Half-Gallon Ball Canning Jars for Making Colloidal Silver

Most people make colloidal silver in one-quart glass containers.  

But if you’d like to make larger than one-quart batches of colloidal silver, here’s some good news…

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It's canning season again, and Walmart has the half-gallon Ball canning jars on sale. 

So if you like making larger than one-quart batches of colloidal silver at a time, these half-gallon sized canning jars are perfect for the job. 

I just picked up this case of six half-gallon Ball canning jars for $11.47 at Walmart.  That works out to about $1.91 apiece -- a great price!

You can also find them online through some of the sources listed in my article, “Online Sources for Glass Containers for Making, Storing and Using Colloidal Silver,” at this link.  But buying them at Walmart saves you the shipping costs.

I’m told that Ace Hardware also carries these over-sized canning jars.  And if they don’t have any in stock, they’ll order them for you.    

Longer Silver Rods

Keep in mind that the Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator is designed to make one-quart batches of colloidal silver. 

So when you increase the size of your glass production container to the half-gallon size, you have to use longer silver rods, due to the higher water volume and larger container. 

The silver rods need to reach from the bottom of your generator to about an inch from the bottom of your glass production container. 

Of course, that’s not a problem because you can easily get five foot rolls of the pure .999 fine 12 gauge silver wire from TheSilverEdge.com, and cut your rods to length as needed with a simple pair of tin snips or wire cutters. 

See this link for ordering bulk rolls of silver wire at special discount pricing:  www.999PureSilverWire.com.   

Longer Production Time

You also have to increase your production time when making larger batches of colloidal silver. 

For example, if you’re using a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, you’d usually let the machine run for three hours for a one-quart batch of 10 ppm colloidal silver. 

But if you use a half-gallon sized glass production container, you’ll need to let the generator run for six hours, instead. 

The basic, rule-of-thumb is to let the generator run for three hours for every quart of colloidal silver you’re making. 

If you’d like to learn how to make even larger, gallon-sized batches of colloidal silver, watch my short video explaining exactly how to do it, at this link. 

Silver Oxide Coating

Also keep in mind that due to the longer production time required for making significantly larger batches of colloidal silver, your silver rods will probably produce a little more silver oxide coating than usual, which is quite normal. 

I’ve made full, one-gallon sized batches in which the silver oxide coating on the silver rods actually began to look like little gray “hairs” growing off the silver rods. 

Again, this is perfectly normal, and it’s why we supply the little green “scrubby pad” with each generator, so you can clean your silver rods after each batch.

If some of the silver oxide happens to "fleck" off of the silver rods into your colloidal silver solution toward the end of the production run, just pour the finished batch through an unbleached paper coffee filter, available at any supermarket.  It’s very simple to do. Here’s how: 

First, use a rubber band to fasten an unbleached paper coffee filter to the lid of a wide-mouthed glass jar (see photo). 

Then, slowly pour the finished colloidal silver solution through the paper coffee filter.  (See short video on how to do it, here.) 

The tiny submicroscopic silver particles will go right through the porous paper coffee filter, but any silver oxide “flecks” and larger silver particle agglomerates will be filtered out.

Making Your Own Colloidal Silver

If you’ve never made your own colloidal silver, you should definitely consider doing so.  After all, a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator costs only $239 right now if you take advantage of the current $100 savings deal. (Don’t hesitate, the price is going up soon.)

And with this generator, you can make a half-gallon batch of colloidal silver for about 76 cents!

By comparison, a tiny, four-ounce bottle of colloidal silver in most health food stores runs anywhere from $20 to $30 or more.  That means a half gallon’s worth of colloidal silver at health food store prices would cost you close to $320 or more. 

So with a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator, you’re first half-gallon batch literally pays for the entire cost of your generator, and then some!

And after your first few batches, it’s as close to “free” colloidal silver as you can come!

Indeed, it’s so inexpensive to make, you can literally afford to bathe in it, if you wanted to.  In fact, many of our customers pour a quart of colloidal silver into the bathwater during a tub soak for its soothing and youth-enhancing effects on the skin. 

And hot tub users will find they can totally replace their chlorine or bromine treatments with a quart of colloidal silver added to the hot tub every week or so.

What’s more, because you can make your own high-quality colloidal silver so inexpensively, you can literally afford to give it away to family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers when they’re feeling ill or under the weather. 

In fact, most people who purchase a Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge suddenly find themselves to be the most popular person on the block – particularly during cold and flu season!

Everybody suddenly wants colloidal silver.  So it truly comes in handy to learn how to make larger batches of colloidal silver at a time!

To learn how to obtain a new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge while they’re still on sale for $100 off, just click this link. 

To learn more about making and using colloidal silver, just click the link in this sentence.

Meanwhile, I’ll be back next week with another great article on making and using colloidal silver…

Yours for the safe, sane and responsible use of colloidal silver,

Steve Barwick, author
The Ultimate Colloidal Silver Manual

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How to Make a Colloidal Silver Generator

How to Make A Crude But Effective Colloidal Silver Generator

You’d be crazy not to own a high-quality colloidal silver generator in this new era of viral pandemic threats, bioterrorism and strange new infectious diseases.

But if you simply can’t afford one right now, here’s something you can do to help provide yourself and your family with at least a small measure of added protection in an emergency situation during which commercial brands of colloidal silver simply may not be available anywhere, at any price.

You can easily make a crude but effective emergency batch of colloidal silver with two 6" strands of pure .999 fine silver wire, and a simple 9-volt battery (the little square batteries that fit into the palm of your hand, available for a few bucks at any Wal-Mart). Be sure to use a new 9-volt battery, so it's fully charged.

You can get the pure .999 fine silver wire for about $20, here: www.thesilveredge.com/wire.shtml

Just use a pair of needle nose pliers to bend the ends of the silver wire so that they will fit tightly over the two small battery posts on your 9-volt battery.

The silver wire needs to hang down evenly spaced from the two posts. Next, place two popsicle sticks (or crafts sticks) across the top of a 16 oz. glass filled with pure steam-distilled water. (See photo at top of article.)

Lay the 9 volt battery on its flat side, on top of the two popsicle sticks, so that the two strands of silver wire hanging from the battery posts are able to drape down into the water. (See photo at top of article.)

The two popsicle sticks are used to keep the battery out of the water, while you submerge the two connected strands of silver wire into the water.You need to make sure that at least four inches or more of both silver wires are submerged into the distilled water. (See photo at top of article.)

Don't let the silver wires touch each other while they are hanging in the water, or it will short out the battery and drain it within a few minutes, and you won't get any colloidal silver.

As soon as the two strands of silver wire are submerged into the water, electricity will start flowing from the battery through the wires, and tiny particles of silver will be driven off the silver wire and into the water, where they will be suspended with an electrical charge.

50 Minutes to an Hour for a 5-10 ppm Batch

Leave the silver wires submerged for about 50 minutes to an hour. Then simply lift the battery off the popsicle sticks, pulling the silver wires out of the water.

Use a plastic spoon to stir the solution slightly, so as to evenly disperse the microscopic silver particles.

When using pure steam-distilled water, this will give you anywhere from 5 to 10 ppm in your 16-ounce ounce batch. And if you used high-quality distilled water as instructed, your batch should be perfectly clear in color. (If it turns out to be cloudy, this indicates excessive mineral content in the water you started out with. In such a case, you can use it for topical purposes, but you should not use it internally. Just find a better brand of pure, steam-distilled water, and start over with a fresh 9-volt battery.)

Don’t be concerned if your pure silver wires turn gray or even black during the colloidal silver-making process. That is simply silver oxide, from the reaction between the electricity, the water and the silver. It cannot hurt you. After you’re done, you can clean the silver oxide off the silver wires with a small kitchen scrubby pad.

And if any of the silver oxide residue comes off the silver wires and gets into your colloidal silver solution during the colloidal silver-making process, don’t worry. Just pour your solution into another glass container through a paper coffee filter in order to catch the visible silver oxide particles. That will solve the problem.

Storing your Emergency Batch of Colloidal Silver

To store your emergency batch of colloidal silver, just pour it into a dark colored glass bottle with a plastic lid or cork stopper. An old wine bottle, or even an old beer bottle, will do the trick nicely.

Some health food stores sell dark-colored amber glass bottles called Boston Rounds, for this purpose. You can even find them online by doing a Google search.

Once your emergency batch of colloidal silver is bottled, be sure to put it into a dark kitchen cabinet, away from bright lights.

The reason you’ll want to use a dark-colored glass bottle rather than a clear bottle, and also store your colloidal silver in a dark cabinet, is because silver made in such a crude fashion is very sensitive to light. If exposed to too much light it will tarnish and fall out of suspension in the water, making a gray looking coating at the bottom of the storage container. Using a dark-colored glass bottle for storage, and placing it into a dark cabinet, prevents this.

(One of the benefits of making colloidal silver with a high-quality colloidal silver generator, such as the new Micro-Particle Colloidal Silver Generator from The Silver Edge, is that you won't ever have this problem! Indeed, colloidal silver produced by a good, high-quality colloidal silver generator is so stable it can be stored even in clear glass bottles.)

If you don't have a dark colored glass bottle to store your silver in, simply use a clear glass bottle, and put it into a child's lunch sack to keep the light out. Then put the bottle and sack into a cabinet for storage.

You can use a plastic bottle instead of glass, if that's all you have available. But your colloidal silver will keep much longer if you store it in glass. Plastic tends to draw silver particles to it, due to the effects of static electricity. And when your silver particles start to stick to the sides of the plastic storage container they lose their electrical charge and become worthless, medicinally speaking. So glass storage bottles are always best.

If you need to make additional emergency batches, you can use the two strands of pure .999 fine silver over and over again.

Important Disclaimer

Colloidal silver made this way should be used for emergency purposes only, when store-bought colloidal silver is unavailable, and you do not have access to a high-quality, professionally manufactured colloidal silver generator such as the ones at The Silver Edge (i.e., http://www.thesilveredge.com).

That's because, when you make colloidal silver in this crude fashion, there are no rate-limiting electronics or other technology controlling the flow of electrical current, and the rate and size at which the silver particles leave the silver wire. And thus, the size of the silver particles you produce through this method will be rather large. The silver particles will also tend to agglomerate into larger particle clusters.

Colloidal silver of such a low-quality and large particle size is certainly not something you’d want to be ingesting on a daily basis for the rest of your life. After all, overly large silver particles are not easily processed by the human body. And if taken over long periods of time, they may increase your risk of argyria, or skin-greying.

That’s why, for regular usage, you want professionally manufactured colloidal silver – either purchased through a reputable health food store vendor, or made yourself with a professionally designed, high-quality colloidal silver generator.

Generally speaking, your emergency batch of colloidal silver won’t cause you any harm, as long as it is only used as a temporary, stop-gap measure until you can find some commercially prepared colloidal silver, or a high-quality colloidal silver generator to make it.

Indeed, your little emergency batch of colloidal silver could even help save your life, or the life of someone you love, during a crisis situation in which access to high-quality colloidal silver becomes problematic.

But if you plan on making and using colloidal silver regularly, as a means of boosting your family’s health and vitality and keeping them safe from infection and disease, this is definitely not the way to make it. A word to the wise should be sufficient.

See the Demonstration

In the brand new, studio-quality, 60-minute Colloidal Silver Secrets video (available in DVD or VHS formats) I give a hands-on demonstration of how to make this little emergency unit in under 30 seconds.

Plus I demonstrate three popular types of high-quality colloidal silver generators, and show you how to choose the right colloidal silver generator for your specific needs.

I also demonstrate many more unique, highly effective and little-known ways to use colloidal silver to protect yourself and your family against infection and disease, and to maximize the infection-fighting qualities of colloidal silver.

To learn more about this inexpensive, eye-opening new “how to” video featuring yours truly, go to: http://www.colloidalsilversecretsvideo.com/

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