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From: (no name) (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 30 2006 - 10:48:34 EST
In a message dated 10/30/2006 9:55:10 AM Eastern Standard Time,
writes:
> Can anyone remember approximately what month, or even year there was a big
>
> session on cleaning built up salt residue in the water systems on engines.
>
> This info would certainly assist me in an archive search.
> I do vaguely remember vinegar but could be wrong.
Carl:
I don't know about the session on the archives, but vinegar will clean out
the calcium deposits in the seawater cooling side of the engine. I know this
from experience. You can buy gallon bottles of vinegar from Sam's at a very
inexpensive price. I dumped the vinegar into a 5 gallon bucket and then
connected a sea water intake line* into the bucket. Start the engine and let
it suck
up the vinegar. When the bucket is almost empty, turn off the engine (or if
your engine requires more than 5 gallons, pour additional into the bucket as
it
is being drawn out). I let the vinegar stay overnight. The next morning
when I started the engines, you could see the stream of white calcium deposits
coming out with the exhaust water.
* To facilitate this process, I had a metal working shop install a valve with
a quick connection onto the top of one of the sea water strainers. The valve
stays closed (and secured) until needed for the vinegar application. I
installed a quick connector onto a length of hose long enough to fit to a
bucket.
Just install the quick connector onto the sea strainer; turn off the sea water
strainer valve so it doesn't draw in water, and open the valve to the bucket
of vinegar. When completed, I just move the sea strainer lid wth quick-
connect to the next sea strainer and continue the process.
Reid Gantt
Atlantic 30
"Vouivre"
docked at Sneads Ferry, NC
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