Vinegar and the PW system
Has anyone used vinegar to clean and disinfect the fresh water tanks and system ?
Lee
Levent Marina, Izmir Turkey
I got a little diesel in a fresh water tank -- I'm sure you can guess how
that could happen.
I cleaned with clorox bleach, with detergent, with vinegar, and of course
with many many gallons of water. My last step was to pour a gallon or two
of gin into a tank of water. As I read on some forum "a taste/smell will
persist for a long time, but you have some ability to choose which
taste/smell."
I was successful in eliminating the taint of diesel. I am not sure how much
the vinegar contributed.
On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 12:35 AM LAL lazilicata@gmail.com wrote:
Has anyone used vinegar to clean and disinfect the fresh water tanks and
system ?
Lee
Levent Marina, Izmir Turkey
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Vinegar may not kill all of the microorganisms that can foul a boat fresh water system. Recommendations that I can find suggest a 50/50 vinegar solution(usual 5% solution) - quite a lot for a typical boat system. Vinegar may also adversely affect the hot water heater anode. Bleach/chlorine will kill everything. Minimum concentration for this is 50 ppm. For my 300+ gallon system I use 1 qt of bleach and allow it to work for 3h.Jelles. Talulah KK44035 Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone
-------- Original message --------From: larry talley larryt@acm.org Date: 7/25/21 2:02 PM (GMT-05:00) To: LAL lazilicata@gmail.com Cc: TrawlerList trawlers@lists.trawlering.com Subject: T&T: Re: Vinegar and the PW system I got a little diesel in a fresh water tank -- I'm sure you can guess howthat could happen.I cleaned with clorox bleach, with detergent, with vinegar, and of coursewith many many gallons of water. My last step was to pour a gallon or twoof gin into a tank of water. As I read on some forum "a taste/smell willpersist for a long time, but you have some ability to choose whichtaste/smell."I was successful in eliminating the taint of diesel. I am not sure how muchthe vinegar contributed.On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 12:35 AM LAL lazilicata@gmail.com wrote:> Has anyone used vinegar to clean and disinfect the fresh water tanks and> system ?>> Lee>> Levent Marina, Izmir Turkey>> To access the T&T List archives, go to> https://lists.trawlering.com/empathy/list/trawlers.lists.trawlering.com> To unsubscribe, send email to trawlers-leave@lists.trawlering.com with> nothing in the subject or body of the message.>> Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World Productions.> Unauthorized use is prohibited.>To access the T&T List archives, go to https://lists.trawlering.com/empathy/list/trawlers.lists.trawlering.comTo unsubscribe, send email to trawlers-leave@lists.trawlering.com with nothing in the subject or body of the message.Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.
A word of caution with bleach in aluminum tanks... bleach will damage the
aluminum, though I have no idea of quantities or length of time. When we
used a bleach solution in our aluminium tanks, we didn't take too long to
pump the solution out, refilled and re-pumped out.
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