You may wish to use stainless tube. The water will dissolve the copper and you will have water with a lot of copper in it.
James-Osbourne: Holmes -----Original Message----- From: Ronald Wilson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 4:48 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Re: distilled water for cs A very easy and all purpose still can be put together with a presser cooker and length of soft copper tubing. Tubing is bought large enough to just fit over the presser control tube extending up from cover. Make a bend close to top of control tube in copper tubing so steam is directed downward and tubing is coiled so gravity controls flow. Let drip into a container. For water no need to seal tubing to control tube as velocity of steam will make the bend before condensing. It should lift on and off easily. Bring water to boil with out coil in place, vent some steam. turn heat down, to control steam velocity through the small presser control tube. This is a open system allowing presser to relive through coil, to high of heat could build some presser and high steam velocity. You want low heat just enough to give steam. Set coil in place. Easy does it. Throw away first batch, it cleaned your new tubing. Lived in desert years ago where water was haled many miles and was loaded with calcium and phosphates Had spent hundreds of dollars on fancy automatic still but deposits made it impractical. Could not keep it clean. found 16 qt. presser canner in thrift store for 25 dollars and made this still, worked great. always left some water in it to be dumped as it had the concentrated crap in it, prevented buildup. Used propane, fire wood, and charcoal to power it. Used it on extended camping trips also. Use any water available. Regular small pressure cooker works same way. Be fine for small amounts. I modified the large one by fitting a bigger exit tube on lid for greater steam flow. Can be used to make old western rattle snake bite medicine with slight chance in method. ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Osbourne, Holmes" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 12:55 PM Subject: RE: CS>Re: distilled water for cs > Two likely problems come to mind. > > 1. The ultrasonic device creates minute droplets but the droplets contain > dissolved and particulate matter. A still vaporizes the water, leaving most > particulates behind. Only the very light molecules, such as some organics > and dissolved gases will rise with the steam. > > 2. Even if the device produced almost pure water vapor, the yield is a > function of how much water is vaporized; the power input is relatively low. > The water yield will be the same as the water lost from the reservoir, so > you could determine how long it would take to make pure water by how long it > takes the device to use up the water. > > James-Osbourne: Holmes > > -----Original Message----- > From: Grant [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 9:17 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: CS>Re: distilled water for cs > > Hmmmmm... > That's a very interesting comment..Would an ultrasonic humidifier > produce good quality "Distilled Water"???... > Grant.. > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > Distilled water is also produced by a dehumidifier isn't it? > > Leacy > > Life is Good! > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > > -- > > 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] > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> >
