I'm working on a water softener, a Kenmore ultra soft 200. It's got lots of rusty mess in and around. Need it for a place we have up on the hill here in the high desert, bout a mile from here. {Clear water iron from the well.}
Cleaned the venturi and all valves I found, going to clean up the inside of the tank and the resin chamber as much as I can. Not going to buy new resin beads at this time, going to try cleaning them up, bought cleaner, well I'm going to look them over today, hope I can clean those up.
Have you ever refurbished one? If so any word would be welcome.
Richard
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I work for a company that builds high purity water systems that include softener's.
How old is the resin
Has it ever dried out
is it uniform in shape and color
Does it turn to mush if you smash it between your fingers
Iron is very difficult to remove with just a softener.
Iron systems include an air injection system followed by a sediment tank filled with plastic balls that then attract the iron once the oxygen forces the iron to drop out. those balls can be cleaned with stuff like iron out every so often. You can also use a bank of sediment filters behind the air injection point with 1 micron filters in them that you could change out every month.
If your going to use just a softener you will be replacing resin yearly depending on the iron count. You will know when it is iron fowled it will be very dark red in color and it will be a lot of different sizes and will mush between your fingers.
How old is the resin
Has it ever dried out
is it uniform in shape and color
Does it turn to mush if you smash it between your fingers
Iron is very difficult to remove with just a softener.
Iron systems include an air injection system followed by a sediment tank filled with plastic balls that then attract the iron once the oxygen forces the iron to drop out. those balls can be cleaned with stuff like iron out every so often. You can also use a bank of sediment filters behind the air injection point with 1 micron filters in them that you could change out every month.
If your going to use just a softener you will be replacing resin yearly depending on the iron count. You will know when it is iron fowled it will be very dark red in color and it will be a lot of different sizes and will mush between your fingers.
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Greetings, Thanks for coming by. RE: the resin it is transparent red in color, It has never dried out, it is uniform size and shape and is not mushy. It, the resin is 4yr old, did have an iron filter in front of it before it that used potassium manganate, that is redish in color.
The iron is: Clear Water Iron.
Clear water iron can't be filtered out, from what I understand.
I don't plan to install an oxidizing tank
Richard
The iron is: Clear Water Iron.
Clear water iron can't be filtered out, from what I understand.
I don't plan to install an oxidizing tank
Richard