Distilled water dissolves copper. You may get toxic amounts of cu in the water and holes in the condenser fairly quickly.
James-Osbourne: Holmes -----Original Message----- From: Theodore Corbett [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 2:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Water Distiller I don't see a reason why you couldn't use copper tubing as long as your distilling drinking water. In my house the plumbing for the hot and cold water is copper pipe. I just recently tested my water and one of the tests was for copper and the test came out negative and the copper pipe is at least 15 years old! If you go to one of the home brewing supply houses on the web they sell 3/8" and 1/2" coiled copper tubing that would be perfect for a distiller. They use them to cool the wurt when brewing beer. They run between $20.00 to $50.00. They also have high temp plastic tubing. If you need a couple URL's for the home brew sites let me know. Ted Corbett --- "Dean T. Miller" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:26:34 -0500, Marshall Dudley > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >I wonder if you could take copper tubing, and run > some silver nitrate through > >it. The inside would plate with silver and might > make a good tubing for the > >condenser once you washed out all the silver > nitrate. > > If you could guarantee the silver plate, then it > would be fine. But > using copper tubing for distilling drinking water > might not be very > good. One of the problems with old moonshine was > that it contained a > very high concentration of copper, which is toxic in > larger amounts. > (Copper is, of course, required by the body, but the > body doesn't get > rid of excess copper very well.) > > -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF > > > -- > 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]> > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com
