It is really weird, because I used cold water after the first distilling, 
because I double distilled. This is when the reading went up.  I will try your 
advice though and see what happens.  I haven't actually made any CS with this 
batch, so it will be interesting to see what happens when I do.  dee

On 17 Nov 2009, at 00:35, Garnet wrote:

> Just rinse the distiller three times after washing with vinegar.
> 
> Distilling is going to remove contaminants from the water. So
> any slight traces of vinegar are being removed from the final
> product along with minerals and other impurities in the tap
> water.
> 
> If you are using hot tap water you might try using cold water
> since the hot water pipes are more likely to be contaminated.
> 
> Could be your meter, and if you have no way of calibrating
> the meter then you don't know if it is actually set to register
> zero when the water is zero.
> 
> Garnet
> 


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