water question

[Belhade]

How important is it to use *distilled* water in liquids? Will plain tap/filtered/bottled/spring water ruin me or my PV? I'm assuming it's the minerals and impurities in regular water fouling the atty that is the issue. I've used maybe .5ml Brita-filtered tap water in mixing so far..

 

[5cardstud]

I don't think it will kill your atty with a little but if I were you I'd play it on the safe side and use distilled water. All the people who have posted threads on using distilled water agree so there must be something to what they know and have experienced. Check out The Wonderful World of vaping: An Illustrated Guide to E-cigs (Parts 1 through 6) in the ecf library it tells you everything .

 

[smokum]

Well, if you saw and smelled what remains on the bottom of my table top distiller using water taken from a regulatory body accepted and approved well I draw my water from (and send in samples 3 times a year), you probably would NEVER even drink tap water ever again !!

I even brought it over to my sister's home for her to use since she just had a baby, and we both couldn't believe the crap left over after distilling "city" tap water.....

Hell, I'm saving my pennies for a whole house reverse osmosis system. I don't care what "THEY" say are acceptable levels of anything anymore.

VapeOn,
Greg

 

[Belhade]

What's a table-top distiller? Can you distill water by just boiling then condensing the steam?

 

[doots]

what I do when I need 10 drops or so is to boil some whater with a lid of the pot and take the lid off and you can get about 10 drops of water off of it easily. just let the water into a cup. put back on the lif for 5 minutes if you need more.

 

[smokum]

I use a distiller I purchased from ecopure as I drink A LOT of water, and I need quite a bit to make colloidal silver.

But for the purpose of what you want to do I suppose you could just do as mentioned, but for drinking, I would also run it through a charcoal filter.

If you buy a 4l jug at the grocery store or pharmacy (make sure it say "distilled" water), it very cheap to purchase.

VapeOn,
Greg

 

[Mjrich]

what I do when I need 10 drops or so is to boil some whater with a lid of the pot and take the lid off and you can get about 10 drops of water off of it easily. just let the water into a cup. put back on the lif for 5 minutes if you need more.

Great idea! Thanks

 

[Elapid]

Wouldn't it be more economical to buy a gallon of distilled water? I would think the utility cost, be it gas or electric, would cost more than just buying a gallon of distilled water. I'm not a tree hugger, but I do like to go the economical route.

JMHO