 35 years ago...but the smell lingers on...LOL
Thats a picture of a Pyrex refrigerator bowl, without the lid...I use them to this day and are from (I think) the 1950’s..
I love those Pyrex refrigerator jars. You know, if you sand one with a commercial belt sander and add the particles to your food, it might be dangerous. Be careful out there...LOL!
You are right. The radiators were said to be the problem. I would imagine they had a lot of other bad stuff in them also.
If they ban garage sales it will greatly affect low-income people. I raised my kids on second-hand clothes and toys.
I still buy everything second-hand - I have bought 3 articles of NEW clothing for myself in 25 years (excluding socks and undies).
I even buy old stuff at yard sales and sell them on Ebay and at an antique booth. If it was all so toxic we would already be dead.
When science finally decides if Oatmeal lowers Cholesterol or not - maybe....just maybe I will start listening to them.
See, you're talking to the wrong people. Your lawyers would see all manner of deleterious effects, provided they could find a suitable target ("deep pocket") to sue for damages.
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