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Hi Jack,
We fulltime also and use a water softner by Flow Pure. When we first
got it 3 years ago, after using it for about 2 weeks, I noticed that
when I flushed, white chunks started coming out of the toilet head.
Turns out to be hard water chunks. Problem solved for us.
When we first check in somewhere, I test the water with test strips
and if hard enough, I put on the water softner.
Cost was $290, but recharging it with cheap salt (33 cents) every 800
gallons or so (depending on how hard the water is), is a cheap
solution.
Bob Lawrence
84 PT36
South Padre Island, Tx (where we are using the softner)

> Howdy.
>
> I just took apart the solenoid for our coach's Microphor 12 V
Commode to
> see why it wouldn't shut off the water. Water was running into the
> commode's bowl constantly. The Microphor tech said,"Look for sand
in the
> valve part of the solenoid." I did that and did NOT find any SAND
but
> pieces of scale instead. I am too old and lazy to keep tearing that
> solenoid apart every two weeks. There must be an answer to solve
this
> hard water scale problem. Ideas, suggestions would be appreciated.
> A source of C4 as a permanent solution?
>
> TIA,
> Jack
> Regards,
> Jack and Liz Pearce
> Fulltiming in a 1993 Wanderlodge WB40
> D'Hanis, TX in the Winter
> Buena Vista, CO in the Summer
>

----- Original Message -----

From: "bobandarlene@earthlink.net"

To: "WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com"

Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:26 PM

Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Getting Hard Water Scale in Plumbing, What To Do?

Hi Jack,
We fulltime also and use a water softner by Flow Pure. When we first
got it 3 years ago, after using it for about 2 weeks, I noticed that
when I flushed, white chunks started coming out of the toilet head.
Turns out to be hard water chunks. Problem solved for us.
When we first check in somewhere, I test the water with test strips
and if hard enough, I put on the water softner.
Cost was $290, but recharging it with cheap salt (33 cents) every 800
gallons or so (depending on how hard the water is), is a cheap
solution.
Bob Lawrence
84 PT36
South Padre Island, Tx (where we are using the softner)

> Howdy.
>
> I just took apart the solenoid for our coach's Microphor 12 V
Commode to
> see why it wouldn't shut off the water. Water was running into the
> commode's bowl constantly. The Microphor tech said,"Look for sand
in the
> valve part of the solenoid." I did that and did NOT find any SAND
but
> pieces of scale instead. I am too old and lazy to keep tearing that
> solenoid apart every two weeks. There must be an answer to solve
this
> hard water scale problem. Ideas, suggestions would be appreciated.
> A source of C4 as a permanent solution?
>
> TIA,
> Jack
> Regards,
> Jack and Liz Pearce
> Fulltiming in a 1993 Wanderlodge WB40
> D'Hanis, TX in the Winter
> Buena Vista, CO in the Summer
>

Jack: You might try a water softener. Talk to Chet Parks about that.
He is an expert and also makes softeners.

R.E. (Ron) Marabito, Dallas, TX 92WB40

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "Jack and Liz Pearce"
wrote:
>
> Howdy.
>
> I just took apart the solenoid for our coach's Microphor 12 V Commode to
> see why it wouldn't shut off the water. Water was running into the
> commode's bowl constantly. The Microphor tech said,"Look for sand in the
> valve part of the solenoid." I did that and did NOT find any SAND but
> pieces of scale instead. I am too old and lazy to keep tearing that
> solenoid apart every two weeks. There must be an answer to solve this
> hard water scale problem. Ideas, suggestions would be appreciated.
> A source of C4 as a permanent solution?
>
> TIA,
> Jack
> Regards,
> Jack and Liz Pearce
> Fulltiming in a 1993 Wanderlodge WB40
> D'Hanis, TX in the Winter
> Buena Vista, CO in the Summer
>

Hey Bill,
Try Flowpur.com. That should do it. Flowpur has more gold in it that
the Camping World model.
Bob Lawrence
84 PT36
Padre Island, Tx

> Where did you get the water softener?
> Bill Jowers
> 83PT36
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Bob Lawrence
> To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 4:26 PM
> Subject: [WanderlodgeForum] Re: Getting Hard Water Scale in
Plumbing, What To Do?
>
>
> Hi Jack,
> We fulltime also and use a water softner by Flow Pure. When we
first
> got it 3 years ago, after using it for about 2 weeks, I noticed
that
> when I flushed, white chunks started coming out of the toilet
head.
> Turns out to be hard water chunks. Problem solved for us.
> When we first check in somewhere, I test the water with test
strips
> and if hard enough, I put on the water softner.
> Cost was $290, but recharging it with cheap salt (33 cents) every
800
> gallons or so (depending on how hard the water is), is a cheap
> solution.
> Bob Lawrence
> 84 PT36
> South Padre Island, Tx (where we are using the softner)
>
> > Howdy.
> >
> > I just took apart the solenoid for our coach's Microphor 12 V
> Commode to
> > see why it wouldn't shut off the water. Water was running into
the
> > commode's bowl constantly. The Microphor tech said,"Look for
sand
> in the
> > valve part of the solenoid." I did that and did NOT find any
SAND
> but
> > pieces of scale instead. I am too old and lazy to keep tearing
that
> > solenoid apart every two weeks. There must be an answer to
solve
> this
> > hard water scale problem. Ideas, suggestions would be
appreciated.
> > A source of C4 as a permanent solution?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Jack
> > Regards,
> > Jack and Liz Pearce
> > Fulltiming in a 1993 Wanderlodge WB40
> > D'Hanis, TX in the Winter
> > Buena Vista, CO in the Summer
> >
>