On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:46:53 -0500, you wrote:
>Interesting as I grew up in a house that was 100% galvanized pipe. We >lived there for 17 years and my father never touched the plumbing other >than perhaps replacing a faucet. >That was on the west side of Detroit and the house was fed with Detroit >City water which is known for being very soft. I didn't know what a >water softener was until we moved away from there. I prefer copper, >although PVC is not bad. It will be interesting to see how these new >PEX systems hold up in 25 years or so. 100% Galvo is no problem, particularly with soft water. Mixed metals and temp hard water is a bad choice. Forget Galvanized fittings altogether, you are just installing sacrificial anodes, but I'll bet your current problem is mostly electrolytic corrosion, (excuse pun), particularly if your pump is a submerged type. Steve Blackmore -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
