Given the creativity of the community, wondering is anyone has repurposed an electric water heater
SS lined
Insulated
Produce potable hot water
Have one or two electric elements and all associated controllers
Cheap and big
All it needs is the appropriate TC ferrule
If I'm the first to have suggested this, I request we call it a "Nobay"
Repurpose an electric water heater?
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Re: Repurpose an electric water heater?
I think I read something here on the forum but I don't remember the post. Any boiler of suitable material can be used for distillation, there are several posts in which containers of all kinds have been used with the necessary changes. I also thought about it but here where I live the water heaters are not stainless steel but of iron with a treatment so I gave up.
Re: Repurpose an electric water heater?
in my neck of woods we still get copper water heaters geysers that is replaced by newer. most new is iron as Demmy says
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Re: Repurpose an electric water heater?
Getcha’ an old car radiator to use as a condenser and you’ll have a setup right out of the 1930’s (Prohibition Era).cIRCitmage wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:17 am Given the creativity of the community, wondering is anyone has repurposed an electric water heater....If I'm the first to have suggested this...
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Re: Repurpose an electric water heater?
I did this once, abandoned that project first time it came time to clean it.cIRCitmage wrote: ↑Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:17 am Given the creativity of the community, wondering is anyone has repurposed an electric water heater
Good luck.
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