hey, Reid........... Your thinking on the filter is similar to some posts I made a while back where I speculated on saturating a face-mask filter n letting it dry and folks like us school bus drivers might wear same if conditions warrant.
I too wonder if it would be helpful in the specific situation you refer to, but the concept would seem to be of incredible potential in a host of applications; some already seem to be put to use- ie, AGion's sale of over 5million pairs of socks to the mil.; the use in shoe/boot liners; in solid materials such as stethoscope heads and public drinking fountains; the fact that fda has apparently approved the use of silver in the food-handling-utensil-domain; the apparent success by "our-own-Brooks" group with putting silver in latex paint. I wish we could get some concrete results, if any, that people may have had with aids, and things like ms/als [which more and more look like invasions into the brain by nanoparticles (including from diesel fumes~ greatly of concern to a school-bus driver)]......... and on and on. I can see it being a very exciting time for "silver" davido On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 08:23:05 +0530 Reid Harvey <[email protected]> writes: TJ and Marshall, I'm just wondering what would happen if you saturated that batting with concentrated CS, dried it out, then used this as an anti bacterial filter. Of course you may have little impetus to do this, since iron is your problem, probably not bacteria. But for others wouldn't this make a darn good anti bacterial filter? Presumably the ionic silver would, in drying, react to become silver oxide and silver hydroxide, but it should stay in the batting, if containment were robust. Anyhow, just a thought....... Reid TJ Garland said: Go to a fabric store and buy a couple yards of 50/50 cotton polyester quilt batting to filter out the iron. I made a filter with 2 5 gallon buckets that were drilled and used the fabric between them . It removed almost all the iron. I changed the fabric out once a month on my well.
