D-Stil Lite(tm) Do It Yourself Emergency Survival Water Distiller

Our city has a very old water purification and delivery system that is prone to equipment breakdowns and loss of system line pressure that can compromise the integrity and safety of the water in the water delivery system mains and lines. These breakdowns and pressure losses have caused several emergency "boil water orders" to be declared on all water for drinking, cooking, bathing and laundry for major portions of the city in the last few years. Each of these "boil water orders" have lasted, on the average, for 36 to 48 hours until laboratory test results of water samples taken from several locations throughout the system come back with micro-organism levels at "safe" levels. Boiling water for the required length of time does kill the micro-organisms in the water, but it does not remove their dead structures or any other contaminants that may have gotten into the water delivery system's mains and lines during a low system water pressure event. Boiling only concentrates those contaminants in the water being boiled for drinking,cooking, bathing and laundry. Filtering with the appropriate water filter could remove those contaminants after the water has cooled, but that requires handling the water a second time. Also, filters can become dirty and clogged, be unable to remove some types of contaminants such as pesticides, herbicides, pharmaceuticals or benzine-based products, or can fail for other reasons. When a family's drinking, cooking, bathing and laundry water is concerned, FAILURE IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE OUTCOME! Chlorination of water of unknown safety is another possible option, but requires numerous steps that must be performed properly at the precise time to be effective and can leave a bad taste in the water that must be dealt with by adding more "flavoring" chemicals to the water. Distillation of water involves putting water of unknown safety or quality into a boiler unit (a 10-Quart Aluminium Stock Pot with a thicker, reinforced bottom and top) over a heat source able to raise the temperature of the water to boiling, which converts the liquid water into water vapor (steam), with only H2O and no micro-organisms or other forms of contaminants included. The steam rises from into this D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation Unit, which sits beneath the condenser unit (a 26-Quart Aluminium Stock Pot, inside of which both the 10-Quart Boiler Pot and the D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation Unit will fit, reducing the required storage space for the system) which contains cold or cool water. When the steam comes in contact with the bottom of the condenser unit, it lowers the temperature of the steam and converts it back into liquid water. Gravity then causes the now distilled liquid water to collect and drain out of this D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation Unit's distillate hose into a distilled water collection unit. In my system, the distilled water collection unit is a New Wave Enviro Products 1-Gallon Glass Jug (two jugs in total).When my non-electric D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation System has produced enough distilled water to fill one of the jugs, I remove the cap from the empty second jug, remove the distillate hose from the filled first jug, replace the first jug with the second jug and put the cap on the filled first jug. While the D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation Unit continues to produce safe distilled water for drinking, cooking, bathing and doing laundry, I carry the filled jug to my 5-gallon water storage containers, remove the filling lid from the container, remove the cap from the first jug, empty its distilled water into the 5-gallon water storage container, and replace and re-tighten the container's filling lid. I put the cap on the glass jug I just emptied, to prevent anything from getting inside it, and return to the non-electric D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation System. When the second jug is filled I repeat the same process until I have produced enough distilled water to fill all of my water storage containers. I also wear a pair of high-temperature resistant gloves whenever I'm working around the steam produced by the D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation Unit, which can come out of the end of the distillate hose going into the glass water collection jug if the water temperature in the top condenser unit gets to be too high and less steam is condensed into liquid water.Now that I have my non-electric D-STIL Lite(tm) DIY Emergency Water Distillation System I can use on top of the large burner of my kitchen range, or on a heavy-duty steel grate over a large campfire (in the event of our evacuation from a natural disaster, man-made disaster or other "NO B.S. SHTF" event), I no longer have to worry about the condition of the city's water purification plant and distribution system's maintenance level or the safety of my family's water supply for drinking, cooking, bathing or laundry. My two New Wave Enviro Products 1-Gallon Clear Glass Jugs also play a very important role in the successful production of safe, high quality water for my family. While getting the water we need isn't as simple as it used to be, when we would simply turn on a water faucet to get a drink of water, wash our face, hands, body and hair, or turn on the washing machine without a thought of the quality or safety of that water coming from city's water utility (which is NO LONGER A SENSIBLE OPTION since the water utility can no longer be depended upon to deliver a safe product anymore), there is a satisfaction and feeling of comfort in knowing the water we now have to use is perfectly safe, healthy, and has a pleasant taste and aroma,

I Cant Find The Right Pan To Fit This Distiller At My Local Store! Can Someone Give Me Some Advice?Every One I Try Does Not Fit Right!

i've been hearing a lot about puerto rico since the hurricane- not a nuclear war or asteroid impact... just a natural disaster- which wiped out their entire electrical grid, likely for up to six months. no electricity, no food refrigeration or distribution system, no clean water. and natural disasters (of various kinds) can happen anywhere. i've got portable purifiers and filters for clean water, but none of those work well (or at all) against chemical or organic toxins or seawater (salt water). your only option there is distillation: turning the contaminated water to steam, leaving behind the contaminates, and condensing the steam back into pure water again. i've rigged up a couple distillers on my own that work, but they're not pretty and won't hold up for long. i'm sure i could do better if i took the time, but i ran across this a while back. it's been in my amazon shopping cart for months now. after seeing what happened to puerto rico, i just ordered one.i've seen similar ones for 2-3 times as much. i still think this is expensive and wish it were cheaper, but i finally bit the bullet and got one. it came yesterday. went to walmart during lunch today and bought two cheap 16 qt. stainless steel stockpots at $11 each (i had to slightly bend the handles on the bottom pot downward just a tad so the d-stil would set flat on the rim of the lower pot). filled the bottom pot about half full with a coffee & salt solution (i was looking for something that included both a color and a taste metric).i turned on the stove burner and heated the watery sludge in the bottom pot until it reached a boil (some toxins have a lower boiling point than water. they'll be the first stuff to evaporate off- you don't want to catch and distill them into your purified water! let them "burn off" first. allow it to boil for a minute or so to purge those.).after a couple minutes, i put the distiller in place, and covered it with the second pot which was half full of cold tap water (being sure to center the bottom of the top pot over the circular silicone seal so that no steam escapes between the d-stil and the bottom of the top pot). i placed the end of the food-grade silicone tube in a pitcher on the counter beside the stove but away from the heat source. within two minutes clear water started dripping from the tube into the pitcher. soon it was running out at a consistent rate. there was ABSOLUTELY no hint of any salt taste in the distilled water. there was a TINY hint of coffee taste or smell- but i honestly don't know if that was in the water or in the air (from boiling coffee for 30 minutes!). btw- the newly distilled pure water comes out just-this-side-of-boiling! let that stuff cool before drinking!i ran the distiller for 30 minutes and collected 5 cups of water. at that rate, i would've gotten a gallon of water in a little over 90 minutes. that's a lot longer than it takes to open a bottle of water, or to fill a glass from the tap... but if there IS no bottled water or tap water, that's a great rate for pure water- from a pond, water trough, ditch, mud puddle or swimming pool. we've got about a 20-acre community lake behind our house. i figure that's our emergency water source if there's a crisis. i did my distillation test on a gas-burner kitchen stove, but it could just as easily have been done over a gas or charcoal grill, dakota fire pit, or the glowing embers of a camp fire.a couple of tips i'll pass on which i discovered during my experiment:1) everything gets HOT... REALLY hot! be careful.2) the cooler the water in your top pot, the more efficient the condensation process. and you can use water from the same dirty water source in your top cooling pot that you use in your evaporating bottom pot.3) since the water in the top pot gets hot as it absorbs the heat from the steam rising from the bottom pot, after boiling down the water in the bottom pot, refill it with hot water from your top pot. then refill the top pot with fresh (cooler) dirty water. by using already hot water in your bottom pot, it won't take as much fuel to heat it to boiling.4) although the water will most certainly be biologically and chemically pure, it MAY still retain a remnant hint of smell or taste from it's source (swamp water may still have a faint swamp water smell), so maybe keep a can of powdered drink mix on hand to disguise any taste/smell you don't like. you can also use (make?) a charcoal filter which will remove any remaining smell or taste.5) due to the design of the "d-stil" unit, the TOP of the BOTTOM pot must be between 8" and 12" in diameter, and the BOTTOM of TOP pot must be a minimum of 10" in diameter. you can see that those dimensions would allow a top pot larger than the bottom pot. that doesn't strike me as a safe, stable tower for boiling hot water! although you could use a slightly smaller top pot (10") than bottom pot (12"), i opted for two identical pots (10 1/2" diameter), which proved very stable in my experiment.i love the d-stil. well worth the money! highly recommended!

Works well. Should use a new stainless steal pot. During distillation the water picks up the flavor of what was cooked in the pot previously. It's easier to do the boiling outside. Less steam in the house. Had to refill the top pot with cold water a lot.Overall great durable product.