HELP.. Where to buy distilled water can't find it.

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dVeLoPe

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I have tried my local supermarkets and pharmacys but they all were just bottled water non-distilled... Can someone post where you get yours at I have a water cooling setup coming in tommorow and need to fill her up ASAP!..
 
Every grocery store I have even been to has Distilled Water, hell most 7-11's or Pep Boys has it...... You must not be looking hard enough.
 
I've never been to a grocery store that doesn't have it. It won't be in a bottled water section, it'll be with the one gallon jugs of water.
 
i know longs drugs on the west coast has it...i worked there for 5 years!
 
Any auto place... ie. AutoZone, R&S, Strauss, etc. They have distilled water for car batteries... come in 1 gal. jugs which should cost $0.99, but they usually overcharge to $1.99/gal.

Good lucK :D
 
I bought a 5 gallon jug of distilled water with a handy dispenser at food lion. it was like $2.75 or something...
the labeling was red instead of blue.
 
You must be looking for something different. I've never seen a grocery store or convenience store without distilled water.
 
try one of these

A&P (The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company)
A&P
Farmer Jack
Food Emporium (New York City region)
Waldbaum's (parts of New York City, and Long Island, New York)
Super Fresh
Sav-A-Center
Ahold (Dutch company's US subsidiaries)
Giant Food (Pennsylvania)
Giant Food (Maryland)
Peapod
Stop & Shop
Tops
see also: Giant-Stop & Shop
Albertsons LLC
Costco
County Market
Delhaize Group (Belgian company's US subsidiaries)
Bloom
Hannaford
Harvey's
Shop 'n' Save (Singapore, not the Shop 'n Save owned by SuperValu)
Food Lion
Kash n' Karry
Harris Teeter
Henhouse
Kmart
Kroger
Baker's
Dillon's
Food 4 Less
FoodsCo
Fred Meyer
Fry's Food
Jay C
King Soopers
Ralphs
Smiths
QFC
Piggly Wiggly
Safeway
Carrs
Dominick's
Genuardi's
Pavilions
Randalls
Tom Thumb
Vons
SuperValu
Acme
Albertsons
bigg's
Bristol Farms
Cub Foods
Farm Fresh
Hornbacher's
Jewel/Jewel-Osco
Lazy Acres
Lucky Stores (used to be Max Foods) (3 locations: Alhambra, El Centro, and Montebello, California)
Save-A-Lot
Scott's Food & Pharmacy
Shaw's
Shop 'n Save
Shoppers Food & Pharmacy
Star Market
Sunflower Market
Super Saver Foods
Target Stores
Wal-Mart
WinCo Foods
Whole Foods

[edit] Regional and local chains
Acme Fresh Market operating in the Akron, Ohio area
Andronico's (California)
Associated Supermarkets (New York City area)
Balducci's (Eastern Seaboard)
Bashas' (Arizona)
Big Y Foods (New England)
Buehler's Buy-Low (Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky)
Brookshire's (Texas & Louisiana) Also runs Super1 Foods in East Texas and Shreveport, LA.
Brookshire Brothers (Texas) A brother of the Brookshires mentioned above.
Bruno's Supermarkets (Southeast)
C-Town (northeastern United States)
Cannata's Family Market (southern Louisiana)
Copps Food Center
County Market
D'Agostino's (New York)
D&W Food Centers (Michigan)
DeMoulas' Market Basket (New England - Massachusetts/New Hampshire)
Dierbergs (Greater St. Louis, Missouri)
Fareway (Iowa)
FasChec (Charleston, West Virginia area)
Felpausch (Michigan)
Fiesta Mart (Houston, Dallas, Austin & Waco, Texas) Hispanic and International foods.
Food Basket
Food City (Kentucky, Virginia, Tennessee)
FoodFair (Southeast Ohio, Eastern Kentucky, and Western West Virginia)
Food Giant
FoodLand (Hawaii)
FoodLand Supermarkets(Western Pennsylvania)
Foodtown (Northeast, mainly New Jersey) (a similarly named store, "Food Town", operates in the Houston, Texas area)
Gerland's Food Fair (Houston)
Giant Eagle (eastern United States)
Glen's (Northern Michigan)
Grand Union (AKA GU Family Markets)
Gristedes (dozens of stores, all within the borough of Manhattan, New York City)
Grocer's Pride (Houston, Mississippi)
Haggen Top Food & Drug (Washington, Oregon)
H-E-B (Texas, Mexico) Also operates H-E-B Plus and Central Market.
Harding's Friendly Markets (Southwest Michigan)
Heinen's Fine Foods (Greater Cleveland)
Hugo's (North Dakota, Minnesota)
Hy-Vee Food Stores (Hundreds of stores in 7 states)
Ingles (south)
Jons (Los Angeles inner-city)
Karns Foods (Central Pennsylvania)
Key Food (New York City area)
King Kullen (Long Island, and Staten Island, New York)
Kowalski's (Minnesota)
Lowes Foods (North Carolina)
Lund's (Minnesota)
Byerly's
Magruder's (Washington, DC region)
Market Basket (SE Texas and SW Louisiana)
Mars (Greater Baltimore area)
Marsh (Indiana and Ohio, includes O'Malia's and Lo-Bill chains)
Martin's Super Markets (Indiana)
Martin's Super Food Stores (New York)
Mayfair
Meijer (midwest)
Minyard's (Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, operates also under the names "Carnival", an ethnic-oriented line, and "Sack and Save", a discount line)
Nash Finch Company (Upper midwest)
Nugget Markets (Northern California)
Omni Foods (Massachusetts and New Hampshire)
Pathmark (northeastern United States)
Penn Traffic (Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire)
P&C Foods
Bi-Lo Foods
Riverside Markets
Quality Markets
Publix (southeastern United States)
Quality Markets (New York and Pennsylvania)
Raley's (western U.S., own Nob Hill and Bel Air)
Robèrt's Fresh Market (New Orleans, Louisiana Metro area)
Roundy's
Copps Food Center (Wisconsin)
Pick 'n Save (Wisconsin, Illinois)
Rainbow Foods (Minnesota)
Rouse's Supermarket (Louisiana)
Rice Supermarkets Also Rice Epicurean Markets (Houston)
Preston-Safeway|Safeway (aka Preston-Safeway, unrelated to Safeway Inc.; Central Indiana)
Save-Mart (California)
Schnucks (Missouri, Illinois, Indiana)
Scolari's Food and Drug (California, Nevada)
Sedano's [Miami, Florida]
Sears Grand (nationwide)
Sendik's Food Market (Wisconsin)
Sentry Foods (Wisconsin)
ShopRite (northeastern United States)
Simon Delivers (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota/Wisconsin online grocery)
Spartan Stores (Michigan)
Stater Brothers (California)
Stewart's Shops (New York and Vermont)
Stew Leonard's (New York City suburbs)
Strack and Van Til (Northwestern Indiana)
Straub's (St. Louis, Missouri)
Sullivan's Foods (Northern & Central Illinois)
Sunshine Foods (Upper Mid-west)
Turco's (New York)
Ukrop's (central Virginia)
United (West Texas)
Victory Super Markets (soon to be defunct, Massachusetts & New Hampshire)
Wade's (Virginia) http://www.wades-foods.com
Wegmans (Northeast)
Weis Markets - Mid-Atlantic (Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, West Virginia)
Westborn Market (Southeast Michigan)
Wilson Farms (Upstate New York)
Winn-Dixie (Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Lousiana)
Woodman's Food Market (Wisconsin, Northern Illinois)

[edit] Retailers' cooperatives
Affiliated Food Stores
Affiliated Foods Midwest
Associated Food Stores
Associated Grocers
Associated Grocers of Florida
Associated Grocers of the South
Associated Wholesale Grocers
Price Chopper / Price Mart
Country Mart
Cash Saver
Apple Market
SunFresh
ThriftWay
Associated Wholesalers
Central Grocers Cooperative
IGA
ShopRite/Wakefern Food Corporation
Shurfine Markets
Unified Western Grocers
Western Family Foods (supermarket wholesaler)
Royal Blue (supermarket) (now defunct; founded in the 1930s)

[edit] Deep Discount and Limited Assortment chains
Aldi (the US operations of a German group)
PriceRite (Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Pennsylvania--Owned by Wakefern)
Food 4 Less
Grocery Outlet (West)
Marc's
WinCo Foods (West)
Price Chopper (northeastern United States, mainly New York state)
ShopRite/Wakefern Food Corporation
Supervalu (Midwest, mixed franchiser and directly-owned stores, uses banners: Cub Foods, Save-A-Lot and more)

[edit] Defunct chains
ABCO (Arizona) Also known as Alpha Beta
AppleTree Markets (Houston, Dallas & Austin, Texas) The former Safeway, Inc. stores in Texas. The former Safeway employees bought out the assets of Safeway and formed AppleTree. There was one AppleTree store still left in Bryan, Tex., as of 2003.
Big Bear (Ohio, New York, and West Virginia)
Clemens Family Markets (PA) Acquired in 2006 by Ahold and folded into the Giant-Carlisle chain
Eagle Food Centers (headquarted in Milan, Illinois. Two Eagle Country Market stores were purchased by Downtown Eagle Corporation, which continue to run the stores.)
Food Fair closed in the 90's. Pantry pride was part of food fair.
Great Scott's (Michigan)
Henke - Pillot Foods (Houston, Texas) Became Kroger in 1960's.
Hills Supermarkets (Headquarters was in Brentwood, NY) Closed in late 1970's - Early 1980's
Jitney-Jungle Well-loved deep-south chain which went bankrupt after swallowing the Delchamps chain--many locations were sold to Winn-Dixie
Kmart Foods (national)
Kohl's Supermarket (Wisconsin)
Mini Max (Houston & Austin, Texas)
National Supermarkets (St. Louis, Missouri) Sold out to Schnucks Markets by Loblaws of Canada in 1995.
Pantry Pride last store was built in 1991 before the chain closed.
Penn-Fruit (Philadelphia metro-area)
Schwegmanns Bros Super Food Stores (New Orleans metro-area)
Super Duper (Ohio, nearly defunct; many former stores are now Jubilee)
Weingarten's (Houston, Texas)
Whitefront - California
 
If you can't find it in any store on that list ^^^ then must be looking for wrong thing lol. That is a monster of a list
 
jordan172005 said:
If you can't find it in any store on that list ^^^ then must be looking for wrong thing lol. That is a monster of a list
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haha, apparently someone was bored at work today.
 
lol @ that major list.. Thanks for the replys I found it a cheap grocery store. Red TOP called "Crystal Springs Distilled Water" I bought 3 gallons of it. Now I am unsure as to how to store it should I leave it un-cooled or should I stick it in my fridge?
 
dVeLoPe said:
lol @ that major list.. Thanks for the replys I found it a cheap grocery store. Red TOP called "Crystal Springs Distilled Water" I bought 3 gallons of it. Now I am unsure as to how to store it should I leave it un-cooled or should I stick it in my fridge?
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It's water, and it's sealed. It's not going to spoil or go rotten. Put it wherever you have room, lol.
 
I wanted to know if I should cool it in the fridge (when I bought it wasnt in cold) or leave it un-cooled.. Will it make any difference in my temp?
 
dVeLoPe said:
I wanted to know if I should cool it in the fridge (when I bought it wasnt in cold) or leave it un-cooled.. Will it make any difference in my temp?
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yeah for maybe the first 2 seconds it's in the loop?

Think about it, no matter if you refrigerate your water or not, the processor is gonig to heat it up fast, and the rad will dump that heat out.

the temp in your loop is going to be determined by the amount of heat your rad can dump out of the water, not the temperature of the water when you first filled up your system.
 
cooling the water wont do shit. It will eventually reach the same temp even if it wasnt cooled.
 
MonsterEnergy said:
why distilled and not de-ionized?
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Both are virtually the same thing. Distilled water has had slightly more things taken out of it, whereas deionized water has just had it's ionic molecules removed.
 
There is very little practical difference between distilled and deionized water, and as demonstrated above, distilled water is widely (and inexpensively) available.
 
malicious said:
chemistry

de-ionized + copper = copper ions in water .. (i think)
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distilled + copper = copper ions in water, lol same thing.


deionized and distilled just refer to what has been removed from the water BEFORE it was put into the bottle.
 
dVeLoPe said:
I wanted to know if I should cool it in the fridge (when I bought it wasnt in cold) or leave it un-cooled.. Will it make any difference in my temp?
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maybe you should stick to air cooling...
 
I believe it's a good practice to store your distilled water somewhere dark, or away from direct sunlight at least. If it's been opened and any air borne bugs have got in they will breed.
 
Arcygenical said:
Lol, that's mean. we all started somewhere.

I did laugh though :p.
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true, but i'm a mean guy.

i lurked around various water cooling forums for over a year before i put water in my computer. every time i see questions like his, i just want to strangle some people and have them do their homework.
 
lol I believe everyone feels that way.

Mainly because when he messes up and spills water eveywhere and fries his dual 8800s and new intel dual core, we'd all be very sad to see such gear wasted.
 
malicious said:
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AppleTree Markets (Houston, Dallas & Austin, Texas) The former Safeway, Inc. stores in Texas. The former Safeway employees bought out the assets of Safeway and formed AppleTree. There was one AppleTree store still left in Bryan, Tex., as of 2003.
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:p
Your post was thorough, although it would have been nice if you could have included Google Maps/Mapquest links for each of the stores mentioned, and sorted them by proximity to the OP. Geez you didn't even post any phone numbers so that he could call and see if they had distilled water in stock! Some people!













































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