From what you are suggesting here, one should not use distilled water in their cooling system. But I dont get what you are talking about because it is jsut pure water right? Why the hell would it ahve any charge or draw ions or corrode copper and where did you find this anecdote? Michael SChiesser 89 Westfalia Seattle WA Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:15:18 -0400 From: Jonc <jonc@webgears.com> Subject: distilled water grabs free ions like crazy distilled water knocks holes in copper pipe... in one anecdote copper pipe had to be replace by Plastic pipe at a military base in New England because we could not keep the copper pipe from corroding... it would leak again within six months of replacement... distilled water at ambient temperature.was all that there was going through that piping... ===== Michael Schiesser MD 1732 18th Ave #J Seattle WA 98122 "Fruitlands" is name given to the region around Harvard Mass by early settlers. We dont live there any more, but I did when I chose fruitlands as a user name. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ |
Please note - During the past 17 years of operation, several gigabytes of
Vanagon mail messages have been archived. Searching the entire collection
will take up to five minutes to complete. Please be patient!
Return to the archives @ gerry.vanagon.com
The vanagon mailing list archives are copyright (c) 1994-2011, and may not be reproduced without the express written permission of the list administrators. Posting messages to this mailing list grants a license to the mailing list administrators to reproduce the message in a compilation, either printed or electronic. All compilations will be not-for-profit, with any excess proceeds going to the Vanagon mailing list.
Any profits from list compilations go exclusively towards the management and operation of the Vanagon mailing list and vanagon mailing list web site.