On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 04:23:09 GMT, (Larry W4CSC) wrote:

On Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:13:14 -0700, " Olly wrote:

Watermakers remove almost all the TDS - supposedly 99+% - so the water
is like distilled. Is it unhealthy to drink nothing but distilled
water - no mineral content - for years while cruising.

Here's a good water test site to show what a distiller can do.....

http://wholesalewaterdistillers.com/...istillers.html

Yeah, he's a dealer in the USA for all of them......but the tests were
done at 2 universities.



Larry W4CSC

3600 planes with transponders are burning 8-10 million
gallons of kerosene per hour over the USA. R-12 car air
conditioners are responsible for the ozone hole, right?

I'd also like to warn anyone interested in distilled water of the
dangers of your STORAGE facility......

Many forget to sanitize their storage tankage (you know that green
slimed water tank in the bilge you don't want to think about because
there's no way to really clean it). In my facility, I use only
glassware water bottles I buy from local bottled water distributors.
These are washed to get out anything solid with antibacterial soap,
where most people stop. However this isn't good, either, as the rinse
water is contaminated by city water. So, I put the jugs into my
JennAire convection oven at 230F for 20 minutes to sanitize the
leftovers from city water rinsing.

The end product is you can sit my water in full sunlight, capped of
course, and nothing will grow in it because there was nothing to start
the growth. This was suggested by another distiller and it works
great. I sanitize five big glass jugs at a time, then cap them until
they are ready to be filled. My distiller has NO TANKAGE OF ITS OWN.
It's a commercial lab distiller made of stainless steel and white
porcelain with a 1500W element. Latex surgical hose connects its
output to the carbon column directly over the sanitized jug.....



Larry W4CSC

"Very funny, Scotty! Now, BEAM ME MY CLOTHES! KIRK OUT!"

Here's a good water test site to show what a distiller can do.....

I see no mention of sulphur. We have to draw the drinking water into some
type of vessel and then let it breathe for an hour or so and then refrigerate.
The
wonders of having well water in the low country.

Leanne