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drillagent
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Aug 26, 2014

Can't find Calgon powder

Ok, so I've read multiple places that using Calgon powder water softener helps clean the black tank. But I can't find Calgon powder. All Walmart has is the liquid. Will that work? How about water softener pellets? Will they work like ice while they dissolve to break up the solids?

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  • If you do throw Calgon into the black tank "willy nilly", it would work just fine. The "Geo Method" isn't exactly physics or a recipe for red velvet cake like some people make it out to be LOL
  • drillagent wrote:
    Ok, so I've read multiple places that using Calgon powder water softener helps clean the black tank. But I can't find Calgon powder. All Walmart has is the liquid. Will that work? How about water softener pellets? Will they work like ice while they dissolve to break up the solids?

    The calgon is part f a method called the GEO method. It involves more than just pouring Calgon willy nilly into the black tank.
  • FrankShore wrote:
    ol Bombero-JC wrote:
    FrankShore wrote:
    You must not have looked very far. Amazon has it.

    Calgon Powder


    But.......the *powder* HAS disappeared from market shelves (including the Mega-supermarkets, Wally, etc.) quite some time ago.

    However - as posters indicate, the liquid *IS* readily available in the laundry soap aisles and will do the same thing...:C

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    Right, so will the powder that I posted!



    OK Frank - since we share the same "turf" - besides Amazon, where can one find Calgon powder??.

    As in - which 'sticks and bricks' market, or??

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  • ol Bombero-JC wrote:
    FrankShore wrote:
    You must not have looked very far. Amazon has it.

    Calgon Powder


    But.......the *powder* HAS disappeared from market shelves (including the Mega-supermarkets, Wally, etc.) quite some time ago.

    However - as posters indicate, the liquid *IS* readily available in the laundry soap aisles and will do the same thing...:C

    ~


    Right, so will the powder that I posted!
  • FrankShore wrote:
    You must not have looked very far. Amazon has it.

    Calgon Powder


    But.......the *powder* HAS disappeared from market shelves (including the Mega-supermarkets, Wally, etc.) quite some time ago.
    (Including same in "The OC" where "FrankShore" is located).

    However - as posters indicate, the liquid *IS* readily available in the laundry soap aisles and will do the same thing...:C

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