De winterizing
Spring has finally sprung here in Northern Ontario. The TT is now moved from it's winter parking spot to the driveway, ready for the season. Now it is time to de winterize it. Here is my list: -fi...
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swimmer_spe wrote:JaxDad wrote:swimmer_spe wrote:JaxDad wrote:MudChucker wrote:
So... I think you are close, perhaps you are a bigger picture person and so have missed some details...
Leave hot water tank bypass in bypass configuration.
Partially fill fresh tank and dump a couple of times.
Fully fill fresh tank and ad a cup or 2 of unscented bleach.
Turn on water pump and pump mixture through all lines till pink stops pumping out.
Drink a beer.
Drain fresh tank.
Drink another beer while tank drains.
Fill fresh tank and pump through lines till bleachy water is gone.
Turn off pump
Done.
That the best reason why I like using air instead of that pink goo.
Besides, at my age I’m asleep after two beer.....
I am further north than you, so the goo is good.
It never gets cold enough for air to freeze and burst a pipe. LOL.
I am assuming you have never heard of a hydro lock. In our winters, that would become an ice cube. That ice cube could break a water line.
Yes, I know all too well what a hydrolock is, it’s when for instance, there is sufficient liquid in a cylinder to end the piston's stroke before it can reach TDC. Since liquids are nearly incompressible the piston cannot complete its travel and so either the engine must stop rotating or a mechanical failure must occur, or both.
I don’t understand what a locked up engine has to do with RV plumbing.
If you’re trying to imply that the liquid in the pipe would stop the air flow, no, it can’t do that. Not unless you have a tap shut and never open it during the blowing out process.
If you did that however, the same thing would occur using antifreeze too.
