Careful What You Buy

[muddog]

Needed some copper scrubies to put in the bottom of my parrot, so I wouldn't break my alcometer, if (when) I was careless and dropped it.
Stopped by the dollar store and got some magical copper scrubies.
I 've heard the Chinese are the only ones that know how to give copper this magical ability.
I never seen any such thing in my life. I held a 100 pennies to a magnet 1 at a time and could not one would stick to it.
Lo and behold these chinese copper scubies will stick to a magnet .
The reason I did this was I was talkin to a fella and he said his scubies were turnin black. That ain't right. So it got me to thinkin.
Okay, now to be serious, first off I have to ask how this is allowed to happen? The Chinese send up all kinds of crap ,you really can't be sure what it is.
All I 'm sayin is be careful what you buy and where it came from.
If you can, test it whatever way you can. I used a simple magnet to gain valuable information.
As you can see here.

[thecroweater]

yep well they must have some cruizey quality controls over yonder, seen stainless from the same general place rust faster than pig iron. Don't know about you fella's but I miss the days we still made stuff and were accountable for it , jus sayin

[SoMo]

Scotch brite stainless scrubbies are pure but not copper.