CS>The Foolish Experiment

2004-04-21 Thread S & J Young
Some years ago someone posted a very interesting and humorous account of he and his buddies having a few drinks, then deciding to try an ill-advised experiment by eating some very spoiled food - meat I think. They got quite ill, then drank some CS (or EIS for you purists) and quickly recover

Re: CS>Walgreen Ultrasonic Humidifier

2004-02-08 Thread S & J Young
Heather, The filter is really a wick for transporting the liquid up to the ultrasonically vibrating screen. I don't believe it has any charcoal in it, but instead relies on the high density (small pores) construction of the wick to filter out larger particles. I believe the wick has very little

Re: CS>Walgreen's Personal Ultrasonic Humidifier

2003-12-22 Thread S & J Young
Jeff, The filter is also the transport mechanism (a wick) to move the liquid up to the top of the filter where it contacts the ultrasonic vibrating "plate". If you take off the filter cartridge and open the "lid" and view the "plate" in front of a strong light on the other side of the plate, you w

Re: CS>new book on CS

2003-11-18 Thread S & J Young
I am replying to my own question (searched Amazon). The title of the book is "Colloidal Silver Today: The All Natural, Wide-Spectrum Germ Killer" - Original Message ----- From: "S & J Young" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:31 PM Subject: Re: CS>new book on

Re: CS>new book on CS

2003-11-18 Thread S & J Young
Warren, Care to share the title with us? --Steve Y. - Original Message - From: "Warren Jefferson" To: Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 4:23 PM Subject: CS>new book on CS > Hello All, > > Some of you may remember that I was researching a book on CS. Well it is > out and available thr

Re: CS>US gov interest in cs .....

2003-11-15 Thread S & J Young
How about cut and pasting the articles for the majority of us who don't ever want to log into AOL. --Steve Y. - Original Message - From: To: Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 1:53 PM Subject: CS>US gov interest in cs . > http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=200311141607099

CS>Juvenon

2003-10-18 Thread S & J Young
Anyone had any experience with a product called Juvenon? If so, I would be interested in your opinion of it - reply offline if you wish. I read about it in the latest Reader's Digest, and one can visit their website www.juvenon.com to learn more. Thanks, --Steve Y. -- The silver-list is a mod

Re: CS>Trem; was RE: CS>Measuring very high ppms

2003-10-10 Thread S & J Young
Vince, One of the features of the PWT is that it senses the temperature of the solution being measured and does an automatic temperature compensation. You shouldn't need to be concerned with the temperature of the calibration fluid for normal room temperatures. --Steve Y. - Original Message -

Re: CS>Nebulizing

2003-09-17 Thread S & J Young
Marv, Oxygen is probably better, but plain old compressed air is fine too. Cheap tire inflator compressors work well, but be careful to leave your air brush always on or the tire pump will produce pressures up to 200 psi. The HF air brush makes a very fine mist - better than some nebulizers. HF

CS>CS Metallic Taste

2003-09-07 Thread S & J Young
Most of us can detect the distinct metallic taste of CS products. What are we tasting - the ions, the particles (colloids), or both? --Steve Y. -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org To

CS>Constant Current CSG Schematic

2003-08-27 Thread S & J Young
Folks, In the spirit of sharing, I am making available (free) a schematic and a few construction hints for a CS generator I designed and use. It is super simple and can be built for around $15. It produces very high quality CS because the regulated (uses LM334) constant current to the electrodes

Re: CS>Re Heating CS

2003-06-15 Thread S & J Young
Andy & Ed, Why spend all the energy and time trying to concentrate CS? Just drink more of it, either larger quantities, or probably better, drink the same amount more frequently. This is guaranteed to get more product into your system, whereas the only sure way to know if you have successfully c

CS>Calibrating your PWT

2003-06-13 Thread S & J Young
Greetings, Recently there have been postings regarding PWT calibration. On a CS website is a table showing the mg of salt in a liter of water to produce various readings: "The following table shows a typical conversion of the PWT readings: µS/cm ReadingResistivitymg/L of NaCl 99.9

CS>Re: ULVDC CS Unit

2003-06-08 Thread S & J Young
Dick & other list members, (Dick's question was sent to me privately, but I thought my answer might help others) > Question. In using the LM334Z and the 330ohm resistor in the circuit of a > battery powered CS unit, why would one have to use (3) 9 volt batteries? Would > this system work with (1

CS>ULCCDC CS Generator

2003-06-05 Thread S & J Young
Greetings, Mike Monett inspired me to try a change in the way I brew CS. Usually I use a constant current of about 1.2 ma with 12 gauge silver wires with wetted length of about 4.5 inches spaced about 2 inches in a quart canning jar filled with Wallmart steam distilled water. I start with a volt

Re: CS>Thermal Stirring

2003-06-05 Thread S & J Young
Ode & other thermal stirring affectionados, You are right - base lights for thermal stirring are scarce as hen's teeth. But, taad!, have a look at these: http://www.jomoeng.com/ Nice variety, just the right size (3.2 x 3.2 inch), 7 watt bulb, for $9.35 each. I ordered two of them - will re

CS>Thermal Stirring

2003-06-04 Thread S & J Young
I thought I would try thermal stirring, using a small light bulb (5-7 watt night light). Question: what are good cases to mount the bulb & socket in, that I can make a 1 inch hole in the top & that is able to support a quart canning jar? I am looking for something a bit more classy than a tunafi

Re: CS>CS Generation with Solar Panels

2003-05-11 Thread S & J Young
Yes. Just make sure they are all illuminated. If one of them is in shadow, you will get no output. --Steve Y. By the way, your panels are way overkill, and you still should use a current limiting device. Production of CS only takes 1 ma x a few volts = just a few milliwatts. You can use your p

Re: CS>Attaching 12 gage silver wire electrodes to container lid

2003-05-06 Thread S & J Young
I agree - tip jacks work very well. But be sure to use a small file to round the ends of your silver wire so they insert easily. For those using DC, if you swap the wires every run, they will "wear down" evenly. Tip jacks have lost their popularity in the electronics industry in the last 20 year

CS>Air Brush Compressor

2003-05-06 Thread S & J Young
Folks, Harbor Freight has their normally $99 air brush compressor on sale for $69 now. I bought one to evaluate. It is an 1/8 horsepower, oilless, 10 pound unit that sits on rubber vibration absorbing feet and runs fairly quietly. It also has a pressure regulator and gauge to monitor air pressur

Re: CS> H- ion; was the Godzilla machine... garsh darnit...

2003-04-20 Thread S & J Young
Roman, You have made a very bold claim that Megahydrin is the same as Active-h. Can you back that up with facts? Patrick Flanagan started with one company with a product named Microhydrin, and it was excellent. Then, according to Patrick, the company began making shortcuts in the processing, and

Re: CS>how do i properly clean my colloidal silver jar

2003-04-17 Thread S & J Young
Jay, Wash your jar however you want, e.g. by hand or in a dish washer. Then rinse it out several times with steam distilled water. Once you have done that, you don't need to clean it at all between brews. Just make a brew, decant off the clear stuff as you use it, and dump out the little bit r

Re: CS>Simple Current Limiting CS Generator

2002-12-30 Thread S & J Young
device (1N5297). I read it as the load voltage time the > load current (wattage) is equal to 800 microamps. That's bad. Can you drop > more than 1.35 volts across the device before it becomes hot and doesn't work > anymore? Thanks for your help. > > Andy > > > > Fr

Re: CS>Simple Current Limiting CS Generator

2002-12-29 Thread S & J Young
/americanmicrosemiconductor/info.html > > This company has the 1N5295 (.82 ma) in stock for $3.16 ea. Although they > have a $35.00 min. > > Also ya might want to look into using the LM334Z IC (variable) with a pot or > 100 ohm resistor. > > ~Ron > > - Original Message

CS>Simple Current Limiting CS Generator

2002-12-28 Thread S & J Young
Fellow CS brewers, Not well known is the fact that for about $5 you can easily convert your constant voltage CS generator (e.g. a three nine-volt battery setup) to one that limits the current to assure small particle production and prevent current "run-away". Thus your unit would then function t

Re: CS>cs and h2o2

2002-12-03 Thread S & J Young
pj, Try the same thing with plain distilled water & see if it still turns milky. This will tell you if the H2O2 is reacting with the garbage the comes out of your coffee filter. Filtering is really not needed. Just let your fresh brew sit overnight and the electrode "sluffings" will settle to t

CS>Herx13 PPM Calculator

2002-07-06 Thread S & J Young
Dear PPM experts, I tried the Herx13 Spreadsheet PPM calculator. I run one quart (473 mL) 4 hours at a constant 1.1 ma for the entire 4 hours. (I can do this because my current regulator can supply 160 volts or so, which is enough to draw 1.1 ma at startup). Electrodes are a pair of #12 silver

Re: CS>Source for recipes?

2002-06-18 Thread S & J Young
John, Any water measuring less than 1 ppm is very good and most likely steam distilled. You will need special laboratory equipment and procedures to get significantly greater purity. The Wallmart DW must be steam distilled or it would indicate a higher ppm. As an experiment, put a few drops of

CS>RE: Patent Search

2002-06-11 Thread S & J Young
I am answering my own query. I found a free patent search site and now have the patent. No need for any of you to respond. --Steve - Original Message - From: "S & J Young" To: "Silver List" Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:22 PM Subject: Patent Search > Hi,

CS>Patent Search

2002-06-11 Thread S & J Young
Hi, I believe at least one person on this list have given websites where one can download a patent. I want to obtain a health-related patent to study. Please send me off-list directions on how to do this. I prefer not to pay a fee. Alternately, if one of you has access to the U. S. patent datab

Re: CS>25 ma

2002-04-19 Thread S & J Young
Terry et al, It's not that simple. If each jar was EXACTLY the same as the others, then yes, the current would divide equally. But they will not be exactly the same. One of them will have a lower resistance than the others, and will draw more current. Thus the ppm production for that jar will b

Re: CS>question about filtering

2002-03-01 Thread S & J Young
Hilary, Don't bother filtering. Just let your brew settle for an hour or so, then carefully pour the liquid off and leave the sludge stuff on the bottom. This is called decanting. --Steve - Original Message - From: "Hilary Jacobson" To: Sent: Friday, March 01, 2002 8:19 AM Subject: CS>

Re: CS>One last reversal experiment

2002-02-07 Thread S & J Young
Ivan & Company, OK, I tried your H2O2 experiment. You imply the interesting hypothesis that the total PPMs are possibly the same, but the reversed one may have a higher percentage of true silver colloids. All I had was 3% H2O2. I added equal amounts to the control and reversed brews. No fizz.

CS>One last reversal experiment

2002-02-06 Thread S & J Young
Hello again, Recently I reported results of comparing CS production of a control batch with constant current same polarity verses a batch produced with constant current but relay switched voltage reversals. Brew time was 4 hours with constant 30 RPM paddle stirring. The result was the reversed b

CS>More Polarity Reversal Experiments

2002-02-02 Thread S & J Young
A while ago I reported an experiment of brewing batches under identical conditions, one with and the other without polarity switching. The results were that the switched batch was less than half ionic concentration and Tyndall as the unswitched one. The positive was that during the 4 hours of sti

Re: CS>Polarity Switch Experiment

2002-01-19 Thread S & J Young
Ivan, Remember my generator produces a constant current, so the current can't dip at reversal. Instead, the voltage goes up to maintain the constant current. In other words, the solution's apparent conductivity goes down (resistance goes up) for a few seconds at reversal. Or, the coatings on the

Re: CS>TE & laser light pens - more questions!

2002-01-19 Thread S & J Young
Alison, See below: Subject: CS>TE & laser light pens - more questions! > Hello again, > thanks to those who responded to my previous questions. Now I > have more. > > Several people/websites have mentioned using laser light pens to > view the TE. Is a laser light pen the same as a laser p

CS>Polarity Switch Experiment

2002-01-18 Thread S & J Young
List, I performed the following experiment: Case 1 was to make one quart of CS using a constant 1 ma DC current for 4 hours with electrodes spaced about 2 inches and with constant stirring. Starting V= 173.7 volts, I=0.86 ma, so R = 202K. Ending V = 13.8, I=1.18 ma, so R= 11.7K. Using Ivan's fo

Re: CS>changing polarity

2002-01-12 Thread S & J Young
Trem and all, When one polarity switches every 30 to 45 seconds or so, using a constant current, by about what factor does the the rate of production decrease? I believe during the transition period CS production stops or at least slows down until a new steady state condition is reached. Do you

CS>Constant current generators (was Re: CS>Re: HVDC)

2001-12-31 Thread S & J Young
Some comments below in response to Ken's questions, and some ideas on building your own constant current generator. - Original Message - From: "Ode Coyote" To: Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 7:40 AM Subject: Re: CS>Re: HVDC > > I think it was Terry that was running 120VDC into ten jar

Re: CS>CS & wattage

2001-12-31 Thread S & J Young
All Electronics and Hosfelt both sell surplus 30 rpm motors for less than $3. They work well as stirring motors. Make a short coupling out of a piece of vinyl tubing to couple the motor shaft to a plastic paddle. I agree - air bubblers result in a large number of tiny "cruddies" which make decan

Re: CS>Lunar CS making

2001-12-26 Thread S & J Young
Marshall said it well, and is what I had in mind but didn't communicate it very well. The Borderlands article is interesting, but is only one data point. What is needed are more carefully conducted experiments, as Marshall indicates, to determine that the phenomena is repeatable, and isolating th

Re: CS>Lunar CS making

2001-12-25 Thread S & J Young
I can't let this go by without commenting. In my view, the best time to make CS is anytime you need some more. I challange anyone to demonstrate how the position of the moon in relation to the Earth can possibly make any difference to the production of CS. It would be helpful if those posting su

Re: CS>Gotta Brag!

2001-12-21 Thread S & J Young
Congrats on conquering another semester. Now you have the perfect opportunity to track down the BYU profs who have (still are?) researched CS and let us know the latest findings. --Steve - Original Message - From: "Marshalee Hallett" To: Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:00 PM Subject: R

Re: CS>question about purity of CS wires

2001-12-21 Thread S & J Young
. and 99.99% are exactly the same. 1% is .01, 99% is .99, 99.9% is .999, etc. --Steve - Original Message - From: "Nina Silver, Ph.D." To: "Silver List" Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 6:06 PM Subject: CS>question about purity of CS wires > List, > I would think that the designation

Re: CS>RE: a reason to buy 400ppm CS

2001-12-09 Thread S & J Young
Bike generators are really alternators & put out AC typically. You can't put two in series unless you somehow get them to turn exactly the same RPM and exactly the same phase relationship. Best to rectify & filter (a storage battery can act as the filter) the output of each bike generator and put

CS>Effects of Polarity Reversing on LVDC CS

2001-11-22 Thread S & J Young
Happy Thanksgiving Day, Some time ago I tried polarity reversing experiments with constant current, stirred LVDC method. I think the reversal time was somewhere between half and one minute. What I found was for the same brew time and all other conditions being constant, the reversal CS was not n

Re: CS>IK cure of DEHYDRATION

2001-11-12 Thread S & J Young
Duncan, I take Microhydrin daily also, washed down with some CS. I believe Flanagan & company claim Microhydrin helps make other supplements more effective. Do you have any idea if that applies to CS? --Steve - Original Message - From: "Duncan Crow" To: "Igor Kaplun" ; Sent: Monday, N

Re: CS>Question for those using mechanical stirring

2001-11-10 Thread S & J Young
Arnold, In my experience, stirring reduces it, but does not eliminate it. My stirring is a rather gentile 30 RPM - maybe more vigorous stirring would be better. --Steve - Original Message - From: "Arnold Beland" To: Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2001 2:14 PM Subject: CS>Question for thos

CS>Ivan's CS calculator

2001-11-09 Thread S & J Young
Ivan, Thanks for the equation & spread sheet. Now for the practicalities: It is obvious by the crud that forms on the electrodes and falls to the bottom that not all the silver being electrolytically removed from the electrode ends up as colloids. And some of the silver ends up as ions. So wh

Re: CS>BYU WAYYY OT!!

2001-10-27 Thread S & J Young
But Mike, The Cougars are the team of the University which has been doing very good research on Colloidal Silver! Maybe the team is using it with their Gatorade?? --Steve (who is a graduate of BYU) - Original Message - From: "M. G. Devour" To: Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 6:02 PM Sub

Re: CS>ADVICE ON MIXING..PLEASE

2001-10-27 Thread S & J Young
Dan, OK, I'll answer - see comments below. - Original Message - From: "daniel johnson" To: Sent: Saturday, October 27, 2001 11:16 AM Subject: CS>ADVICE ON MIXING..PLEASE > Hello all, > > I have sent a message out twice under "magnetic mixing pros/cons" with no responses. Maybe th

CS>Huperzine A

2001-10-26 Thread S & J Young
List, This is off topic, but just curious if any of you have had experience and results using Huperzine A. Please reply directly to me so as to not clutter up the list with non-CS stuff. Thanks, --Steve -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or qu

Re: CS>appropriate technology and nebulizers

2001-10-18 Thread S & J Young
Reid, Go for it! Anything that makes a fine spray is fair game. Some of the nasal decongestant spray bottles make a fairly fine spray. Be innovative - get a tank with two connections at the top. Use one to fill the tank with water at faucet pressure and the other to be a source of air for your

Re: CS>Re: an appropriate technology atomizer

2001-10-18 Thread S & J Young
Arm-powered nebulizers: How about a new or well cleaned used hand pump style garden sprayer (bug or weed sprayer) as a source of compressed air to run an airbrush nebulizer? 1 gallon size should be plenty big. --Steve - Original Message - From: "Reid Harvey" To: "silver digest" Sent: W

Re: CS PPM Meter

2001-10-13 Thread S & J Young
Julie and Gary, The Hannah PWT is a good instrument for its intended purpose which is to get an idea of the purity of water. It also has limited value in measuring CS brews. However, check the archives. A few years ago Ivan did some measurements and found he had to multiply the Hanna PWT readin

Re: CS>AC adaptor/CS

2001-10-13 Thread S & J Young
Gary, Upon what do you base your assertion that 10 ppm brew will measure about 15kOhm, and 5 ppm will measure about 20 kOhm? As I understand it, the kOhms will relate to the amount of silver ions in the brew, not the ppm of silver colloids. Do you assume the rate of production of colloids and io

CS>Nebulizer Ideas

2001-10-10 Thread S & J Young
List, Brooks Bradley has extolled the virtues of Harbor Freight airbrushes for making extremely finely atomized CS "fog" for respiratory therapies. So I bought a couple on sale. Needing a source of air, I decided to try one of the cheap 12 volt tire pump air compressors which plug into auto ciga

Re: CS>Re: voltage tripler

2001-10-08 Thread S & J Young
Joseph, Of course, you will actually spend MORE on batteries with your converter-tripler. The current draw from the battery will be more than 3 times from the three nine volt batteries, since the converter efficiency is probably around 70 to 80%. Thus you will have to replace the batteries more

Re: CS>Terry's Questions

2001-10-06 Thread S & J Young
Terry, I guess I fall in the category of user and amateur techie. You ask very interesting and important questions. As best I can tell from monitoring this list for years, the answers are still not known much beyond educated guesses. To know the answers will require much expensive research. Exp

Re: CS>I'm looking for a helpful CS list

2001-10-02 Thread S & J Young
Judy, I think all you have to do is ask some specific questions and you will find list members willing to answer them. Try it! But first please take some time to search the archives where many questions have been answered many times. Then, if you still have questions, ask away! Maybe Mike can

Re: CS>Controlled current or current limiting?

2001-09-22 Thread S & J Young
Mike, The LM334 works fine. The only problem with any of the below devices is that they can only withstand about 30 volts maximum. With really good distilled water, it will take a while for the current to ramp up to 1 ma or whatever your constant current setup produces. You need upwards of 150

Re: CS>AC or dc, more than one kind of each

2001-09-22 Thread S & J Young
Solar, Thanks for the very interesting post. I and no doubt others would appreciate you describing in some detail how you make HVAC CS, so we can try it for ourselves. Yes, I realize dangerous voltages are used, and only those comfortable and experienced in HV should build their own. (I build T

CS>Cheap Air Brush Nebulizer

2001-08-31 Thread S & J Young
Hi list, The highly recommended by Brooks Bradley Harbor Freight air brush for CS aerosol treatments is on sale now for only $4.99, at least in this area and perhaps on the Internet as well. --Steve -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit si

CS>Stirring Motors

2001-06-10 Thread S & J Young
Dear list, I note the subject of stirring your CS as it brews is again popular, and various schemes of using small high speed DC motors have been described. What is best is stirring in the range of 30 - 60 RPM. This slow, gentle stirring is ideal and is what a few commercial generators use. All

CS with other stuff

2001-05-24 Thread S & J Young
Hi listees, Question: are there any known non-harmful foods, herbs or medications which, if taken along with CS, cause problems or negate benefits? Thanks, --Steve -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an

Re: CS and intestinal bacteria

2001-05-18 Thread S & J Young
Hi Marsha, OK, all the world wants to know, or at least most of us on this list, what are the latest research finding of the BYU Profs who are studying CS? Thanks in advance, --Steve - Original Message - From: "Marsha Hallett" To: Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 7:21 AM Subject: Re: CS and i