Same here Neville, I just use paper towel and all the grey comes off nicely in second and I always have clear CS every time. I forgot to ask about your strange phenomena and how it turned out. So it was never really resolved? Cèst là vie! Dee
Sent from my iPad > On 18 Feb 2015, at 01:21, 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: >