is tin or lead bad?

[Leonard12]

is a tin pipe or a lead pipe harmfull to smoke out of? the material is 60% tin 40% lead

[Killa.Kali]

YES!!! Both of those let off cancer causing fumes DONT DO IT lol

[Leonard12]

wat are phaucet or shower heads made out of :confused: ?

[FunkyMonkey]

yea bad for you, especially if used in a bong where it will be sitting in the water.

[Killa.Kali]

Brass or stainless steel usually

[Leonard12]

i heard brass was bad for you too.. or maybe it was another metal..

[screwedcork]

jesus christ you gotta be kidding, that's like solder don't use it

[moeburn]

Dude, are you smoking out of solder?

If thats an actual pipe and you're not talking about soldering, stick it in a pan and put it in the oven, it will melt :D

[Nullific]

Do it and you might make the papers; "Man smokes marijuana from lead pipe- dies."

Seriously though lead is very toxic. Lead is a poison. Ingesting lead may lead to lead poisoning. Lead is a verb, noun and adjective.
I think to be truly safe for smoking purposes the metal has to be anodized.

CVS sells cob pipes for $5 by the way.

[moeburn]

Nullific, he wouldn't make the papers from that.

First of all, you'd either have to eat a chunk of the lead, or hold a butane lighter over it and constantly inhale while the lighter is igniting the lead, every day for a year. Now for some of us pot smokers, that is quite possible :D

But yeah, lead poisoning is a slow and painful way to die. From fumes, extremely slow, you just get stupider and stupider every day for 15 years or so until you die, probably blaming it on the weed. For ingestion, it would be a very sudden death, many years down the road.

So, unless he knew he had lead poisioning and was able to explain it, the papers would never know :P

[slipknotpsycho]

i heard brass was bad for you too.. or maybe it was another metal..
no brass is one of the mainly used metals in metal pipes, next to steel, or could be nickle.
you're probably thinking of copper, copper is bad.

[moeburn]

Copper poisoning sucks, it makes you schizophrenic and gives you golden halos around your eyes, and although it can be cured easily, its extremely difficult to diagnose.

[Omun]

jesus christ you gotta be kidding, that's like solder don't use it
That's exaclty what I was thinking. Tin and lead are in solder and if you have ever soldered an electrical circuit you know that the smoke it gives off is not going to be good for your lungs. Get a glass bowl or get some zigzags,.... possibly?

[moeburn]

That's exaclty what I was thinking. Tin and lead are in solder and if you have ever soldered an electrical circuit you know that the smoke it gives off is not going to be good for your lungs. Get a glass bowl or get some zigzags,.... possibly?
duuuuuuude do you really think your soldering iron is hot enough to VAPOURIZE either of those metals. No. The toxic smoke coming from solder isn't lead or tin, its flux. Flux will kill you much faster than lead.

[ezjim]

is a tin pipe or a lead pipe harmfull to smoke out of? the material is 60% tin 40% lead
brass and stainless steel is the only safe metals for making pipes if you dont have tese then glass or wood is a good alternitive onyx or soap stone are also acceptable material's as well

[moeburn]

brass and stainless steel is the only safe metals for making pipes if you dont have tese then glass or wood is a good alternitive onyx or soap stone are also acceptable material's as well
Aluminum is fine too, but if you're using aluminum foil, its probably best to burn off the extra coatings first.

[slipknotpsycho]

aluminum supposedly causes (or atleast helps induce) alzhimers disease later on in life.


on a side note i'll probably not remember any of you when i'm about 60 or so, since i smoked out of this shit alot as a child.

[moeburn]

Seriously? I had never heard of that. I guess it would be a good idea to go out and buy a damn pipe then.

[Satovan]

Lead paint chips are delicious when you have the munchies though.

[dirty raider]

I'd stick to a glass or a stone peice if at all possible.

[partyguy420]

Lead paint chips are delicious when you have the munchies though.


man that is sum funnie shit...

[Leonard12]

soapstone can be smoekd out of. i have some of that from when i was younger. its so easy to carve out of. i could make a nice pipe out of soapstone. soapstone is expensive tho.

[moeburn]

What about that clay stuff that you can mold like playdoh, and then bake in the oven and it turns into stone hard? I think its called Fimo and Sculpy or something...

[Nullific]

Fimo and Sculpey arn't safe to smoke out of either, some websites seem to be selling them though and some people use it to just decorate their pieces but not to form the actual bowl.

[moeburn]

Rats.

[slipknotpsycho]

yea if you see a "fimo" pipe it's just the decoration on it that they are talking about, and yes i'm serious aluminum=bad, when i look at my grandparents and see what alzhimers can do, i vowed never to smoke outta that shit again.