Re: Red Rot


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Posted by Matt Walters on December 08, 2000 at 11:53:57:

In Reply to: Red Rot posted by Jeff R. on December 08, 2000 at 11:14:41:

Jeff,
Red Rot is dezincification. Yellow brass is 70% copper and 30% zinc. Saliva attacks and slowly disolves zinc. What you end up with is a little red spot (like a copper colored penny). Miraphones were especially prone to this in their leadpipes. Most peoplewith older Miraphones choose to replace with with nickel silver pipes which have less zinc and are less prone to that.


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