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Re: [Shop-talk] Water softeners - wrong link the first time!

To: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Shop-talk] Water softeners - wrong link the first time!
From: Matt Trebelhorn <matt.lists@trebelhorn.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 23:09:12 -0500
Central Kentucky is mostly limestone.  Lots of caves, lots of very  
hard water.
I'll go out on a limb and say that most of the mineral content of our  
water is calcium carbonate.

Matt, in Lexington

On 11 Feb, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Randall wrote:

>> Here is one such system:
>> http://www.waterfilter-usa.com/saltfree-water-softeners-c-75.html
>
> Wild.  I had never even heard of such a thing.
>
> But I note that it's only effective against calcium carbonate;  
> which while
> likely the most common source of hardness is by no means the only  
> one.  So
> how effective it is depends on just what is in your water.  If it's
> magnesium, iron, sulfur, etc, this isn't the softener for you.
>
> Not quite sure what's in my water, but it doesn't seem to be calcium
> carbonate.
>
> Randall
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