Remember how your water softener works. You're using coarse rock salt(NaCl) to remove the heavy minerals. You do have extra salt added to your water. If your water has large amounts of calcium.......Water softening is not the best for Calcium.
My water well, has twice the (NaCl)salt content the city water supply has. It's still acceptable for drinking. My well water also has huge amounts of minerals and calcium...and due to the already high salt content, adding more salt(Softening) does no good!! If you want pure water try distilled or better yet. Reverse Osmosis(RO) water. Dan Mascheck -----Original Message----- From: Rick Etling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:14 AM To: 'Rick Schaefer'; 'The Chevelle Mailing List' Subject: RE: [Chevelle-list] Car Washing My house has a water softener and it still leaves the water spots. Have used Mr. Clean and it does do a better job and yes it does seem to go through the rinse cartridges more then I would think it should. But I guess that is the price we pay for an easier car wash. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Schaefer Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 9:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Chevelle-list] Car Washing I've tried the Mr Clean car washing system and it worked fine. EXCEPT that the water around here is so hard that the rinse cartridge lasts only for 1 1/2 washes. I saw an RV water softener on eBay ( http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=454511109 8&category=50070 ) and if you read the hype, softened water will do everything the Mr Clean system does. So, do any of you rinse your car with household softened water? Does it dry without water spots? Seems like over time the eBay softener would be a bunch cheaper to run. Along those lines, is the Mr Clean rinse cartridge a water softener? Do you think its possible to recharge the cartridge? -- Rick Schaefer 72 TPI El Camino -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.1 - Release Date: 5/2/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.11.1 - Release Date: 5/2/2005
