More fun with well water

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Customer dropped this radiator off Thrursday. We tore into it today. Customer says the truck was running hot.

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Originally Posted By: ps49556n
lol what is that from??
Our local water supply is loaded with Calcium. It's good for your bones but not good for a cooling system. Deionized or Distilled water only for radiators here but some people either don't know or are too cheap to buy that at the store.

This is what they get.
 
I don't. Think well water caused that truckers use tap water all the time infact I met one in visalia who had gone through 20 gallon due to a leak
 
Originally Posted By: Chris142
Deionized or Distilled water only for radiators here but some people either don't know or are too cheap to buy that at the store.

This is what they get.


You got to be kidding me! Distilled H20 costs what, under a buck a gallon, at Wal-Mart?

Heck, I'm cheap, and I still spring for distilled water for coolant mixing.
 
Originally Posted By: stockrex
I don't. Think well water caused that truckers use tap water all the time infact I met one in visalia who had gone through 20 gallon due to a leak
Visalia is a different aquafer than ours. In Some places well water may be fine but not here.
 
Somebody screwed up.....

I have a distilling machine that I make big batches of water with.
I's a hog on power consumption though.
The water around here is pretty good to use as is. But I want 0 impurities.
 
Originally Posted By: labman
If you take you own bottles, you can get purified water at Walmart for I think $.39
Spend the extra .30 cents a gallon and get distilled.

Their "purified" is RO and there will still be garbage in it since it is still the water from that area.

Distilled in the bottle is just that. Well (pardon the pun
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)worth the .73 cents a gallon. Here lime is a big problem, I use ONLY distilled and straight coolant with never any problems for many decades...

Take care, bill
 
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Originally Posted By: Chris142
Customer dropped this radiator off Thrursday. We tore into it today. Customer says the truck was running hot.

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I wonder why it was running hot....
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Thanks for the pics
 
I'd dip it in some CLR or Lime Away.
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Distilled at Wally's around here is $0.83 a gallon. Cheap insurance.

Thanks for the pic.
 
Originally Posted By: stockrex
I don't. Think well water caused that truckers use tap water all the time infact I met one in visalia who had gone through 20 gallon due to a leak


Wow, you met a trucker who used 20 gallons of tap water due to a leak. So now, therefore, all truckers use Tap water.

The only truckers using Tap Water are the ones who don't know better.
 
I'm about 10 miles from a poland spring aquifier. (They pump it out of the ground so it's note a true spring-- some from an old potato field with trace fertilizers etc.) My well water does allright in the rad.
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I guess it all depends on the local water. I've been using tap water (garden hose) for over 20 years with no issues.
 
Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
I see the image is to scale....


I get it. I had to think about it for a minute though...
 
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