Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
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Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
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Re: Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
#2Funny how even before being consumed by their adopters it has already contaminated their brain and making them think they are something just because of a product.
Re: Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
#3Funny how even before being consumed by their adopters it has already contaminated their brain and making them think they are something just because of a product.
Whoa. Alternate take: people are having fun with a silly cup? It’s a meme in physical form.
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#4Beautiful imagery in this article!
It doesn’t reveal anything the world didn’t already know, though. There is lead, but it is within the sealed inner chamber of the cup. It isn’t accessible to drinkers.
Still, doesn’t seem wise to use lead in such a popular drinking device. With the millions sold, it’s hard to imagine there not being a few defects.
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#5Weren't there some other studies that found lead on the inside drinking surface?
I had assumed maybe it was the manufacturing process, maybe lead in the environment(from the solder), then some vapors condensing on the inside surface.?
Re: Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
#6Beautiful imagery in this article! It doesn’t reveal anything the world didn’t already know, though. There is lead, but it is within the sealed inner chamber of the cup. It isn’t accessible to drinkers. Still, doesn’t seem wise to use lead in such a popular drinking device. With the millions sold, it’s hard to imagine there not being a few defects.
Absolute science like this, with x-ray imagery, does reveal, or rather, confirm what we needed to know. Independent verification is an important part of the process and shouldn't be discounted.
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#7Why is lead illegal to use in consumer electronics solder than no one eats off of (EU/RoHS), but acceptable for food cutlery like this?
Why is lead so advantageous for sealing vacuum chambers that a manufacturer would risk all this backlash? Do simple epoxy glues not work?
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#8Reminds me of the scandal when Sigg water bottles were found to be painted inside with a BPA-containing varnish. At least here the lead is not in direct contact with the drink, although any manufacturing process involving lead can potentially suffer from cross-contamination.
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#9I have the same problem with this as with retro youtubers using lead solder.
Consumers are not the only ones that matter
The people working in the factoriesare exposed to lead. The people at the mines are exposed to lead. The people in shuttered ghost towns like Pitcher Oklahoma are exposed to lead. The people transporting lead are exposed to lead. People working in recycling or waste management or landfills are exposed to lead. Lead is not good to put into the manufacturing stream or the waste stream. By continuing to create demand you are continuing to put lead in the environment in forms where it gets into humans and damages their brains.
Re: Finding lead in Stanley's Quencher
#10Funny how even before being consumed by their adopters it has already contaminated their brain and making them think they are something just because of a product.
Whoa. Alternate take: people are having fun with a silly cup? It’s a meme in physical form.
It's a meme you're spending money on.
Meme transmission is a kind of peer pressure, the entire thing seems prickly to me from a moral perspective. I for one don't appreciate being pressured to spend money on things I don't need or want.