If you always use distilled water in a steam iron, you won't have the
buildup of deposits that clog the orifices.  Most tap water will render
them useless in a fairly short time.

Mike

Mike wrote:
>  Distilled water has no minerals in it.  Because it's 'wants' to have
> minerals in it, it 'takes' minerals from where ever it can get them; that'd
> be the inside of your cooling system.  This is a form of corrosion and eats
> away at any thing that it can get it's greedy little claws into.  I believe
> that it has been proven to accelerate the breakdown of your engine's case
> and heads, gaskets, radiator, heater cores, etc.
>  Anyone else familiar with this issue?
>
> Mike B.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rob" <becida@COMCAST.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 11:12 PM
> Subject: Re: distilled water for coolant - was New Car Dealers And Parts
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>> At  1/30/2008 05:28 PM, Allan Streib wrote:
>>> On Jan 30, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Vdub Guy wrote:
>>>
>>>> I plan to flush my coolant system soon and replace it with VW blue
>>>> coolant and distilled water.
>>>
>>> why distilled?  Is that what VW calls for?  Or is your local water
>>> really extremely hard?
>>>
>>> Allan
>>
>> Distilled water is a known, tap water, who knows? I always use
>> distilled when mixing up coolant.
>>
>>
>>
>> Rob
>> becida@comcast.net
>>
>