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Magnetic water softening method

vandenberg - 11-10-2007 at 01:22 PM

Any of you Nomads have any experience with the magnetic way of softening water. I have a conventional one, uses salt, which never seems to work properly. Lots of problem with salt bridge building up. Plus difficulty getting he salt here. Just talked to someone who replaced his softener with a big magnet, the kind that lifts outboards out of the water ( he claims, news to me ) and swears by it.

DENNIS - 11-10-2007 at 01:28 PM

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Plus difficulty getting he salt here.

Another arguement for a desal plant?

gnukid - 11-10-2007 at 02:31 PM

Many government and university studies exist showing the results aren't there to support magnetic water softeners and if scientific studies exist offering support please send references links here.

http://www.rexgrigg.com/debunked.htm

http://www.chemistryland.com/CHM107Lab/Lab5/Filters/Lab5Exp2...



[Edited on 11-11-2007 by gnukid]

losfrailes - 11-11-2007 at 04:19 PM

I was in the water treatment business for lots of years and there is NO magnetic thing that works.

Pure Scan.

Get a rubber mallet and when the softener bridges pound the outside of the salt storage tank. The bridge will break.

Love that silky feeling!

bajagrouper - 11-13-2007 at 05:59 PM

Originally posted by vandenberg
Plus difficulty getting he salt here.

drive over to Guererro Negro, salt all over the place........

mtgoat666 - 11-13-2007 at 07:50 PM

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Originally posted by vandenberg
Any of you Nomads have any experience with the magnetic way of softening water. I have a conventional one, uses salt, which never seems to work properly. Lots of problem with salt bridge building up. Plus difficulty getting he salt here. Just talked to someone who replaced his softener with a big magnet, the kind that lifts outboards out of the water ( he claims, news to me ) and swears by it.


your acquaintance got scammed. you better run away quickly before you get suckered too.

vandenberg - 11-13-2007 at 08:14 PM

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your acquaintance got scammed. you better run away quickly before you get suckered too.


Not quite.
He heard about it and gave it the good old college try. Bought a very big magnet at Harbor Freight and ducttaped it to his water line. So, not much money involved.
My common sense told me that it couldn't work, to go with what I remembered from my science and chemistry classes 50 years ago.:(:(:biggrin::biggrin: