anybody use auto antifreeze in your drains

K3WE wrote:

wandering1 wrote:

BurbMan wrote:
I get that but the question is will it damage the trap?

If you get that then go ahead and do what you want to do or contact the manufacturer and ask?

Maybe because the manufacturer will answer mostly based on advice from their legal department as opposed to answering based on knowledge of the materials.

yep, any manufacturer would say don't do it to CYA.
bumpy

wandering1 wrote:

BurbMan wrote:
I get that but the question is will it damage the trap?

If you get that then go ahead and do what you want to do or contact the manufacturer and ask?

Maybe because the manufacturer will answer mostly based on advice from their legal department as opposed to answering based on knowledge of the materials.

LOL.
Thanks for the early morning laughs.

wvcampers wrote:
Talkin about "making a mountain out of a molehill". I guess that most people here didn't understand what was meant when I said that the "reportable quanity" is 5000lbs for ethylene glycol. In layman terms that means that you would have to spill 5000 pounds of "pure" ethylene glycol before it has to be reported to any local or federal agencies. I am very sure that the amount that would be used to preserve a trap in a camper or home does not pose a threat to any waste treatment facility.

I say to the OP. Use what you have and just make sure that you flush it to a sewer system and not where any animals can get to it.

The problem is that a million molehills IS a mountain.

One would think that we, as campers, would be leading the charge to each do our own little bit to save what's left of this little green sheer we all live on.

Case in point, I doubt most people would give a second thought to tossing a cigarette butt on the ground. One butt, so what?

But in the grander scheme of things that one butt is one of 176,000,000 butts a year!

If a convoy of trucks dumped 176,000,000 in a pile I bet there'd be a LOT of people screaming.

A single cigarette butt will pollute more than 2,000 gallons of ground water.

BurbMan wrote:
Already winterized with the pink stuff and nothing left. Had a skylight leak over the shower that dumped some water in the shower pan and now temps are gonna drop to hard freeze levels. Don't really want to buy another gallon of pink, can I put a little Prestone in the shower trap?

Yes you can. There, now don't you feel better. Hope your mind is at ease now. It's what I would have done without asking.

You should be ok. I understand you did what you needed to do. I use the blue windshield washer fluid in my traps and the remainder goes under the hood for the windshield.

Talkin about "making a mountain out of a molehill". I guess that most people here didn't understand what was meant when I said that the "reportable quanity" is 5000lbs for ethylene glycol. In layman terms that means that you would have to spill 5000 pounds of "pure" ethylene glycol before it has to be reported to any local or federal agencies. I am very sure that the amount that would be used to preserve a trap in a camper or home does not pose a threat to any waste treatment facility.

I say to the OP. Use what you have and just make sure that you flush it to a sewer system and not where any animals can get to it.

wing_zealot wrote:

JaxDad wrote:
Just out of curiosity, where do you folks who use auto antifreeze dump your tanks later?...

I dump them at the dump station. By the time the several thousand gallons of deicing fluid used at the local airport hits the 17.7 mgd WWTP my 3 cups full is pretty miniscule.

Except de-icing fluid is Propylene Glycol, used in food products, and automotive antifreeze is Ethylene Glycol which is toxic.

But other than that, yes, 3 cups versus 100's of gallons is minuscule.

Bumpyroad wrote:
OK, I gotta ask, why not open that gallon of pink stuff, pour a cup in the drain, and use the rest of the gallon next winter?
bumpy

1. Didn't have any and the store was closed;

2. We are moving in the spring and I am trying to clean out the garage not add to the mess....

LOL such a debate over a question that comes from
basically an emergency situation.

No wonder retirement is so much fun, thanks for the laughs.