Hi! Just to set your mind at rest, I don't drink softened water. When soft water is distilled, the softener salt is removed. I think the problem is that I sent a partial post about distilling water. Somehow the computer I was using refused to put any more of my post on. I sent it anyway. Later I posted the full problem I was dealing with. Thanks for your concern, Optimal Life.
From Ruth Strackbein
From: "4optimallife" <4optimall...@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: CS>Unidentified subject!
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 16:41:02 -0500
>If you must drink softened water, it is better to use potassium
>rather than the sodium to soften the water. Costs about $1 a bag
>more. You may have to search a bit for it.
>
>Kallie
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>>You're not supposed to DRINK the water from a water softener.
>>Bad for the heart.
>>I believe the salts they use are the problem.
>>
>>Anyway, this got proved to me one year when a neighbor showed me
>>his
>>tomato seedlings. He wondered why they were doing so poorly.
>>It turned out that he was using water from the softener he had
>>installed that year.
>>
>>Fine for washing, showering etc. but NOT drinking or other living
>>things!
>>
>>Chuck
>>
>>I'm not loafing--I work so fast I'm always finished.
>>
>>On 1/4/2006 8:59:22 PM, ruth strackbein
>>(ruthstrackb...@hotmail.com)
>>wrote:
>>>From Ruth Strackbein, Something went awry in sending my last post.
>>>I
>>>didn't get it finished. Later started again and that post wouldn't
>>>send.
>>>Will try again. As with my previous post, I now have a working
>>>water
>>>distiller again. However, have been encouraged to use softened
>>>water
>>>instead of hard water which I had used before the repair. The
>>>machine used
>>>to get covered inside, sides, bottom, and the black rodes that run
>>>through
>>>it, with hard material. Would have to use vinegar in the machine
>>>periodically to clean the stuff out. Now the hard material
>>>doesn't seem to accumulate, but the rods do have a whitish
>>>coating, especially the lower curved shorter rod. The local man
>>>whose family sells these midi-stills, wondered if my water
>>>softener is working as it should. I live alone and the machine
>>>regenerates every other day. At present it is regenerating during
>>>the day. I just make sure I don't
>>>do laundry or bath when it is regenerating. My question is, how
>>>can I tell
>>>if my water is really ideally soft on a regular basis? How would
>>>the use
>>>of hard or soft water affect CS making? Thanks. Ruth
>>>
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