Distilling Water

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Distilling Water

Postby captainfog » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:05 am

I collect records and I use distilled water to clean them. I normally have to buy it but I've heard the airstill can do this? I didn't think it heated up enough?
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Re: Distilling Water

Postby Easydrinker » Fri Dec 08, 2017 12:19 am

Fill it with water, switch it on.
Eventually distilled water will come out.
Simples.

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Re: Distilling Water

Postby Mash » Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:06 am

Yup. That's it.

I can only add, make sure it's clean if you have been using it gin botanicals previously.
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Re: Distilling Water

Postby hampk » Fri Dec 08, 2017 1:48 pm

you'll generally see it advertised for precisely that purpose. The fact that it can be bent to other uses is a happy 'co-incidence'!

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Re: Distilling Water

Postby gaza the instructor » Fri Dec 08, 2017 6:39 pm

To much of this distilled water, with a little tonic,
makes me fall off my perch. ;D
Rather have a full bottle in front of me
than a full frontal lobotomy
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Re: Distilling Water

Postby Easydrinker » Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:38 pm

I suspect that gaza started early tonight, :)

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Re: Distilling Water

Postby captainfog » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:34 am

Thanks, I should probably get on this then because I've got a stack of Christmas records to clean O0
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Re: Distilling Water

Postby Easydrinker » Mon Dec 11, 2017 11:37 pm

Are you Santa?
Checking your lists once and twice.
Just had to ask.

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Re: Distilling Water

Postby Mash » Tue Dec 12, 2017 7:46 am

Lol.
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Re: Distilling Water

Postby Easydrinker » Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:06 am

Peace On Earth and Goodwill don't work.

I remain a cynical and Sceptical old bastard.

Ho, Ho, fecking Ho.

So much on this planet that I cannot fix.

If I can stop just one person drinking shit moonshine, then I have done something.

Oh, MERRY CHRISTMAS ONE AND ALL!

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Re: Distilling Water

Postby captainfog » Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:28 pm

The instructions say to add a bag of carbon? WTF I do not want that crap on my records. Why would they suggest that? Surely I'm fine just to stick in a couple of litres of water and press go? Will I need ceramics or copper at the bottom?
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Re: Distilling Water

Postby Mash » Thu Dec 14, 2017 5:16 am

ALWAYS copper in the bottom.
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Re: Distilling Water

Postby gaza the instructor » Thu Dec 14, 2017 8:09 am

It breaks all the bubbles up and stops a big
eruption from the bottom of the still.

This statement is based on my knowledge.
I therefore deny any knowledge of its existence.
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