Thread Evolution!!!
Wow! I'm glad I posted this thread!
I was just looking to make the brass biologically safe for me to handle.
What I learned:
rcmodel told me that bleach will tarnish brass badly.
kerreckt reminded me that the FDA permits lots of rat droppings in our food. Geez
kerreckt! Right before lunch?!?
armoredman has a recipe for rat poop flambé.
RussellC might possibly pass on the brass if it was infested with the plague.
Schwing says damn the torpedoes... just tumble with a little mineral spirits.
243winxb points out that ammonia from the urine that we were not initially thinking about is a worse problem that can’t be solved with disinfecting.
splattergun is the first to mention a specific pathogen, hantavirus. So do as he says and break out the nitrile gloves and the dust mask.
RusellC pipes up again saying that barring hemorrhagic fever he’s ready for me to send him the brass. Do you think he might consider paying the postage?
mbopp advises that a 10% bleach bath kills EVERYTHING!
gamestalker who is admittedly OC, suggests acetone or a less expensive soaking in 91% alcohol. Do you think that we would trade his
OCD for my
CRS (Can’t Remember Poop)?
jinxer made an astute observation that the poster who suggested using the sink could not possibly be married!
blarby says breathe deep because it’s already too late!
4895 has a plan - see it in post #20 . His lunch was also made less appetizing by the multiple mentioning of the rat poop permitted in our food.
LAGS laments that it wasn’t Bat Guano (aka Goonie) instead of rat poop as an ecological solution to the current powder shortage. Goonie, really goonie???
Comedians
kelbro and
morcey2 added some more humor to the mix.
stubbicat who must be walking in high cotton and eating high off the hog is looking down on us cheap so-and-so brass scroungers.
jerkface11 is either not married or won’t be for long if mamma sees that suggestion. Another possibility is that he is married and his wife gave him that screen name.
BigG figures to make it the public’s problem by using a Laundromat.
jcwit holds BigG’s feet to the fire on that one!
Kudos and honorable mention to all the other posters….. Sabe