Richard, After reading this post, I'm curious if you've found store-bought distilled water to be problematic. Eric --- Richard Knoppow <dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: That can be done with an > activated > charcoal filter, like a Brita filter. The > combination of a > Brita filter and boiling will remove nearly all the > impurities and is more trustworthy than grocery > store > "distilled" water. Also cheaper. > For the most part dissolved carbonates have > little or no > effect on photographic solutions although they can > cause > problems from deposits on the film or paper. Most > commercially packaged chemistry, certainly Kodak and > Ilford, > contain sequestering agents to hold these materials > in > suspension and are pretty invulnerable from the. > > --- > Richard Knoppow > Los Angeles, CA, USA > dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > ============================================================================================================= > To unsubscribe from this list, go to > www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the > same e-mail address and password you set-up when you > subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there. > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Tonight's top picks. What will you watch tonight? Preview the hottest shows on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ============================================================================================================= To unsubscribe from this list, go to www.freelists.org and logon to your account (the same e-mail address and password you set-up when you subscribed,) and unsubscribe from there.