[Public-List] Public-List Digest, Vol 1048, Issue 1

[The Rochets]

	Thank you, George. I will definitely install a water filter. It  
sounds like an easy fix compared with having to dismantle the wood  
work around the water tank and replacing the aluminum top or coating  
it with epoxy. That's time I would rather spend sailing.
	And  I don't mind carrying spare filters. If they clog up with  
aluminum oxide, it means they are doing their job.

	Thanks again for your comments and advice.

Bernard


George Dinwiddie wrote:

> Bernard,
>
> The water filters really do work well.  If you don't replace the
> aluminum top or coat the inside surface with epoxy, they'll clog up  
> from
> the aluminum oxide.  Just carry a spare filter element.  I  
> typically use
> 2 or 3 a year.
>
>   - George
>
> The Rochets wrote:
>> Thank you very much, George and Mike. This is exactly the type of
>> feedback I was looking for.
>>
>> I had heard about those tanks being poor choices for holding tanks
>> because of their lack of vents; I should have thought that they would
>> be great for growing bacteria as water tanks, too.
>>
>> Bernard #608
>>
>> George Dinwiddie wrote:
>>
>>> Get a charcoal filter (what they call a "whole house water filter",
>>> like
>>> http://www.mainstsupply.com/images/400/M52978c.jpg) and the water  
>>> will
>>> taste fine.  The aluminum oxide won't hurt you, but it makes lousy
>>> coffee without the filter.  Add a little chlorox to the tank from  
>>> time
>>> to time to kill anything growing in it.  The charcoal will take out
>>> the
>>> chlorine, also.
>>>
>>> I've heard that the flexible bags chafe through in fairly short  
>>> order.
>>>
>>>   - George