Irish anyone? Where do you get your distilled water?

drj130 wrote:I wish you luck in getting the water you need DublinBoyo. I'm going to be heading to Afghanistan sometime in the near future, and I know that I'll have a bit of a problem finding it myself. I have the Army trying to get it for me so that I can have a stockpile at the location I'll be at, but I'm sure that won't work out too well.

Again I wish you luck on finding it.

David

God Bless you and watch over you. Thank you.

My local grocery store has it with cleaning supplies - not with the other drinking/spring water. I was so worried at first, when I couldn't find it, but I was just looking in the wrong spot!

Apparently it's better for your irons and whatnot to use the distilled water, so they keep it with the cleaning/household items.

Bigburd2008 wrote:

drj130 wrote:I wish you luck in getting the water you need DublinBoyo. I'm going to be heading to Afghanistan sometime in the near future, and I know that I'll have a bit of a problem finding it myself. I have the Army trying to get it for me so that I can have a stockpile at the location I'll be at, but I'm sure that won't work out too well.

Again I wish you luck on finding it.

David

God Bless you and watch over you. Thank you.

You're welcome and thank you for the support.

David

DublinBoyo wrote:there are a lot of apnea patients in Ireland and many of them use CPAPs so was wondering why we didn't see them here on the forum??!!!!

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Unless your mains tap water is very hard, using it plus periodically rinsing out your humidifier with white vinegar will be fine.

Cheers,

Bill

drj130 wrote:I'm going to be heading to Afghanistan sometime in the near future, and I know that I'll have a bit of a problem finding it myself. I have the Army trying to get it for me so that I can have a stockpile at the location I'll be at, but I'm sure that won't work out too well.

David,

Safe traveling and safe tour! I've a good friend whose Air National Guard unit has had two tours in Iraq in the last four years.

You can also just boil the water.

provider wrote:You can also just boil the water.

That will only make the water safe to drink. It won't remove minerals that are in there. That is unless I've forgotten something.

David

Boiling will make the mineral content of the water increase, because it removes some of the water (as water vapor) and none of the minerals.

When you boil the water if you collect and condense the vapour you get distilled water. So yes - just boiling increases particle density of water - makes it worse for our cause

Seems that my memory isn't too far gone then.

seems so alright
or that could be because you use fork for your morning cereal - who knows eh?

DublinBoyo wrote:seems so alright
or that could be because you use fork for your morning cereal - who knows eh?

Works pretty good for oatmeal.

seems to me you could make a home 'still pretty easy out of a pressure cooker, like you'd use for canning vegetables and pickles and whatnot.

If you took the weight off the vent, and put a hose on the port, ran the hose through an ice water bath and into a container to collect the water, you'd get distilled water without much effort.

Or, if you could find a way to seal a lid on a regular pot, you could just drill a hole in the lid and fit it with a brass barb to attach a hose to. On second thought, it wouldn't even really have to be that good of a seal, just enough that the steam will be forced through the hose instead of leaking around the lid.

pitrow wrote:seems to me you could make a home 'still pretty easy out of a pressure cooker, like you'd use for canning vegetables and pickles and whatnot.

If you took the weight off the vent, and put a hose on the port, ran the hose through an ice water bath and into a container to collect the water, you'd get distilled water without much effort.

Or, if you could find a way to seal a lid on a regular pot, you could just drill a hole in the lid and fit it with a brass barb to attach a hose to. On second thought, it wouldn't even really have to be that good of a seal, just enough that the steam will be forced through the hose instead of leaking around the lid.

That sounds like a lot of hard work

I will rather use my bottled mineral water, let the scale build up over time and clean the tank with white viegar every now and then... that sounds easier to me. By the way I have started using bottled mineral water already because there is no frigging way I get distilled water in Ireland. I tried my best!!!

Two things.

Apparently he minerals in water can be harmful to your lungs. They have no way of evacuating or dealing with minerals that would be deposited when using regular water.

I was finally able to find a solution in Dublin. Every pharmacy will carry or can order a 1 liter bottle of distilled water for EUR 17. Pretty expensive if you live here. I found a 25 liter container on Amazon for EUR 75 shipped. That brought the cost down to just over EUR 2 per liter. Hope this helps someone out there.