One of my F&T tin was doing a little scratchy noise when I used to open and close the lid. I tried to clean it up with a tissue and discovered a significant amount of aluminum dust on the tissue. Same thing when you clean the inside of the lid. Kind of disgusting if this falls off into the snuff.
I checked other tins too and even for those that close rather smoothly they all have a certain amount of aluminum dust that accumulate from the friction generated by closing/opening the lid repeatedly.
What do you think, can that be harmful if this dust gets into your body?
This has come up several times over the years so it is clearly a long term and ongoing issue with their cans. Aluminium is harmful if you were to ingest large amounts over long periods of time but this is far too little to have harmed you. What I do strongly suggest though is that you contact WoS and tell them about it - they really ought to refund you without further ado…
I doubt the quantities of aluminium oxide involved would present any serious issues. If you are particularly worried, lubricating the threads with some vaseline or light oil would arrest the problem.
Good idea thanks. On the tin that was not closing well I got a pretty thick coating all over my fingers. My main concern was if some would fall off in the snuff and end up in my lungs.
I’ll just sniff the aluminum powder along with the snuff lol, like Snuffster said, far too little to harm us. We probably breathe in shit like this every day
aluminium gets a bad rap there are lots of worse things that also do not cause dementia of any sort (unless it’s in the form of a baseball bat but that is a diffrent story.)