Ken, As to availability of our candle filters in the U.S., this purifier is a new size and shape for us and so far we've only made about a dozen. And as with a printing press, where one tosses the first 50 or so copies, it'll be a little while before we sort out the bugs. Considering our priorities perhaps we could get some candles there by June or July.
Also, since the candles are designed for labor intensive production I am imagining that ceramists in the U.S. may want to think twice before manufacturing them. On the other hand I do believe it should be all together possible for any folks in the U.S. who want to use a CS saturated candle filter, to purchase other types available there and use them. I believe that candle filters should be available inexpensively, perhaps well under $5.00. I believe that even around developing countries these offer a viable alternative. But one thing is that the sellers are mostly intent on people buying the whole system and not just the candle. They generally come in purpose built containers and may run upto about $50 or $100 with the entire system. So one needs to ask for a replacement filter. And many of these are not CS saturated to begin with. On the other hand it should be possible to buy a candle filter there, then saturate it. For our most recent microbiological tests here we used, for each candle, 150 ml. of ~100ppm CS. In Central America makers of a larger size filter element saturate with the Mexican CS Microdyn, diluted way down, but I think that in the U.S. it should be possible, for example to saturate four or five times with ~20ppm CS, drying the candle between each time saturating. And for people intent on not paying $50 for a whole system it should be possible to adapt the candles to plastic buckets. I've heard that in parts of Canada there have been big problems due to bacteria contamianted water and I think the candle approach may be a good alternative. Still, the folks who do water supply bend over backwards to convince people on the importance of piping water from a pure source, and they revile the household approach, no money in it for them. But I believe it should really be well worth the effort to take this approach. Reid Ode Coyote wrote: Is there a way to buy one of these candles in the USA? Ken At 08:29 AM 3/9/02 +0600, you wrote: >CS Enthusiasts >Two months in the making our new equipment has just been delivered by >the machine shop. So very soon we should be producing thousands of low >cost, earthenware candles monthly. Have a look at the new link: >http://www.geocities.com/earthenwarecandle/ >Bye for now. >Reid -- 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]>
