It would seem everything old becomes new again, trying to re-invent the wheel.
Scrub pads vs paper towel vs whatever else one may choose in cleaning their
electrodes, I know my preference, and it isn't steel or plastic scrub pads, not
that it really matters a hoot in the grand scheme of things on the home front,
it's a kitchen they are producing this stuff in, not a sterile climate
controlled laboratory environment. {opinion}
OK, paper towel may have some salt residue or whatever else as a result of the
manufacturing process, but then scrub pads, and I'll assume stainless steel
pads for one example, contains any number of things, chromium, nickel etc etc.
There is no way I will accept that in the electrode scrubbing process there
will not be some contaminants ground into the silver electrode, besides the
excessive abrasive effect on that electrode from scrubbing. Similarly with the
"plastic?" scrub pads, what contaminants are being ground into the electrodes
from the plastic during that scrubbing process, besides the added surface
imperfections created on those electrodes from scrubbing? And I don't believe
any of that can be eliminated simply by washing electrodes in DW? Electrodes
should be kept as smooth and imperfection free as possible I would have
thought. Even after probably the first batch produced using brand new
electrodes those electrodes will not be smooth anymore, why would anyone want
to compound that?
Where, and for what purpose are most producing their EIS? I thought it was
predominantly the home kitchen LVDC production method used by most here, and
for general use by all and sundry for all and sundry health purposes? If not,
then there's one reason new folk don't join or stick around long maybe, it goes
over their heads as simple home producers? I don't have a need to know the
complexities in the chemistry involved, all I want/need to know is the basics
and I can take it from there by research to my satisfaction.
As for Jasons comment about nobody responding or stagnation or new ideas or
whatever, I posted something several months ago about fall out. I filtered
that batch and within days more fall out was observed, I filtered it a second
time and again *still* got some plating or fall out on the bottom of my storage
vessel a day or three later...??? And I think the "fall out" or plate out was
in the *centre* of the vessel. No answers were forthcoming from memory, but my
memory isn't what it once was either so I guess someone will put me right on
that. I put it down to a bad batch of DW, among other "unknowns?" and NO, I
don't bother testing the DW prior to production any more, did plenty of that
over a time before and don't see a need to do it for an eternity for my
purposes. As well as it perhaps being a bad batch of DW from manufacture I
reckon the stir bar action had something to do with it, {strange forces in
nature or physics of which I fail to comprehend} mainly because the fallout
from memory was only in the *centre* of the vessel as opposed to a general
spread? Strange goings on indeed?
So there's something new of which I have never heard of or observed before?
This had never happened before in over 10 years of my involvement with this
stuff, and has not been repeated since? I'm curious to know what was going on
at *that* time?
Perhaps you could help me out here with this one Jason?
Back to the pads, perhaps someone can tell me then why scrubbing pads
would/should be considered preferable to paper towel, or even toilet paper for
that matter? I can live with the minuscule amount of salt residue from paper,
but I won't live with the metals in stainless steel or poly-whatever it's
called in plastic.
N.
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:02:37 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: CS>Forum
>
> Hi Mary:
>
> There is really no need to do anything but rinse whatever scrub pad you
> are using with distilled water.
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Jason
>
> On 2/17/2015 6:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> >
> > Jason I have always wondered about cleaning the electrodes I thought
> > that you could clean with paper towels but I wondered about residue.
> > So how do you go about cleaning them with steel wool??? Do you pull
> > off part of the steel wool and discard or just use the whole piece?
> > How do you clean the steel wool?
> > Mary-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 2/16/15,
> > Jason <[email protected]> wrote:
