Ted Burgis wrote: > Everyone seems to have a different opinion!!
Damn right!! > Small dc units are no good, as the particle size is too small. Or too big! <grin> > Cook for only 20 minutes. > Cook for an hour. Depending upon temperature and what concetration you're trying to reach, yes! > Time the cooking only after a "white cloud" appears. Unless you're using salt, wherein the cloud begins to form immediately! <GRIN> > Wipe your electrodes. > Use cold water. > Use only distilled water. > Use double-distilled water. > Use hot water for a smaller particle size. All of these are useful advice in certain circumstances! > The 3 - 9 volt batteries won't give a high enough concentration to > do any good. Only the high-voltage a.c. units will give the proper > concentration. Yellow c.s. is no good. C.s. is not good unless it > has turned yellow. On and on. And so you have capsulized the marketing hype conflict between the producers of LVDC and HVAC units, and between those who advocate salt versus no-salt recipes in low voltage systems. Guess what!? As near as we can tell here, they're all making stuff that works. It's just way too easy to get confused by mixing portions of one recipe with parts of another to which they don't apply. > I don't even bother making the stuff anymore, there is so much > confusion about the preparation. I understand your confusion, Ted, and I'm sorry. The trick is to pick *one* method from one source and try it. Then try another, or vary the first a little bit at a time as you gain experience. > I would really like to be able to use it, but it seems that no one > can agree on how to make it properly, a.c. or d.c., high or > low-voltage, color, etc. That's because, basically, they all seem to work pretty well, with there being some adherents and critics of each, all without a really convincing body of hard data to back them up. (Not to say there's no data at all, but we've still a ways to go, eh?!) > Does anyone have a standard or are we just spending time and money > uselessly? One of the fundamental goals I have is to produce and *analyse* as extensively as I can afford, several "standard" recipes. This is so that we can tell you "Do do this, that, and then this, and you'll get approximately these results..." The biggest problem right now is most of the instructions you can find tend to be at least a little vague in some detail or another. This does *not* lead to confidence! *That* is one reason why there is a silver list, to help fill in those gaps for you. We do need to learn what sort of particle size distributions, concentrations, and bioactivity characteristics are produced by the various competing techniques, and hopefully find ways to easily and accurately measure them. These efforts may eventually get expensive, and will certainly be time consuming, but they need to be done if CS is ever to benefit as many people as it should. The bottom line is, we've a good number of folks who *are* getting good results from their CS. They are *not* trying to sell you anything and have no motive for telling you about it other than to help. *These* folks are the reason I'm looking at CS and will continue to do so until I'm satisfied. I hope you don't abandon the effort. If you need CS to work, I want you to be able to succeed. We can start again to layout something that will work, according to the combined (and sometimes conflicting) experience of all of us on the list. It really isn't as hard as has been made to look, I think. Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
