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Are you using the correct water ?

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Jedi Knight
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I was rummaging thru some boxes in the garge a came across an old Hanes manual. I flipped thru it and this struck me as funny. quote: <span style="font-style: italic">THe best water to use in the cooling system is rain water to prevent scale bulid up, so use this when possible</span>.
I think I found nich market for somebody selling it at bottled water prices you could make millions!!! :crazyeyes:

Must have been written when acid rain was a band name.
 
Midget - sprite Haynes manual 1959 thru 1980 published 1981.

Hmm let me check page 8 for use of english lets see..

grub screw / setscrew
Methylated sprit / denatured alcohol
saloon / sedan
spanner / wrench
torch / flashlight
silencer / muffler

Nope! It's rain water! maybe that is why some sprites are running hot.
:thumbsup:
 
In Davis the tap water is from wells and has a hardness >250PPm. You can almost stand a spoon in it. That much calcium and magnesium scale in my cooling system I don't need. Distilled ONLY for me. YMMV

Glen
 
250 ppm hardness is pretty darn hard at that rate my guess that the P alkalinity is up there as well. That's tuff on aluminum with out an anti freeze-scale inhibitor.
 
Glen_B said:
Distilled ONLY for me. YMMV

Glen
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Darned Hippies. So do you use Evian or Perrier?
 
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