Re: IML: Tide/water in cooling systems

[James <nyb@xxxxxxx>]

It isn't.  Soft water can still have a bunch of dissolved solids in it, 
distilled water shouldn't have a lot (depending on how well it was 
distilled, what it's contacted afterwards, and how long it's been 
exposed to the atmosphere).  Softened water, depending on the method 
used to soften it, would likely be a poor choice to use in a radiator as 
it can be full of chloride (the salt you put in your water softener has 
to go somewhere), which isn't good from a corrosion perspective.

In terms of what you might want to put through the cooling system of 
your Imperial, if you must put a surfactant of some sort through there, 
from the options presented on the list in a the past couple of days, I'd 
probably side with laundry detergent.  Dishwasher detergent can be 
corrosive.  I think the key thing here is if you put something through 
there, flush it out very, very well and then fill the thing up with 
distilled water/ethylene glycol.

James

DR CHALLENGER wrote:
> sounds like distilled water to me.
>
> > From: "Clay Smith" <imperialman67@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > Soft as in low in calcium and magnesium.
> >
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> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "DR CHALLENGER" 
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> > To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Sunday, December 03, 2006 12:22 AM
> > Subject: Re: IML: Tide
> >
> >
> > > what is soft water?
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