Re: Killing bacteria

At 04:23 30/04/2001 +0000, you wrote:

>Someone a few miles from us got Legionaires recently and it reminded me of
>the mist or flood thread. There was a worry Legionaires might take up
>residence in mist systems, I'm just wondering though, would it actually be
>capable of living in cutting fluid or an oil mixture? If anyone is worried
>to the point of not using mist because of Legionaires you could consider
>pumping the fluid from a metal can and using an one of those heating
>elements you get for heating a cup of tea / coffee in your car to heat the
>fluid past 80 deg. C or so a few hours before you start working (So it has
>time to cool down again). I suppose you could even put it on a timer so you
>could have it heat the fluid every night. And if tha fails, use toilet duck
>in the tank. :)

Irradiating the coolant with a UV lamp might work - wouldn't have the
disadvantage of heating it up too much.

Regards,
Tony