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I'd like to add something to what Peggie says here -- a lesson that Hans
and I have learned the hard way. If you put antifreeze of ANY type into
your Lectra San you'd better plan on buying another one in the spring.
It apparently fries the electrodes or something. We have a salt feed
tank on our Lectra San, and in the spring when there may be a residual
amount of pink stuff in the fresh water that goes into that tank, we use
raw water and table salt until we're absolutely positive all the
antifreeze is gone.
Peggy Bjarno
>A few words about winterizing plumbing:
>
>Sanitation systems:
>
>The tank: pump out and THOROUGHLY rinse out to remove any sludge. Sludge
>left in a tank can harden into a "concrete" that nothing will dissolve
>that won't also damage the tank and/or the plumbing.
>
>Raw water toilets: Nothing poured into the bowl can make it into the
>intake hose, pump and channel in the rim of the bowl...we used to sell a
>lot of bowls each spring to people found that out the hard way. To
>winterize a raw water toilet, disconnect the intake line from from the
>thru-hull (it would prob'ly be a good idea to close the seacock first
><g>)...stick the intake line into a jug of antifreeze--use ONLY
>non-toxic potable antifreeze ("the pink stuff")...never automotive
>antifreeze...pump the whole gallon through the toilet into the tank. If
> your toilet uses onboard pressurized flush water, winterizing the
>fresh water plumbing takes care of everything but the tank...you can
>flush the recommended amount of antifreeze through the toilet.
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