That is 1/2 the story Ode Coyote, I have had 4 very good distillers over the years, in each case the elements get full of corrosion and deteriorate and no way of cleaning them after they are worn out, so you bye new ones, (at the cost of the original distiller) So you buy a better one, same thing happens and so on. Bottom line unless your making cs for sale on a large volume, it is cheaper to buy distilled water at a good source, Check the dissolved solids count of mineral in your Distilled water before you use it. ( a Hanna tester is not too expensive) google it, I get mine at Walgreens Drug, last year they were high in dissolved solids, and most of us quit them & wrote the co. letters, they changed mgf. and its back to between 1.5 and 3,5 ppm. on TDS tester. $65 cents is pretty cheap for a gallon of Colloidal Silver now days.
Tel Tofflemire Dewey, AZ. --- On Thu, 7/16/09, Ode Coyote <odecoy...@windstream.net> wrote: From: Ode Coyote <odecoy...@windstream.net> Subject: Re: CS>water distiller question To: silver-list@eskimo.com Date: Thursday, July 16, 2009, 3:13 AM Try 68 cents a gallon sometimes. No way electricity would cost that much to distill water !! [..not like I know what it costs in the UK....really? ] Have you tried battery water from the auto parts store? it takes about 3 kilowatt hours to make a gallon of distilled water. A kilowatt = 1000 watts, a kilowatt hour is 1000 watts per hour. The power company sells you electricity by the kilowatt; the average kilowatt cost is about 8-10 cents. Since the distiller will use three kilowatt hours to make a gallon of water the cost is about 24 cents per gallon. That's a whole lot cheaper than bottled water. http://arrowheadcutlery.com/healthcraft/faq.htm Ode At 11:39 AM 7/15/2009 +0100, you wrote: > A dollar a gallon!! Ours here in the UK is more like $28 per gallon! And > that can't be bought at a store - it has to be sent off for. I still think I > am better doing this though, because a) the water is so pure, and b) it > would probably cost me more in electricity to do my own! Then there's the > cost of the distiller of course, and it may not be so pure when I've done > it. dee > > On 14 Jul 2009, at 19:57, <mailto:cking...@nycap.rr.com>cking...@nycap.rr.com > wrote: > >> I have ALWAYS used grocery market distilled water. Always bought the >> cheapest (currently from WallMart). >> Been doing this for over a decade...no problems. >> >> Could never understand anyone wanting to spend the money on fuel to >> home-distill, besides heating up the house needlessly also. >> >> I know some in other countries cannot find distilled to buy, so they >> HAVE a reason, but for less than a dollar a gallon, I'll go to the >> market. >> >> Chuck >> Nature abhors a vacuum. So does my sister's dog. >> -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com>
