Hello, listers; I would just like to run my procedure for making CS over you, and see if you can see anything I am doing wrong.
I have got a lot of my friends taking CS. I am making it for them, and giving it to them. So now, instead of just making it for myself, I am making it for myself and about 9 other people. The CS generator I had bought was very good when I was just making it for myself, but when I started providing it for my friends, I had to come up with another way of making it in volume. This is what I came up with: I bought a GE 4 quart slow cooker. Using the lid as a template, I cut that lid shape out of 1/8’’ plexiglass. In middle of the plexiglass, about 1 1/2’’ apart, I cut two holes, large enough for 2 Canadian Maple Leaf Dollars (.9999 silver) to go into. I made the holes just large enough so that part of the Maple Leaf dollar could stick up, but all of the dollar could not be pulled up through it. Then I got a AC-DC converter (from 120 v. ac to 24 volts dc); cut the end off of it, and attached two alligator clips to it thence to the coins. I also put a bubbler in the side of the lid. Every three hours, I try to clean the Maple Leaf dollars. After about 6 hours, I stop the process, and strain the CS through a coffee filter ( first, I run a glass full of distilled water through the coffee filter). Normally, I get a reading of about 15 ppm with a Hanna tester, which after agglomeration is about 10-12 ppm. It is always clear. Doing it this way, I can make about a gallon of clear, 10-12 ppm CS every 6 hours. Specifically, my questions are: (1). Is the plexiglass material sufficient to serve as a lid to the CS ( will the CS react with plexiglass? So far as I can tell, it does not, but I want to make sure. Once the temperature gets high enough, the plexiglass will warp, but what Iam worried about is could the CS react with the plexiglass causing compounds that I should not be drinking.) (2). Is the temperature too high. When I turn the crock pot on warm, it keeps the temperature at about 140 degrees F. Is that too high? (3). I clean the silver dollars first with a kleenex , and then brush it with a detail brush, and then wipe it with a Scot Brite cloth. The first time, I even cleaned the silver dollars by dunking them into a silver jewelry cleaner, and then cleaning them in the above manner. Is this method of cleaning OK? The dollars look very shiny when I do. (4). Filterring. I read in some of the archives, that there might be a possibility of some kind of contaminants coming through the coffee filter. How big a danger would this be? I always have some "crud" in the bottom of the crock pot, or some what appears to be silver stuff floating . I feel that I have to filter it someway. I am relatively new to making CS, and I just want to make sure that what I am doing is not going to produce some compound that is harmful to my body. Thanking you in advance. Carl
