Mark Thorson > wrote in :

> I'm watching Ask This Old House, and they're replacing
> a water softener. Actually, they're using the old tank
> but replacing the head and the resin beads. As they were
> dumping out the old beads, there was all this black muck
> at the bottom of the tank. They didn't comment on that.
> I'd hate to think of my drinking water passing through
> that crap.


The "black muck" was most likely carbon, which is used in most filters.

I also use it to filter my ethanol, before I turn it into all sorts of
wonderful smooth booze.



>
> When I was a kid, a friend of mine across the street
> had a water softener at his house. I always thought
> the water tasted terrible over there. Borderline
> undrinkable.
>


One reason I now have a AWG (atmospheric water generator).

With 7 sorts of filters on it, the water coming out of the spout is just
that, water... no additives, no chemicals. It's even cleaner than
rainwater.

I can actually hook it up to the town water supply and filter that, but
the filters will only last about 1/3 of the time as they are now. That's
because they have sooooooooooo much more crap to filter out of the town
"drinking water".



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


Mary had a little lamb
her father shot it dead.
Now it goes to school with her
between two chunks of bread.