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It took me a while, but I found a post I made late last year on how to build and operate my CS generator.
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I think my home-generation kit rocks! ...and it doesn´t cost an arm and a leg, either. Best thing is the procedure is repeatable, checks itself, and makes a gallon at a time.
One gallon glass jar One 10oz .999 pure silver bar Two strands of shielded #12 houshold solid wire (some call this romex) one foot long Two strands of very thin shielded wire (to connect the batteries) Three 9 volt batteries (the little rectangular ones) One two inch by three inch piece of thin but dense foam or rubber Two wire nuts One small can of liquid-plastic.
*Setup*
*The Electrodes*
Have a steel fabrication shop cut your silver bar in half...longways. The two halves will become your electrodes.
Strip about half inch of sheilding from both ends of both #12 wires.
Drill one hole in the edge (end) of each electrode just the size of the #12 wire, so that you have to work and twist to insert the wire...make a tight fit. Make it fit so the wire sheilding buts into the end of the electrode (you can´t see any bare copper).
Pour liquid-plastic around the joint, and let it extend up the wire for an inch or so, as well as letting it cover the forst half inch to inch of the electrode.
Let the liquid plastic dry overnight.
Each electrode will look like a rectangular lollipop.
*The Generator*
Drill two holes in the top of the jar about two and one-half inches apart. These holes need to be slightly larger than the electrode wires so they can pass through. The idea is to drill the holes so the electrodes can sit in the jar opposite each other...centered in the jar.
The thin dense foam will be forced over the end of the electrode wires, coming to rest on the top of the jar´s lid, and this will allow you to adjust the height and orientation of the electrodes so they sit opposite each other at a central elevation in the jar....staying in place.
Take the three batteries and solder or otherwise connect the thin wires, one wire to each of two seperate batteries (the opposite terminals. To make the circuit complete, turning the generator "on," you will simply take the third battery, invert it to the other batteries which are side-by-side and connect then together...the batteries will snap together like they were made for this application. You will then have a very weak 27 volt generator.
*A run*
Take the gallon of distilled water and pour a little bit into the (already clean and dry) jar, just enough to swirl it a bit and dump it out. Then do it again.
Also rinse the electrodes with just a little distilled water, as well as the lid to the jar.
Set the electrodes in the jar and fill the jar with the balance of the distilled water. Recap the empty distilled water jug.
Slide the lid to the jar over the electrodes (through the drilled holes and then slide (force) the dense foam/rubber over the wires...adjusting the electrodes so they face each other and are elevated at about the middle of the jar. Tighten the lid.
Connect the thin wires coming from the batteries to the electrode wires, using the wire nuts. Be careful not to disorient the electrodes...if you do then readjust them.
Connect the third battery in series to the other two and your are now generating.
*Safety*
Colliodal silver is very safe, but impurities are not, so you have to make sure the solution is pure. Set a timer for 30 minutes. At the end of that time, if you see no evidence that the reaction has begun, you know for certian that your solution was pure...because electricity does not flow between the electrodes in a clean solution. Even one hour without a reaction is good. If the reaction begins before 30 minutes, throw everything out and start over. In time you will get a feel for how clean the set-up has to be to avoid getting a "false start."
Assuming you pass this very important step...
...eventually, the reaction will begin. First little bubbles will form on one of the electrodes. Then you will see little yellow wisps of silver between the electrodes...seemingly suspended in the solution.
At this point you can let your reaction run for 15 more minutes of you want a nice result that is clear. It is cool to see the silver "reaching" out from one electrode to the other...it lookes like it is building a bridge made of fan coral.
If you let it run longer, that´s ok, but at some point...perhaps 30 minutes or 45 minutes, your solution will turn yellow. This does not mean the solution is better. Certianly there is more silver in the solution, but not necessarily better.
Silver atoms cluster together. the larger the cluster, the yellow-er the solution will appear. However, the particle size of the yellow stuff isn´t what gives you the benefit.
Go ahead for fun and run a batch until you see it turning yellow (not very yellow...just SLIGHTLY yellow). Almost to the point to where you have to imagine that it is yellow. However yellow it is when you stop the generator, it will turn a shade or two more yellow as it sits. This is because the silver particles cluster on their own to a degree.
Siphon the colliodal silver back into the distilled water jug...avoid picking the grey residue that will have sropped down to the bottom of the jar from one of the electrodes. Also, the "fan coral" will sag as soon as you take the batteries apart and some may even break off...siphoning carefully will get you a nice clear gallon of colloidal silver you can show off.
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This method makes slightly less than a happy_bunnyer run. Keep the jug out of the light while storing.
I use a half-liter water bottle, fill it from the gallon jar, and put it on my desk...taking sips whenever I am thirsty.
I hope this helps someone who is looking for a really good way to produce colloidal silver.
What it does is limit your runs to a large amount of CS, it runs the reaction VERY slowly, which procuces the best CS (small particle size), it has a safety feature built in to assure purity, and it makes about $1,000 of CS per batch (based on an ounce of the stuff costing $15 at the whole foods store)!
enjoy.
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