Tarheel Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 This months Stereophile mag has an article by Michael Fremer who reports that Aquafina bottled water is purified by reverse osmosis and "thus is very pure". There is a link to click on to see why Aquafina should make a great and inexpensive record rinse! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 This is unrelated but a few years ago I came across a bottle of un-flavored water by another company and, honest to God, the label said "Diet Water"!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators dtel Posted April 19, 2009 Moderators Share Posted April 19, 2009 Reverse Osmosis is very pure water, but I believe it still has the minerals, Distilled I believe has no minerals. It's cheap enough by the gallon, it's also very good for cloths irons or anything where you don't want the mineral deposits to build up. I could be wrong, that seems to happen alot ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tigerwoodKhorns Posted April 19, 2009 Share Posted April 19, 2009 I use distilled water. Works great to steam albums. 99 cents or less per gallon. There is a ong thread on Audiogon where guys tried all different types of water. Gotta love waching them obsess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RF62 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Reverse Osmosis water treated properly will NOT have any minerals left in it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallette Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Reverse Osmosis water treated properly will NOT have any minerals left in it! But it won't be as cheap as distilled, which CANNOT have minerals left in it in any significant quantities. Dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEvan Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 However you get there, the bottom line is always TDS (total dissolved solid). Properly implemented, RO, DI and distillation will get you there. In my business I need to generate lots of pure water. Here, with my local water, in my quantities, it's cheapest with DI. For others in my business it's RO + DI. To buy bottled, distilled seems to be the cheapest and it's reliably pure. Aquafina? Sounds better??? Gimme a break. Water is water is water is water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blvdre Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 We have a DI filtration system here at work that filters the water to 18 Mohms (laboratory quality), but we still use Distilled for building our liquid test kits, because of it's purity. Go w/ Distilled, it's cheap, pure, and readily available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RF62 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Just how cheap are we talking about? With Distilled, you do have to heat up the liquid to a certain temperature, which in my mind would take up alot of electricity. At a local store, they sell R/O water as low as .12 cents a litre. Is distilled cheaper than that??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Blacksmith Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 READ the lables on the water bottles in the store. A LOT of the "drinking" water is RO filtered and is $.99 per gallon. I need to really watch the lables on purchased water for my old espresso machine. It COULD NOT use RO or Distllled water as it is "too pure" and the auto fill system would not work. The system functioned by passing a small electric charge through the water tank between two probes. If the water was too pure, it would not pass electric curent, thus if I used water that was either RO or Distilled, no electricty would pass and the machine woud shut off as it "thought" it was out of water. Many of the bottles of inexpensive drinking water are, in fact, RO filtered, look at the mice type on the bottle, you will be supprised. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cal Blacksmith Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Just how cheap are we talking about? With Distilled, you do have to heat up the liquid to a certain temperature, which in my mind would take up alot of electricity. At a local store, they sell R/O water as low as .12 cents a litre. Is distilled cheaper than that??? That temp is boiling as distilled water is boiled and the vapor is then cooled (distilled) and returned to liquid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. RF62 Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I know. So heating and keeping it heated, takes electricity, costs money, unless your solar powered as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 It also depends on the quality of the water to start with. JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blvdre Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Just how cheap are we talking about? With Distilled, you do have to heat up the liquid to a certain temperature, which in my mind would take up alot of electricity. At a local store, they sell R/O water as low as .12 cents a litre. Is distilled cheaper than that??? I don't know what's cheap for distilled water, but looked quickly on the web and found a case of 6 gallons for $8.25, so 0.36 cents per liter. You might be able to find a better price locally.Cal brought up an interesting point about his espresso machine that made me think of an unrelated, but relevant issue; Pure water has a lot of surface tension and may not flow to the vinyl surface readily, so wouldn't be that good of a cleaner. Some type of benign wetting agent would help matters, although I'm not sure what would work best. Some type of vinyl friendly detergent would do the trick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fini Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Buy a reverse osmosis system and make your own! Oh, you can drink the stuff, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacksonbart Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 can you get sick by drinking your own urine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JJkizak Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Is this 2 channel bottled water? Does it come in horn shaped bottles to increase the flow into your guuzzler? JJK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechMan Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Can I get it in Oxygen free bottles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mighty Favog Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Can I get it in Oxygen free bottles? You want a bottle of Hydrogen??[] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MechMan Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 Can I get it in Oxygen free bottles? You want a bottle of Hydrogen?? Wouldn't that be more "Hyfi"?[H] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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