Distilled water is extremely corrosive. I think stainless steel will contaminate the water with metallic ions. Condensation should be done I believe with pyrex or quartz. Some plastic tubings may be ok if they are fully outguessed.
Marshall "[email protected]" wrote: > sorry I made a mistake in my post, I am getting 006 > using the TDS meter from just the distiller dripping > in to a glass cup, no filter, no charchol. The only > thing that the steam comes into contact with are the > tubes where it is cooled off or condensed back into > water. I belive these tubes are made of stainless > steal???? but am very unsure about that.. So my guess > is that something is being picked up in the > re-condensing stage. > > --- Dean Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 20:34:39 -0700 (PDT), > > "[email protected]" > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >Hi Went to the store and bought two difrrent > > distilled > > >water types, and both read a 001 ppm. The best I > > >could do without my charchol filter was 006 ppm. So > > I > > >am still not sure what my distiller is doing? > > > > It's working okay -- but your charcoal filter is > > contaminating the > > water. Stop using it! (Don't filter the CS you > > make with anything, > > either as whatever you use as a filter will add > > contaminants to the > > CS.) > > > > >The > > >reason I prefer to make it myself is because of > > what > > >Hulda has done with the testing of bottled waters > > to > > >contain iso-propyl alcohol in them(cancer > > compound). > > > > Store-bought distilled water doesn't have isopropyl > > alcohol (or any > > other stuff) in it. Hulda wasn't talking about > > distilled water when > > she says "bottled water," she meant "spring water" > > and such. > > > > >Anyway I am running a new batch and heated the > > water > > >up in a microwave to around 100 degrees. > > > > No need to heat the water, and some say that a > > microwave will > > adversely alter the structure of the water. > > > > > > -- Dean -- from (almost) Des Moines -- KB0ZDF > > > > > > -- > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion > > of colloidal silver. > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: > > http://silverlist.org > > > > 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!? > New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! > http://sbc.yahoo.com
