Hello Silver Sippers, We have, I think, a brand spanking new CS generator. Boy, was I glad to have all of your information to read over and over as I waited and waited and waited ...40 minutes in all... for those bubbles to start happening. I didn't have any CS to seed the DW with, and...
I decided on the chopsticks over the 2 cup measuring glass design, with the three batteries locked on to each other. I like chopsticks. I thought they might give the design an aesthetic appeal I needed, although it didn't turn out that way. I didn't have the miliampere meter because I found the idea intimidating, as I find electricity in general, ...and I was under the mistaken impression it was expensive, until I re-read one of the postings to the list as I waited. I hope to get the meter before I get to batch three. The silver wires were just a bit short to do what I had originally intended to do, even though I got 10 inches.... (I'm also making a CS maker for a friend, and ordered double the wire) ...and wrapping the silver around the chopstick seemed to make them just a bit short for comfort. So I decided to drill holes in the chopstick 1 1/2" apart, and just crinkle the silver to keep it from falling into the water. (Good idea (?) even if I did surprise myself and drill all the way through the cutting board I was using to save my kitchen table. Oh well, the dent is awfully small...) Well, that worked after a fashion, but the wires were terribly wiggly when I switched the electrodes to reverse the polarity, and keeping them parallel was more of a hassle than it should have been. Later I wrapped the wired tightly around the chopstick (first through the hole, then around...saved a bit of wire) and they were then stabilized. When 40 minutes went by before the first bubble appeared, I thought I was going to have to report that I had failed you. I began kicking myself that I hadn't bought a generator from someone off of the list. The prices are so reasonable, hardly any more than making a generator with a miliampere oneself... Finally, I saw some action, and began the timing. Greyish 'threads' appeared at the ends of the electrodes that I confused with the black stuff I knew I shouldn't let touch the other electrode, and when one would get good and developed I would reverse polarity... Then, I was gazing at the water on top and saw a lovely, dark, multicolored feather spreading across .... Ack! It was a feathery looking thing stretching almost to the next electrode... I whacked it with a spare chopstick, and then ran the chopstick up and down the electrode just in case another one was set to rip off. I begain reversing polarity about every 12 minutes. I could see the golden reddish wisps around the wires. I had thought that the wire that I designated as red, coming off of the positive node of the battery, would be the active wire. I was surprised to see that the electrode attached to the negative node was the one that really got active. Another surprise was that when I switched polarity, both wires wisped golden simultaneously for a good while. After about an hour and a half, I turned around from washing dishes and noticed that one of the wires had a lot of black stuff all around it, the other some amount less. It had been my hope that I would switch polarities enough to avoid that, but I decided not to chance it, and removed the wires and wiped them clean with a paper towel, and ran the mix another 1/2 hour. I gave the whole mixture two hours in all once I began timing (16 oz water, 3 9V batteries, 3 1/2" 14 guage wire in the water, 1/ 1/2" apart). It was turning a nice, light golden color, so I hope two hours was enough. There was some black stuff in the water from when I whacked the feather, and so I decided to filter the CS afterall, and poured it into a collection of used Futurebiotics CS bottles (cobalt). Tomorrow I'll look at the droppersful and see how the color equates to Futurebiotics, because I am used to that color. Next batch I'll send off to Robert for testing. I put some on a sponge that had some mold growing on it, and the mold faded a bit, but didn't disappear like it would have with bleach. Is that normal? Gee, I hope I have CS. Thanks to everyone for all their help. Reading all of the postings was a great way to stay "grounded" whilst at sea in electricity. Best wishes Taylor That stuff ended up looking unfriendly in the water, and so in the end I filtered the CS afterall. -- 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]>
