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Originally Posted by RustyShackleford Not a bad idea.

From my favorite appliance repair guy's website, here's a review of a Staber that'll make SamClem feel good-- as well as comparing the costs of operating an old top-loader vs a generic horizontal-axis washing machine:
"The Samurai Appliance Repair Man"

Speaking of Maytag and front-loaders, steer clear of their Neptune models.

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Originally Posted by RustyShackleford I've heard drinking distilled water is a really bad idea. It leaches minerals out of your body.

Not many alternatives on a submarine. Luckily it's not a problem.

There's an old urban legend about losing minerals by drinking pure stream water, but I don't know of any naturally-occurring water that's strictly pure H2O. Evaporators & distillate plants remove most of the minerals from seawater but enough carries over to avoid damage to human health. Even when the evaporator was working properly and operated correctly, the distillate still had to be run through a demineralizer to make it pure enough for nuclear reactor use. Drinking that pure water could cause some long-term problems, but it's too expensive for all but the richest and most particular consumers.