4 Grand Master
I think the issue would be the quality of your tap water.
I have a private well with water so full of minerals it requires $5000 worth of equipment to make it suitable for bathing(without it a single shower would turn me to a stalagmite) and reverse osmosis for drinking.
When I had access to the fine water of lake Michigan it went in my rads for 30+ years with no ill effect.
I wouldn't think of putting what comes from my well in a cooling system, either distilled from the grocery store or the drinking water from the RO tap.
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With a user name of h2oyo I gotta believe you know a little about it. What are we talking about? Mixing 50/50 water and coolant and you use about a gallon and a half of distilled water? Lotta discourse over a buck and a half.
Just remember. Don't eat the fish but you can drink the water.
3 Grand Master
the last time that i drank a bottle water sized bottle of DI water, I woke up 3 or 4 hours later believing that my appendix had burst. it was from a semiconductor manufacturing facility, (won't say what company, they really aren't in business anymoreOriginally Posted by paanta
DI water is actually totally safe. It'll pull minerals out of your body, but in such small quantities that it wouldn't be a huge problem unless you drank A LOT.
Distilled in the car except in emergencies. It's a buck a gallon and I keep a few in the garage. It costs me $.50 a year to run on distilled. That seems like a reasonable investment.) so i'm sure that it wasn't impure or dirty. i remember, however, the DI water in a chemistry lab at the university of florida clocking in at a ph of about 6.7 or so, no matter which tap i pulled it from.
the cooling systems on these cars were bleeding edge for the late 80s. I don't see many cars, even today, with 15lb operating pressures. I don't see why it is that inconceivable to see why, when north america has different drinking water chemistries than northern europe, that putting tap water in there might have unexpected consequences.
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I use water from my reverse osmosis drinking water system at home. It's not pure distilled, but it's damn close - close enough for a cooling system or lead acid battery. Unfiltered tap water has too much calcium and iron in these parts.
3 Grand Master
A handy map of UK hard water areas:
http://www.dwi.gov.uk/pubs/hardness/index.htm
I live in the area between Manchester and Leeds and can get away with tap water. When I lived in Kent, I'd have had to be brain dead to use it - a lot of the drinking water comes out of bore holes. And you dont get any brownie points for guessing what the white cliffs of Dover are made of
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