Date:         Mon, 28 Aug 2000 01:33:09 PDT
Reply-To:     Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Mark Dorm <mark_hb@hotmail.com>
Subject:      Re: distilled water grabs free ions like crazy
Comments: To: jonc@webgears.com
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Thats interesting - copper is very conductive - so I guess the distilled
water is acting like an antioxidant.... and eats a hole in the copper in the
process.... there's no copper in the vanagon cooling system.. right or
wrong? - it comes into contact with aluminum, rubber and what else? whats
the case made out of?

Some guy behind a VW parts counter (not the dealer) said distilled was
better for the coolant system - now I don't know what to think.


>From: Jonc <jonc@webgears.com>
>
>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...

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