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That's why I use air to blow out my pipes. No need to worry how cold it gets.
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Pink Stuff
- Thread starter CurrentSea
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Autozone has it also.
Back on a serious note
You should not use the pink stuff for your fresh water system, blowing out the lines is better and cheaper. It is a very simple process to do this. What I do is hook a compressor up to the dockside water inlet. I open all the faucets (hot and cold) and blow the water out. (you need to drain the hot water heater before you do this. You also want to run your water pump for a second or two while blowing out your lines. You want to clear any water out of that pump.
Prior to the above, you want to run your fresh water tanks down till your faucets are spitting air and water. It does not matter if you still have water in your water tank, if you get it down to close to empty, that is good enough (the water remaining will freeze, but you have the expansion room you need so no damage will occur)
You want to pink out your head, dump some pink stuff down the head and flush. Don't forget to flush your head while you are blowing out your lines. Also don't forget to to open you cockpit shower while blowing out your lines.If you have a macerator you need to add pink stuff into your waste tank (Via the head) and then run the macerator to get the pink stuff through that pump. Don't forget to dump some pink stuff into your shower drain also.
As far as using the pink stuff in your engines and gen set, no problem there also. Once you see the pink stuff flowing from the exhausts, run the motor for a second or two more. Even if the temperature where you live falls to -100 degrees, you are still safe with the pink stuff. Reason being is that you have room for expansion if the water freezes.
Just My 2C
You should not use the pink stuff for your fresh water system, blowing out the lines is better and cheaper. It is a very simple process to do this. What I do is hook a compressor up to the dockside water inlet. I open all the faucets (hot and cold) and blow the water out. (you need to drain the hot water heater before you do this. You also want to run your water pump for a second or two while blowing out your lines. You want to clear any water out of that pump.
Prior to the above, you want to run your fresh water tanks down till your faucets are spitting air and water. It does not matter if you still have water in your water tank, if you get it down to close to empty, that is good enough (the water remaining will freeze, but you have the expansion room you need so no damage will occur)
You want to pink out your head, dump some pink stuff down the head and flush. Don't forget to flush your head while you are blowing out your lines. Also don't forget to to open you cockpit shower while blowing out your lines.If you have a macerator you need to add pink stuff into your waste tank (Via the head) and then run the macerator to get the pink stuff through that pump. Don't forget to dump some pink stuff into your shower drain also.
As far as using the pink stuff in your engines and gen set, no problem there also. Once you see the pink stuff flowing from the exhausts, run the motor for a second or two more. Even if the temperature where you live falls to -100 degrees, you are still safe with the pink stuff. Reason being is that you have room for expansion if the water freezes.
Just My 2C
I blow everything out through the dockside water hook up, and also add the pink stuff to the fresh water tank and run it through the system.
I don't ever drink the water from my fresh water tank, and I don't have an ice maker, so I don't care about the taste.
I know I probably don't need the pink stuff after I blow out the fresh water system, but I can be a bit anal at times.
I use the pink for the head and waste tank too.
I also run it through the AC.
I capture whatever pink comes out the faucets when I run it through the system, and I have my assistant (10 year old son) catch what comes out the AC discharge in a bucket.
I use the pink that we re-captured for the bilge pumps.
First I use the float switches to get out whatever water I can, then I use the Shop Vac to get the rest. Once it's dry, I pour some pink stuff around each pump and use the float switches to have the pumps pick it up and run it through.
Then I break out the Shop Vac again to dry it all one last time for the winter.
Probably wasting pink stuff there too, but its really only a few bucks more overall on what it costs to own and maintain a boat.
I don't ever drink the water from my fresh water tank, and I don't have an ice maker, so I don't care about the taste.
I know I probably don't need the pink stuff after I blow out the fresh water system, but I can be a bit anal at times.
I use the pink for the head and waste tank too.
I also run it through the AC.
I capture whatever pink comes out the faucets when I run it through the system, and I have my assistant (10 year old son) catch what comes out the AC discharge in a bucket.
I use the pink that we re-captured for the bilge pumps.
First I use the float switches to get out whatever water I can, then I use the Shop Vac to get the rest. Once it's dry, I pour some pink stuff around each pump and use the float switches to have the pumps pick it up and run it through.
Then I break out the Shop Vac again to dry it all one last time for the winter.
Probably wasting pink stuff there too, but its really only a few bucks more overall on what it costs to own and maintain a boat.
As far as the -50 pink stuff for motors, I think the mix in my cars is good to about -34 or so, and in all the cars I've owned over the last 40 years, I've never had a motor or any other component in the cooling system freeze up or be damaged from the cold.
Now if I lived at the South Pole, that would be another story.
Now if I lived at the South Pole, that would be another story.
My preference is to get as much water out of the fresh water system as possible. Add some pink and flush it thru; then add more pink and flush that thru. I use 2 gallons of pink to do this. When temps hit the zero mark I don't worry about a thing; I am probably safe for -20* or more. Come spring I just add water and pump out the pink.
Walter, your process is exactly what I have been doing for years. No pink crap in the potable water system. Air in the lines won't freeze at any temperature.
Pink in the shower sump, head, holding tank and raw water side of the FWC engines is all that is required. Each engine (454) takes (3) gallons to ensure pink is out the exhaust and (2) more for the shower sump, head, holding tank. Nothing to flush in the spring. (8) gallons is more than ample. Anyone using (12 to 24) gallons is just pissing it away.
Pink in the shower sump, head, holding tank and raw water side of the FWC engines is all that is required. Each engine (454) takes (3) gallons to ensure pink is out the exhaust and (2) more for the shower sump, head, holding tank. Nothing to flush in the spring. (8) gallons is more than ample. Anyone using (12 to 24) gallons is just pissing it away.
I stopped by my local Walmart yesterday to pickup my Rotella Oil for the engine yearly oil change and low and behold they had RV -50 pink for $3.97 a gallon. Unfortunately I had already ordered my pink from the marina for about 50 cents a gallon more but if you still need some check out Walmart. They did have 2 brands, the one was $3.97 and the other, I believe it was Camco brand, was $4.99.