Mysterious substance in potable water
I had let my bathtub cold water run too long in my Mini Lite, ran out of water, and lost the prime on my pump. This happened on the last day driving back from my most recent trip, so I just stored the...
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ScottG wrote:
I wonder if it could be material from the water heaters anode. If you have a Suburban WH (Atwood = no anode) then perhaps when you ran out of water and it ended up pulling some of the junk of the bottom of the WH's tank somehow.
Or if you have hard water then it could have just been calcium deposits in the bottom of the fresh water tank that were sucked through the system.
As a matter of fact, the last place we stayed; Rio Del Sol RV park near Parker, AZ, had hard water, according to a knowledgeable inhabitant.
I thought that it would just shorten my filters life, but the filter would take out the extra minerals. Especially stuff this big and chunky. What is in those filters? Could this be something from the filter element? It just looks like paper-like membrane folded over a bunch to form a starred cylinder. Like fuel filters, and such.
