Plastic in stills

[Lorax]

I posted a reply in the materials to build a still twice and each time my post has been deleted (lucky i saved a copy elsewhere 2nd time)? So I will post it in its own topic. Am I being edited for a reason?

Im gonna throw some fuel on the plastics fire:P

Seems every community has somthing they demonise, here it is plastic. Who drinks from a plastic water bottle? This has plasticisers in it, as do most things, even alot of alcohol has plastic incontact with the liquid somwhere in the design. Now I respect that as your exposed to plasticisers on a regular basis you may choose to not want it in your alcohol. But hear me out. Polypropylene is a plastic that shows resistance to ethanol, infact its one of many. Yes you will get some plasticisers in your product but you will also get copper in your product if you use a copper tube to carry your distillate, in both cases the quantity is likely to be negligable. You know that "new smell", thats you getting a big burst of plasticisers.

Im a chemists and have a chemist friend who built his still outta poly pipe, that makes it cheap and he has had no problems. So perhaps instead of demonising all plastic you could just direct people to ones which are safe for use.

* I tried to post this before and had included a link to chemical resistivity of polypropylene but it didnt work and now I cant be arsed finding it again, google will return many hits to polypropylene resistivity.