Making distilled water

[str8edg]

I know there are many threads that talk about distilled water and people ask how is the best way to make it... and the answer is always buy it because it is cheap and easier... well I can not buy it, I will be able to buy it this summer but right now I am SOL. Now I could get some sent up to me but that would be expensive and take forever! SO I am going to try to make some. I searched our science lab and could find nothing that would help me in this endeavor, so I am going to have to do it with kitchen stuff.

I have an idea of how I am going to go about doing this... I figure I am going to use a stainless steel pot and on top of that I will put a SS bowl, sort of tipped to one side (I am hoping that the water will collect on that and run to the side that I have tipped. Then I will collect the water in a glass dish.

So I am looking for any suggestions, or any ideas of what NOT to do, or what to do??

Thanks guys/girls

[CEC_Tech]

Actually, that's not a bad idea. Just make sure everything is sterilized so you don't get any bacteria in the water.

You can use vodka to sterilize the bowl you're gonna put over the boiling water.

If you wanna take it a step futher, get a brita water pitcher, filter the water then boil and condense like you said.

Otherwise, you'll have to build yourself a "still". If you build a still, then forget the water and make some white lightning!

[zipper]

1) Boil Water
2) Take pot lid, place it over the water, and after a bit, the steam will condense on the lid. If you turn the lid upside down quickly, the water all collects at the center, and can be poured out all together.
3) if you have a second pot lid, you can place it on the water as soon you remove the first lid. Hopefully you can get a pretty good cycle going with two lids (or better yet three lids and two pots of water).

I learned this from my mom. I don't remember why, but it pertained to something else we were doing. I am the son of a "Mrs. Wizard" Type science teacher.

[Old Sailor]

Distilled water is regular water that has been turned to steam and recondensed. boil away the teakettle into a slanted receptacle.

[nosaj02]

Personally IMHO, it would just be easier and more efficient to buy the gallon for a $1 and change

[duhman]

If you have some copper tubing, make a still, it can be used to distill other fluids,too.

[daniel2001]

Where my dad works (he's a dentist), they use distilled water makers. Basically, you stick some tap water in and put a thing on top with a heater and a fan in. The fan blows the hot air onto the water, it evaporates and is then collected in a container. Done.

[NCRadioMan]

The easiest way I know is to use a tin foil tent above a pot of boiling water and put cups at the corners to collect the run-off.

[hotreds]

Originally Posted by nosaj02

Personally IMHO, it would just be easier and more efficient to buy the gallon for a $1 and change

READ the post!

[My371]

Good day-

Since it's so frickin' cold where you're at...and you have plenty of ice......When you drink a "cold one"...The moisture on the outside(droplets) of the glass is actually distilled water.

Just get a glass of ice and hold it over somethin' to collect the water that drips. Enjoy a good cigar while you're doing it...It won't be so boring.

I'm sure you won't get a gallon...But, perhaps enough to "water" your beads!

Have a great day...And stay warm for Gawd's sake!

[nosaj02]

Originally Posted by hotreds

READ the post!

Wow, take it easy. I did read the post and I still think its easier to just buy it. I know he said he cant but the time and effort it would take to make it would be more costly considering materials and utilities needed. He would need to have all the supplies needed for it to be worth it.

[NCRadioMan]

Originally Posted by nosaj02

Wow, take it easy. I did read the post and I still think its easier to just buy it. I know he said he cant but the time and effort it would take to make it would be more costly considering materials and utilities needed. He would need to have all the supplies needed for it to be worth it.

Do you know where he is?

[Bear]

Originally Posted by nosaj02

Wow, take it easy. I did read the post and I still think its easier to just buy it. I know he said he cant but the time and effort it would take to make it would be more costly considering materials and utilities needed. He would need to have all the supplies needed for it to be worth it.

Google Map or MapQuest Craig's location and you'll see why he doesn't have easy access to this.

Craig, I like Old Sailor's idea of just using a kettle, probably alot easier then going the pot & lid route.

[replicant_argent]

If you are able to purchase a single bottle of Aquafina (the cocacola product) that will work well. Your town may not have a store, or whatever, but simply solving your difficulty by using some bottled drinking water is the best solution, you don't want spring water, but read the label, any bottled water that says "produced with reverse osmosis" will be fine, Dasani and some others will have added minerals, you don't want that. If it doesn't say it has anything added, you are golden. RO water is a higher level of purification than distilled, and if you do not contaminate the cap or threads, one single bottle should last you a very long time.

(I'm guessing there is a single bottle of water available somewhere, of course.)

[Old Sailor]

Originally Posted by nosaj02

Personally IMHO, it would just be easier and more efficient to buy the gallon for a $1 and change

it would cost him probably around $80.00 after shipping to Resolute, if it even got there.