James Sullivan wrote: > > Hi Bob! > > >Mixing the coins (your silver electrodes) with other things may cause > >other materials to rub on to them. I would wash them with a weak dish > >washing detergent to remove any grease and then give a short soak in > >baking soda to remove any film they may have. They should be stored by > >themselves in a clean zip lock bag. > > Ok, I'll try that. Any particular mixture of the baking soda in water?
I just pour some soda in a bowl and add some warm water, stir it up a bit and put what I`m cleaning in the bowl. > > I have used polyethylene (PE), but prefer HDPE (high density PE). > >Always make and store my CS in HDPE containers. No glass, polystyrene, > >PVC, PP, or PET plastics. The HDPE is a UV blocker and resistant to UV, > >have stored water in them for years out in the sun with no deterioration > >of the HDPE plastic. Have some HDPE bottles that have been in the sun > >now over ten years and they are as good as new. They hate them in land > >fills, never rot away. The plastic soda pop bottles (2 liter) are HDPE > >plastic. I would never use the plastic one gal milk bottles. They are > >PP, polypropylene, and are poor performers in UV light (sun light). > >Light itself will not affect CS, but sun light will because of the UV in > >it. CS in a HDPE container can be stored in sunlight with no effect on > >the CS, (if the temperature does not go up). Thats another subject. > > The PP plastic milk jugs that distilled water come in are OK for > >distilled water, but not for CS storage. > > Most of the one gal ice cream buckets are HDPE, the nice ones with > >handles on them, (all the ones I`ve seen) and make great containers for > >making CS. > > HDPE is the prefered food grade plastic, since it is so non-reactive > >with anything and UV resistant. Of course HDPE along with any plastic is > >not good to use with any hydrocarbon compounds (petroleum products), > >they need to be in *barrier bottles*. > > This is a bit confusing, first of all how do you know which plastic > you've got from all the ones you mention. Secondly, Hulda Clark > mentioned the hard, clear plastic bottles as the ones that continually > leak toxins into whatever is stored in them. I presume she's referring > to the hard clear plastic bottles soda comes in today. Is that HDPE, > and what of the effects of the plasticizer that is leaking into the CS > from them? Another list member told me the baby bottles made of the > hard plastic were taken off the market. Were they HDPE as well? You can`t go by how they look, most plastics come in clear or opaque versions. How they react to different chemicals is how you identify them. Hulda Clark never indicated what plastics she was speaking of. Food grade plastics don`t leech into the product, wouldn`t be food grade if they did ,would they. A lot of construction materials (plastic stuff) give off fumes and leech out, but they are not used for food handling. The baby bottles you speak of were PVC plastic and definitely not food grade. They were manufactured overseas, and have been banned from importation. One gal milk bottles and one gal distilled water bottles are not HDPE, they are PP. Bless you Bob Lee -- oozing on the muggy shore of the gulf coast [email protected] -- 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]>
