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Where can I get distilled water?

When I was a young'un I built a small still out of a tin can and various bits of pipe, filled it with vodka and distilled it to make near 100% neat pure vodka-based alcohol. Now I need some distilled water, but I don't have the various bits of pipe any more.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:56, archived)
A garage
Or a stationers
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)
Steal it from a school chemistry lab.

(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)
Awesome
If I was going to venture into a school at my age, I'm sure I'd find plenty more worth having than just distilled water.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:03, archived)
Scoobies?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:09, archived)
Halfords
You use it for filling up car batteries.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)
Call me ignorant
but I thought car batteries were full of acid, not water. What's been going on in the world?!
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:58, archived)
Sorry
topping up car batteries. You're right (I think) but if the level of them drops you add distilled water (presumably the water evaporates but the acid doesn't).
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)
*hands over A-level in chemistry*
correct answer that man.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:08, archived)
I got a D
:(
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:10, archived)
slags.
did they swap your paper with that of some insignificant royal to get him into oxbridge via the back door? .. I bet they did you know ..
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:13, archived)
No, but in fairness
no one in my entire school got above a B that year. Not even the guys doing 5 A levels and getting As in all of them. Don't know what happened there really, seems everyone dropped a mark on their predicted.

I got a B in physics (if I'd done any course work it'd probably have been an A) and failed maths.

Coincidentally, 16-18 I started doing a lot of acid :P
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:18, archived)
ah, can't have been the drugs*
It must be a conspiricy ;)

*in fairness I turned up to a couple of my A-levels stoned out of my mind and it didn't do me any harm :P
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:22, archived)
Ah I'm not blaming the drugs
just I did really well at GCSE level and then got very interested in sex, drugs and rock and roll (and all night illegal dance parties) and stopped seeming to being that interested in thermodynamics.

I regret it slightly but a youth wasted isn't a wasted youth :)
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:27, archived)
fair enough
I didn't have those problems until my final year so didn't fuck myself up too badly. well, not academically anyway ... ;)
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:33, archived)
All the acid got used up by our parents/grandparents
at woodstock
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)
I thought that too
until revising for my theory test last week.

I also learned that if I adjust my chain incorrectly it could cause.. Oh.. Bugger.. Seem to have forgotten already.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:04, archived)
flanging, I suspect.
or more likely ... it to come off and decapitate a small child

/if you need to know about chains, what happens if you only want to ride a shaft-drive bike?
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:07, archived)
Ach it was
only for the theory test - everyone does the same one. And then instantly forgets it all :D
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:30, archived)
Just look at everyone else's reply
and look at yours.

You are the class swot.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:00, archived)
They sell it at McDonalds
if you buy 85 harpie meals.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)
Harpie meals?
Arf!
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:58, archived)
there's a machine that makes it
about 4 metres from where i'm sitting, if that's any help?
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 14:59, archived)
a kettle?

(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:00, archived)
Pfft!

(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:01, archived)
Chemists*,
I think.

*High street, retail outlets, not strange men in white coats.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:02, archived)
Or people from the democratic republic of chem

(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:03, archived)
Don't get me started on them.
Slit-eyed little bastards...
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:10, archived)
I never understood why countries put "democratic" in their names
it makes me immediately assume that they're run by totalitarian despots.
(, Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:11, archived)