On Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:51:41 -0500, "skeeter" > wrote:

>
>"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
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>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>
>use potassium instead of salt. a bit more expensive, but leaves the sodium
>taste out.

Moroon.