on July 23, 2012 Keeping your plastic dry is critical. It greatly improves both printer reliability and print quality. A week ago, we announced our reusable indicating silica gel desiccants, along with some other products. While we mentioned in the product description that you can dry these out in a microwave to reuse them, we thought we'd give a little more guidance.How to Use our Reusable Indicating Silica Desiccants We found these handy little cloth bags, which will now be included with any of our desiccants: To use your desiccants, you have several options: Use the cloth bag that comes with your desiccants Put them in a square or pouch of spare cloth, or in a thin rag and secure shut using a rubber band or zip-tie Punch holes in the lid of an Altoids tin and put them in there (probably not the best among these options as it won't promote the best airflow; but it should still work, and similar setups are how many professional dehumidifier products work) Design and print a clever container to hold your desiccantsWhen to Recharge our Reusable Indicating Silica Desiccants

Make sure to check on your desiccants often. How often you'll need to change them depends greatly on the relative humidity in your area, on how air-tight your plastic storage is, and on how often you open that storage to access your plastic. Check frequently though, and make sure your desiccant hasn't changed color all the way. If the color change is complete (see below pictures to see comparisons between saturated and unsaturated), your desiccants have already stopped working for you. Ideally, you want to catch them when they're almost saturated, but when their color still hasn't completely changed. Here are the two desiccants we sell and a comparison of how they look when fresh versus when they are saturated: Blue to Pink Desiccant Fresh (Unsaturated) (Left) vs Saturated (Right) Orange to Green Desiccant Fresh (Unsaturated) (Left) vs Saturated (Right)How to Recharge (dry out) our Reusable Indicating Silica Desiccants Take your silica out of its container or bag and put it in a microwave safe dish that spreads the silica out fairly thin (like a normal plate).

In selecting your dish, keep in mind that you'll need to collect the silica from it afterwards, so something from which you can pour might make your life easier. Here is a before picture of some of our orange to green silica after having been exposed to moisture, spread out on a plate ready to be microwaved. Put the dish in the microwave and set it for a medium power defrost cycle (which offers an intermittent duty cycle, such as a few seconds on, a few seconds off, and so on). Watch it the whole time it is in, and stop it when it appears fairly orange. The time will depend on many factors (how saturated the silica is, how much silica you're recharging, what kind of dish you're using, how powerful your microwave is, what the duty cycle of the defrost setting is, your ambient humidity level, and probably others), but most likely 2 to 3 minutes will do the trick. Here is the plate of recharging orange to green silica after 1 minute in the microwave: And after 2 minutes:

Because of their temperature, the drying will continue even after the desiccants are out of the microwave, which brings us to Be very careful of the silica that has just come out of the microwave, it will be incredibly hot, as will the dish you microwaved them on. novita air purifier 301Check the temperature of the dish before picking it up and use a hot pad or oven mitt if necessary. olee air purifierAlso make sure not to set the plate on any heat-sensitive surfaces.hunter hepatech medium room air purifier Do not touch the silica while hot. When it is hot it can also become sticky to skin; so hot and sticky you'll wonder why it hasn't been weaponized. Over time the beads of silica may break down as they are used and recharged.

The granules will break apart. You can minimize this by using lower-power cycles on your microwave, by recharging it before it is quite as saturated, or, for maximum life, by recharging slowly in the oven. Also keep in mind that faster absorption of moisture, such as extremely high humidity and direct contact with liquids can cause the beads of silica to break down more quickly too. If you'd like to use the oven instead, set your oven to 170F, or it's lowest temperature if above 170F, and add your silica (on an oven-safe dish, of course). All the same safety rules apply, and make sure to keep an eye on it as before. Once cooled, return to the bag or other container for continued use. As soon as it's cool, it's ready to go again.Educational Material On Ozone, Equipment, Doctor Access, Doing Therapy at Home. I have two ozonators from Enaly. One is for room air, ozonating water, cleaning veggies and I had been using this one for medical purposes. Someone just contacted me who said that he knew someone who tested the ozone output on the enaly and found that they were only a fraction of what they claimed to be so there you have it.

But this ozonator has been used successfully for ozonating water and treating H-pylori infections. If it smells and tastes like ozone I think ozone is there…. you know, that old saying, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, it must be a duck.  The medical grade ozonator from Enlay requires a tank of oxygen to hook up to. These ozonators are very inexpensive and I can not verify the quality of ozone they produce. The Enlay I had been using puts out way more ozone that the one I purchased for $400 about 5 or 6 years ago that was junk and ended up in the trash. I would not count on and Enaly for most medical use but I have talked with others who have used them, in their opinion, successfully. Currently I use a Longevity ozonator. These are excellent and are used by medical professionals. This generator is great but is too expensive for most. Keep reading and I will tell you about another more affordable Longevity. / ) has all his very ill patients in Mexico use ozone and he sells an ozonator for home use but it is not medical grade!!

It is a large part of his program! Many of the alternative practitioners and fabricators insist that you must use medical grade but obviously Dr Donsbach thinks not. I do trust this man. What the truth is I do not know. If I were going to inject ozone directly into the blood stream it is necessary to have medical grade. Donsbach and most other practitioners promote insuffalation which is considered as effective or nearly as effective as IV application. At this point in my quest for ozone  what I recommend most is medical grade because this what most practitioners recommend. I do think that there is a political issue regarding medical verses nonmedical grade that I have not sorted out yet. I have used non medical grade to no ill effect  that I can determine (but I don’t do injection work) but now I have switched over. You can use the non medical grade to ozonate water and wash veggies, ozonate your home. /when I started ear insufflation for tinnitis this is what I used and it was effective in treating the problem but can not say if I suffered any unnoticed ill effect.

This site will answer many questions. Saul Pressman has been into the ozone thing for a long time and a lot of his advice is found here. His ozonators are about $1800!! Go search groups in Yahoo for ozonetherapy. No- here it is: This is Dr Saul Pressman’s other group. No chit chat here. Just direct answers to your questions. He sometimes takes a few days to respond so be patient. Plasamfire is his webpage where he sells ozone equipment. Here you will find the company phone number. He sells the correct regulator for a large mouth (opening) 02 tank that you can purchase at a welding shop. But now I have found a new on line shop to recommend for equipment that is less expensive than plasmafire or the Longevity home page. Look 4 rows down at Dual Dialectric Personal Ozone Generator for $595. (be careful, he moves the merchandise around on the page now and then) This machine is made by Longevity in Canada. It is capable of doing injection work and I now own one of their more expensive models but this will do what you need it to do.

And next to it is a pediatric oxygen regulator for about $100, designed to be placed on a welding oxygen tank with the large mouth opening. This site also sells excellent ozonated oil products. At this site you can also purchase the silicone hose you will need as well as adapters for insuffalation as well as a very nice ozone sauna tent for about $250. The tanks cost between $75 and $170 depending on the size you purchase. They are refillable and you purchase them in a welding shop. There is controversy about inhaling ozone. I have communicated with people who do it all the time and others who say you must not. I have inhaled ozone quite a bit and recently have been using non medical grade to flow through my sinuses. Again I think there is a political issue here. But do this at your own risk. Inhaling ozone should be done in the correct manner or it may be dangerous. (you have to call him) sells an asthma kit for inhalation. the kit is $35. The ozone is bubbled through olive oil.

Generally, the ozone that escapes during treatments into the room will not be dangerous. Direct inhalation of strong concentrations is what is risky. Please be advised that ozone interacts with many different plastics so equipment, adapters, etc are made out of resistant plastic or silicone. If you have cancer I do not recommend that you try to treat it yourself with ozone or any modality. You need professional help. / / and this is where I would go if I had a very complex case. There are some clinics in the USA that are also doing an excellent job. Here is a nice article about the director of Oasis Hospital. Note the box to click on to find a ozone practitioner on this site you may also find someone specifically for Texas here. shows photos of recirculatory hemoprofusion in progress receive by author at same hospital Peter Jovan set up the above two sites. He in the past he has been willing to teach people about how to do some of the advanced applications of ozone.