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jenkinswt:
At our old place we would leave 5 gallons of water on the wood stove at night and in the morning it would have a layer of limestone at the top of the water. If you was real careful you could almost skim it off but usually it would flake and settle and you'd have little chunks floating around.
We use a RO system now and it works pretty good. I'm sure it removes good minerals from the water also but were in farmland area and I wouldn't want to drink unfiltered water. Tanner that treatment setup sounds pretty interesting.
Frank S:
The pressure tank on our well has about 2 dozen old radio speakers stuck to the side of it. I'm sure those were probably placed there in hopes of cutting down on electrolysis and to possibly try to draw any magnetic sulfates out of suspension.
under the kitchen sink there was 1 of those little 3 gallon RO units with the 4 filters mounted on top it was rusted out and when I cut open the tank and removed the bladder it had 10 LBS of gunk in it . I've seen new ones demonstrated they work fine as long as the incoming water is at least city quality. But well water is what it is and depending on the area it may smell like skunk water or worse, Or is might be hard as nails full of sand, iron, pesticides if the well is not real deep, and many pathogens. Gone are the days when you could drill or have a well drilled and trust that it was going to be reasonably safe right out of the ground.
tanner0441:
Hi
I have a couple of Magnatec Filters from Central Heating systems, they consist of a plastic container with a column of neo magnets up the middle with a thin plastic sleeve over the magnets, the water goes in on one port past the magnets and out the other. There are taps on the input and output ports so the filter can be drained and cleaned without draining the system down. The ports are 22mm. One or two of those in your system would most likely sort any magnetic contaminants out.
Brian
Mary B:
Frank I would get a water quality test done so you know exactly what you are dealing with. Then contact these guys with the results and see what kind of a system they can design. http://www.buckeyehydro.com/ They are well known in the brewing industry where water is THE major ingredient that can affect beers final flavor. Easy to work with too! I bought my 100(closer to 50 with my cold water, yes temp affects the filtering) gallon per day RO system from them... I use it for brewing water and for drinking/cooking water...
Frank S:
Thanks for the link Mary B; While I was living in Kuwait I had the opportunity to make acquaintances with some nomadic Bedouin people who had established farms near some brackish natural pools of water The pools were the result of sea water seeping for miles across the desert from the gulf They had created a bio filter system similar to one that I started building a few years ago only theirs was much larger than the one I am building. Mine is based around a 55 gallon poly drum where as theirs was acres in size. I also talked frequently with Bruce S he turned me onto the guys from Blue Flame and they had a unique way for filtering their water for distilling. I have a real good friend in CT who's wife recently retired from some University research lab or some such place. They are planning on making a visit soon and she said she will bring her testing equipment that she used for testing medical water.
For right now using the city water in my storage tanks I'm not worried about the quality all that much. even though I do filter it through a 3 stage system before it goes to the house.
This is my current work in progress set up
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