Bob: I have had several batches tested at a local environmental lab. They charged me $25 for total silver test (by "digestion" method) and $10 for resistivity tests. I don't know how these prices compare with others.
Dean Woodward -----Original Message----- From: Robert L. Wells [mailto:robert.we...@ny.ubs.com] Sent: Thursday, June 25, 1998 6:56 PM To: silver Subject: Just received my Hanna TDS-1! I just received my Hanna TDS-1 yesterday. It cost me $14.95 plus shipping. The first thing I did was to test the water from my kitchen faucet. We have our own well. It tested at 78-79 ppm. Then I tested the water from our Amway water filter. It registered 74-75 ppm. I next tested distilled water made by my Sears distiller. It tested at 1ppm. I also tested the store-bought distilled water. It also tested 1-2 ppm. So far, so good. I tested my home-brewed CS, and it tested at 18-20 ppm. We make it with 3 9v batteries hooked in series and attached to the silver wire. We do not have a light bulb connected to the series, though I want to make this improvement soon. The silver wire is held in place by a board in which I drilled a couple of small holes about half an inch apart. I got the silver wire (.999 pure) from a place suggested by Marsha (Liahona). I place the board over an 8 oz Kerr bottling jar relatively full of distilled water. I use the board mostly because someone suggested that, ideally, the wire shouldn't touch the bottle, and it seems easier to manage the contraption this way. We let the thing run until one of the leads is pretty gunky. We haven't been very careful about timing. We simply assume that when the annode is pretty covered with flakes and the water seems yellowish in color we have an adequate concentration of CS. I'm pretty happy with the 18-20 ppm result of the last batch. Just for fun, my wife tested a commercial variety of CS that we have on hand. It claims to be 10 ppm. You can imagine my surprise when it tested at 98 ppm. Now I'm confused. Either my TDS-1 isn't calibrated correctly (and therefore all of my measurements are suspect) or the commercial brand I have is under-rated. Maybe I should have both my home brew and the commercial stuff tested at a lab? What might this cost? By the way, one thing I've noticed is that when I drink colloidal silver, I can't taste it with my tongue, but the taste buds at the back of my throat sense a metallic type of flavor that sticks for a bit. Bob -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com -or- silver-digest-requ...@eskimo.com with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@id.net>
