Wet stainless tumbling waste

What do y’all do with the water from wet stainless tumbling? I am using this to clean suppressor baffles and brass.

Drink it, it fights coronavirus

Goes down the drain into my septic system and back into the ground eventually

I put it down the house drain, it probably has a bit of lead and maybe some mercury and antimony in it, but probably as solids and not dissolved. I boil off the “dip” I use for suppressor baffles, but there is way too much water volume to do that for brass cleaning.

I think I killed a small tree with mine. Serious

Anybody else? I don't have a ton of waste water because I don't do a lot of tumbling. But I'm thinking about trying to evaporate the water and bag the solids for the hazardous waste dropoff. I definitely do not use the dip.

Climberman said:

Anybody else? I don't have a ton of waste water because I don't do a lot of tumbling. But I'm thinking about trying to evaporate the water and bag the solids for the hazardous waste dropoff. I definitely do not use the dip.

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Better yet, run the water thru a Katadyne or Brita and use it to water your flowers

Mine goes down the drain since I rinse in my large kitchen sink. Ideal? No, but I don’t think I’m killing anything by doing this either.

Seriously......there's more lead in pipes connected to old water systems than there probably is in wet tumbling waste. What do you guys think water treatment plants do?

Ikarus1 said:

Seriously......there's more lead in pipes connected to old water systems than there probably is in wet tumbling waste. What do you guys think water treatment plants do?

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That's a good point.

You can pour it into clumping cat litter.

Pour it in the back yard.

JohnFreeman said:

Pour it in the back yard.

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Pour it in your neighbor's [emoji1]

It's downhill to his yard, it'll get there directly!

Ikarus1 said:

Seriously......there's more lead in pipes connected to old water systems than there probably is in wet tumbling waste. What do you guys think water treatment plants do?

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Ask the people in Flint.

There is also the heavy metal mercury in there, that is worse for people than the lead.

AR10ShooterinNC said:

There is also the heavy metal mercury in there, that is worse for people than the lead.

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In every upper level of fish food chain as well. Pregnant women and children should only dri k it twice a week

I dump it in the yard by the water hose.