Maybe someone should put SS pipes in their van and fill it up with sea
water.  See how long it lasts.  Maybe the corrosion will stop the
headgaskets leaking..Cheaper than antifreeze, if you live in a coastal
area...

  Sheesh, what a silly thread...  Chicken Little (he's got nothing on us)
 wears a belt AND suspenders, a hard hat and a flak vest...and nomex
undies...

  Oh well, Don Hanson

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 7:19 PM, BenT Syncro <syncro@gmail.com> wrote:

> This topic is drifting off to sea... where big boats like cruiseships,
> subs, aircraft carriers, and such distill seawater for drinking purposes.
>
> Once heard of a Doublecab with a Wasserboxer doing double duty on a US
> carrier. I'll bet it used distiller water since that was what they had on
> tap on the boat.;-)
>
>
> BenT
>
>
> On Oct 16, 2010, at 6:24 PM, craig cowan <phishman068@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> > It was a liter, we took it from the DI jug in a chem lab.
> > It did not end well.....
> > The doctor said that is what did it.
> >
> > Supposedly if you put a goldfish in DI water, it gets very thin very fast
> as
> > the water strips it's body of minerals.
> > I'm not that cruel....
> > I'll stick to roommates.
> >
> > -Craig
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 9:21 PM, David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
> wrote:
> >
> >> At 08:00 PM 10/16/2010  -0400, craig cowan wrote:
> >>
> >>> I was under the impression (though mind you I am not much of a chemist)
> >>> that
> >>> DI water was actually quite reactive in some situations (Especially
> >>> organic).
> >>>
> >>
> >> Deionized water is what you use when you don't want to pay extra for
> >> distilled and can live with the various stuff that deionizing does not
> >> remove.  This seems to be a pretty good overview of purified water of
> >> various ilken.
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purified_water
> >>
> >>
> >>  I know if you drink a cup of DI water, you will become severely
> >>> sick as it actively tries to fill it'sself back up with minerals and
> >>> nutrients, which it will rob from your body. (Experimentation has
> proven
> >>> this. I'm very cruel sometimes to roommates....).
> >>>
> >>
> >> I suspect that the water you used must have been bacterially
> contaminated.
> >> DI water (or distilled) may not be the best thing to drink over the long
> >> term, but a cup (or a gallon) shouldn't do you any harm at all.  I've
> known
> >> a few people on a certain fringe who've drunk nothing but distilled
> water
> >> (from their own still) for years with no apparent ill effect.
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyway, I was under the impression that similar reactivity would occur
> on
> >>> metals. It may not be a conductor, but it is actively trying to
> dissolve
> >>> things. Much more so than a solvent that is already at capacity (IE Tap
> >>> water full of random crap).
> >>>
> >>
> >> In a cooling system purified water inhibits scale formation.  The
> >> antifreeze mix suppresses corrosion.
> >>
> >> Yours,
> >> David
> >>
> >>
> >>
>