Poll: Do you use distilled water?

[chuck94022]

As a current resident of Beijing, yes. I have no idea what is in the tap water.


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[Jim Cole]

Since moving to Indiana from Flagstaff, which had great tap water, I use double Brita filtered water for the single shot developer and the final Photoflo rinse.

The tap water here is terrible. This is the first place I've ever lived where if water sits for more than about 12 hours, a clear slime starts to grow, even in my capped hiking water bottles. After 36 hours or so it's disgusting. I have no idea what it is. That's why we double filter our drinking water, too.

[Terry Christian]

Here in Memphis, Tennessee, our water is sourced not from the Mississippi River but from natural underground aquifers, so it's some of the best tap water you'll find anywhere -- indistinguishable from bottled in mosy cases. I use it for presoaks and rinsing, and run it through a pitcher-type PUR filter for mixing chems and for final rinse.

[Dennis]

Portland Oregon tap water for everything except various platinum palladium chemicals. We have a filter thing on the kitchen tap that filters more finely than brita.

[chuck94022]

Distilled for pre-soak and mixing chemicals as well as last two rinses. One big help was buying a water distilling machine. Electric and you plug it in and a few hours later have distilled water to use. Picked them up at yard sales for much less than new - tho both looked new with one clearly unused.

It works well and costs less than going to the store, quite a bit less.

If you put in corn mash do you get whisky? :-)


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[Jody_S]

If you put in corn mash do you get whisky? :-)


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Yes. I had to call 911 for someone who was doing this, he died of massive organ failure a week or so later. I heard him call for help as I walked past his apartment, he had fallen out of his armchair and broken a hip. The fact that he weighed +600lbs didn't help, but he did in fact drink himself to death using one of those distilling thingys.