I have a stove top distiller. You will find that the steam will quickly heat up your "condenser" collector and become a whole room steamer. Keeping the collector cool is a challenge. The device I have uses another pot filled with cold water as the collector. By the time you have distilled a quart, the water in the cooling pot is hot.
Jim Meissner www.MeissnerResearch.com -----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 3:27 PM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: CS>Distiller Idea? Was: Waterwise Non-Electric Distiller Silvia writes: > Has anyone used this unit to make their distilled water? > http://www.canningpantry.com/waterwise-1600.html If so what were the > pros and cons? That's an interesting item, Silvia. Too bad we don't have anybody with experience with it. I'd be interested, too. I'd recently thought about building some kind of stove-top distiller, since natural gas is still relatively cheap and I could keep it running on the stove most days. We're spending a buck a gallon for distilled and go through 20 gallons a month or more. I wonder if the 16 gallon stock pot with glass lid I saw at the store the other day would be useful as a distiller? I could invert the domed glass lid, moving the knob to the "wrong" side and put a collection vessel inside on top of a wire grate or metal stand. The steam should condense on the lid and run down into the collector. There's a small vent hole in the lid. I expect at least some of the volatiles would escape through the vent. If the collection vessel overflows, no big deal. I'd want the collector to have a wire handle on it, like the kind on a paint bucket, so I could lift it out with a hot mitt and pour off the contents... maybe a teapot? Hmmm... sounds like a $50 project versus a $350 product. Comments or suggestions anyone? Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- 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>
