robatthelake
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Whatever You end up doing Don't Ever use the Vacuum Exhaust or an Oily Compressor to Blow Out the Lines! As far as pressure goes a Bicycle Pump or one of those Inflator Pumps for Air beds, Water toys etc. Has enough pressure to displace the water !
You certainly wouldn't want to drink the antifreeze but it won't take much to fill the low points!
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magicbus
LBI, NJ or Nantucket, MA
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RCMAN46 wrote:Using a vacumm cleaner will put a lot of nasty junk in your water system. Think about it. What was the last thing you used the vacumm for?  I don't think the poster meant a vacuum cleaner!
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Harvard
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If you are having trouble in the spring with the lingering presence of antifreeze then it is probably your technique. DO NOT get any antifreeze in your hot water tank as it will cause the lingering experience you are having. In the spring, leave the hot water tank in BYPASS until after you have cleared all HOT and COLD water pipes/faucets of antifreeze using fresh water.
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heatman
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I made up a fitting using a air line quick connect and a brass hose adapter.
I set my oil-less compressor at about 45 PSI and start at the farthest faucet. Once the water is blown out, I out a couple gallons of RV antifreeze in the fresh tank and turn on the pump. Once the antifreeze starts coming out, I blow out the lines again, saving the antifreeze.
I 'lose' about 2 quarts a year into the assorted drains and P-traps. I usually buy my antifreeze in the late winter or early spring when it goes on sale.
It's worked for me for 5 plus years.
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DDinCincy
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It's interesting how most of the anti-freeze crowd refers to "the right way" or blowing out as "half a-sed". It looks to me as there are two viable ways to accomplish winterizing and when done properly both are equally effective at protecting the system. Pick one, it is not a choice between right and wrong.
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magicbus
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DDinCincy wrote:It's interesting how most of the anti-freeze crowd refers to "the right way" or blowing out as "half a-sed". It looks to me as there are two viable ways to accomplish winterizing and when done properly both are equally effective at protecting the system. Pick one, it is not a choice between right and wrong. Quite correct! It might be interesting to note that those who do not use anti-freeze would probably start using it if they ever had a problem - we just don't! But as you point out - pick one and get 'er done!
Dave
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TMBLSN
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magicbus wrote:
You forgot to answer the second part of the question.  .
Did you read the health information? How many times throughout our short lifetimes have wee seen approvals containing wording like ths following quotes and then 15 years later the dire after-effects:
is not acutely toxic (single dose, high exposure)...
Because of its low chronic oral toxicity...
and my favorite:
PG is not approved for use in cat food....
But hey, it's a free country - whatever floats your boat! I winterize easily without it.
Dave
You can live in fear, or you can just live.
I'm sure that if I observed you for one day that I could find at least a half dozen things that are more dangerous than RV anti-freeze.
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bsinmich
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On my previous Fleetwoods I simply emptied the water tanks, drained at the low point valves at the couple places provided and put the pink stuff in the drain traps. I never had a problem with either from 1989 to 2004.
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magicbus
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TMBLSN wrote:
You can live in fear, or you can just live.
I'm sure that if I observed you for one day that I could find at least a half dozen things that are more dangerous than RV anti-freeze.
Life doesn't come with a safety fence - enjoy it anyway. You would need a calculator to keep track of the ways I live dangerously but you know what? I choose them - just as you do.
Go enjoy life - it belongs to you.
Dave
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bojumill
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I used that pink******once ,it took me 2 days of flushing the water tank & lines to get the taste out.
what we do ,i drain the water heater, turn on the water pump , open faucets 1 at a time till all that comes out is air.
put the rv pink stuff in the P traps
we have been doing it this way for years
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