Thanks for this post Neville. It helps me feel more comfortable with what I'm
doing. I have little scientific experience, and your down-to-earth explanation
Is appreciated. Seems to me I read on here somewhere that anything above
5ppm is a waste anyway.
I don't have the know how, equipment or funds to get into the formulas and
high tech side of all this. I am one doing it in the kitchen.
Bye the way, what Do you use to clean your anodes?
Opa
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> On Feb 17, 2015, at 7:21 PM, Neville <one.red...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> It would seem everything old becomes new again, trying to re-invent the
> wheel. Scrub pads vs paper towel vs whatever else one may choose in cleaning
> their electrodes, I know my preference, and it isn't steel or plastic scrub
> pads, not that it really matters a hoot in the grand scheme of things on the
> home front, it's a kitchen they are producing this stuff in, not a sterile
> climate controlled laboratory environment. {opinion}
>
> OK, paper towel may have some salt residue or whatever else as a result of
> the manufacturing process, but then scrub pads, and I'll assume stainless
> steel pads for one example, contains any number of things, chromium, nickel
> etc etc. There is no way I will accept that in the electrode scrubbing
> process there will not be some contaminants ground into the silver electrode,
> besides the excessive abrasive effect on that electrode from scrubbing.
> Similarly with the "plastic?" scrub pads, what contaminants are being ground
> into the electrodes from the plastic during that scrubbing process, besides
> the added surface imperfections created on those electrodes from scrubbing?
> And I don't believe any of that can be eliminated simply by washing
> electrodes in DW? Electrodes should be kept as smooth and imperfection free
> as possible I would have thought. Even after probably the first batch
> produced using brand new electrodes those electrodes will not be smooth
> anymore, why would anyone want to compound that?
>
> Where, and for what purpose are most producing their EIS? I thought it was
> predominantly the home kitchen LVDC production method used by most here, and
> for general use by all and sundry for all and sundry health purposes? If
> not, then there's one reason new folk don't join or stick around long maybe,
> it goes over their heads as simple home producers? I don't have a need to
> know the complexities in the chemistry involved, all I want/need to know is
> the basics and I can take it from there by research to my satisfaction.
>
> As for Jasons comment about nobody responding or stagnation or new ideas or
> whatever, I posted something several months ago about fall out. I filtered
> that batch and within days more fall out was observed, I filtered it a second
> time and again *still* got some plating or fall out on the bottom of my
> storage vessel a day or three later...??? And I think the "fall out" or
> plate out was in the *centre* of the vessel. No answers were forthcoming
> from memory, but my memory isn't what it once was either so I guess someone
> will put me right on that. I put it down to a bad batch of DW, among other
> "unknowns?" and NO, I don't bother testing the DW prior to production any
> more, did plenty of that over a time before and don't see a need to do it for
> an eternity for my purposes. As well as it perhaps being a bad batch of DW
> from manufacture I reckon the stir bar action had something to do with it,
> {strange forces in nature or physics of which I fail to comprehend} mainly
> because the fallout from memory was only in the *centre* of the vessel as
> opposed to a general spread? Strange goings on indeed?
>
> So there's something new of which I have never heard of or observed before?
> This had never happened before in over 10 years of my involvement with this
> stuff, and has not been repeated since? I'm curious to know what was going
> on at *that* time?
>
> Perhaps you could help me out here with this one Jason?
>
> Back to the pads, perhaps someone can tell me then why scrubbing pads
> would/should be considered preferable to paper towel, or even toilet paper
> for that matter? I can live with the minuscule amount of salt residue from
> paper, but I won't live with the metals in stainless steel or poly-whatever
> it's called in plastic.
>
> N.
>
> > Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 09:02:37 -0800
> > From: ja...@eytonsearth.org
> > To: silver-list@eskimo.com
> > Subject: Re: CS>Forum
> >
> > Hi Mary:
> >
> > There is really no need to do anything but rinse whatever scrub pad you
> > are using with distilled water.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > On 2/17/2015 6:53 AM, mborg...@att.net wrote:
> > >
> > > Jason I have always wondered about cleaning the electrodes I thought
> > > that you could clean with paper towels but I wondered about residue.
> > > So how do you go about cleaning them with steel wool??? Do you pull
> > > off part of the steel wool and discard or just use the whole piece?
> > > How do you clean the steel wool?
> > > Mary-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 2/16/15,
> > > Jason <ja...@eytonsearth.org> wrote:
>
