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Thread Number: 41183
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| Post# 437036 , Reply# 1 1/2/2021 at 19:52 (1,208 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
Had
I have a water distiller the filter went bad and I have not bought a new filter yet.
I'm guessing I got 500 gallons of distilled water from it. It was about .20 a gallon. I do notice mineral build up from non distilled water in humidifiers and other things. I didn't compare it to store bought distilled water. It was a very nice luxury to have. I watched a show where a guy helps homesteaders better things so they could survive off the grid. There was a family that had a well that was salt water. He used a solar panel to evaporate the salt water. The vapors rose and separated from the salt. The salt stayed below and vapors rose and went from vapors back to water. It's similar to how water is distilled. Enjoy the distiller they are very nice to have. | ||
| Post# 437048 , Reply# 2 1/2/2021 at 22:49 (1,208 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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| Post# 437052 , Reply# 3 1/2/2021 at 23:24 (1,208 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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| Post# 437075 , Reply# 4 1/3/2021 at 23:55 (1,207 days old) by MadMan (Chicago, IL, USA) | ||
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That's a fancy water distiller, admittedly. There are much cheaper ones on ebay. Big Clive made a youtube video of using one as an alcohol still, and he basically suggested that it was all sort of tongue in cheek.
I mean, it's functionally the same thing, at the end of the day. With the alcohol, you just have to separate the heads, hearts, and tails. CLICK HERE TO GO TO MadMan's LINK | ||
| Post# 437080 , Reply# 5 1/4/2021 at 05:41 (1,207 days old) by huskyvacs (Gnaw Bone, Indiana) | ||
Distilled water here is 86 cents for a gallon of it, not really sure that spending $200 on a machine that can only make 1 gallon every 5 hours has any purpose. Can buy 30 one gallon jugs for $25 and have a month's supply assuming even the most archaic humidifier that drinks a gallon a day.
You can also buy de-scaler tablets or coffeepot descaler solution to treat the water if you have hard tap water, and will have the same effect. | ||
| Post# 437677 , Reply# 8 1/23/2021 at 23:05 (1,187 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Distilled
I work at walgreens as a front end manager for 9 years. The photo department developed 35 mm film in store. The film processor had a distilled water unit. We set up a humidifier and used distilled water and they ran clean and sold like hot cakes.
The film developing went away. They were throwing away the distiller. I took it home. I got I believe 500 gallons out of the unit. The filters are $120-$140 to replace it. Using distilled water with bissell mop vacuum type machines it works great. My wife uses tap water on the floors and says it takes forever to dry and doesn't shine as well. I may get the filter and start making my own distilled water. | ||
| Post# 437720 , Reply# 10 1/25/2021 at 02:07 (1,186 days old) by Lesinutah (Utah) | ||
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Commercial
I guess it was commercial but its origins are 20-30 years old as it was made by Fuji just for film processing.
I'd consider it ancient and effective but not really commercial.
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Post# 439301 , Reply# 13 2/28/2021 at 19:50 (1,151 days old) by n0oxy  (Saint Louis Missouri, United States) |
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one more distiller I keep thinking my distiller collection is complete, then I find another one that sounds interesting. This one is also made by waterwise but it's a different design. Mike CLICK HERE TO GO TO n0oxy's LINK | ||
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