Simple Chuck

[ford_truck_guy]

Well, I picked up an early Christmas gift the other week, and finally had a chance to try it out.. We have very hard well water and it ALWAYS leaves water spots, tons of water spots.. SO up till now, I would have to hand dry the fiver after washing if I didn’t want to see any water spots.

I picked up the Simple Chuck and gave it a twirl today... WHAT A PRODUCT ! ! ! I washed in direct sun used their Soap, it’s Called SUDS’ N SHINE and I have ZERO water spots... NONE !! It saved me about 2 hours, 3 Advil, and a lot of pain... Just rinse and walk away.




edited to correct spelling, grammar, and everything else that was wrong after re-reading.

[laknox]

larry barnhart wrote:

REWahoo wrote:

golf_bears wrote:
Are there other less costly solutions????

You can always wait until it is raining to wash your RV. Not ashamed to admit I've done it. 🙂

we winter for 6 months in Az and I always wash the alpenlite when it rains. Problem is it doesn't rain enough. At this time the rain in Az would be a different story.

chevman

Unless it's winter, the =real= challenges are 1) being able to remain standing while it's raining sideways and 2) avoiding the lighting and flying tree branches (if not whole trees). :B

Lyle

[larry_barnhart]

REWahoo wrote:

golf_bears wrote:
Are there other less costly solutions????

You can always wait until it is raining to wash your RV. Not ashamed to admit I've done it. 🙂

we winter for 6 months in Az and I always wash the alpenlite when it rains. Problem is it doesn't rain enough. At this time the rain in Az would be a different story.

chevman

[ford_truck_guy]

I've done this... as a matter of fact, I did this before leaving for vacation a few weeks back....

[REWahoo]

golf_bears wrote:
Are there other less costly solutions????

You can always wait until it is raining to wash your RV. Not ashamed to admit I've done it. 🙂

[Wood_chip]

ford truck guy wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
I would think the 400 gallon capacity of the $90 filters would go fairly quickly.

Thoughts on using regular "GOOD" water to do the wash and use CHUCK for the rinse?

Do you need to use their soap?

My Dad loved the Mr Clean system but not enough buyers so they quit production.

I DID use the water bypass that is on there.. I used my regular well water to wet first, then soap, and rinsed with the DIonized ( CHUCK WATER) water..

They sell a bypass for $50.00,,, go to any big box store and get 2 of the metal ( or plastic) "Y" connectors and an 18" piece of stainless braided hose .. Hook it up as your bypass...

I just trow 2 levers to get clean water and bypass the chuck water... then visa-versa

I have about 15 washes through my DIC 20. The key is using a low flow pressure washer like the Kranzel. I also just ordered the mod that removes the cartridges entirely and uses fill tubes with 40% more resin.

[Lynnmor]

Some machine shops use a simple system from Culligan, it might be worthwhile to contact them.

[ford_truck_guy]

Cummins12V98 wrote:
I would think the 400 gallon capacity of the $90 filters would go fairly quickly.

Thoughts on using regular "GOOD" water to do the wash and use CHUCK for the rinse?

Do you need to use their soap?

My Dad loved the Mr Clean system but not enough buyers so they quit production.

I DID use the water bypass that is on there.. I used my regular well water to wet first, then soap, and rinsed with the DIonized ( CHUCK WATER) water..

They sell a bypass for $50.00,,, go to any big box store and get 2 of the metal ( or plastic) "Y" connectors and an 18" piece of stainless braided hose .. Hook it up as your bypass...

I just trow 2 levers to get clean water and bypass the chuck water... then visa-versa

[fj12ryder]

golf_bears wrote:
Are there other less costly solutions????

Sure, just use a chamois or something similar. Very unhandy for something as big as a 5th wheel, but work fine for smaller vehicles. And much cheaper. 🙂

[Cummins12V98]

I would think the 400 gallon capacity of the $90 filters would go fairly quickly.

Thoughts on using regular "GOOD" water to do the wash and use CHUCK for the rinse?

Do you need to use their soap?

My Dad loved the Mr Clean system but not enough buyers so they quit production.

[RollandB]

As someone who has a dark blue truck, a black Yukon and on. It’s water, if I don’t hand dry, they both get water spots. I may be talking to Santa a bit early as well.

[golf_bears]

Are there other less costly solutions????

[ford_truck_guy]

golf_bears wrote:
What are DI Filters??? Where do you get them???? How effective are they relative to water spots????

It is this - Simple Chuck

PORTABLE SPOTLESS WATER
Deionized Water Filter System
No water spots. No towel drying. No elbow grease. Guaranteed!

[golf_bears]

What are DI Filters??? Where do you get them???? How effective are they relative to water spots????

[DutchmenSport]

Good tip. Thanks.

We live in the country and our well water (although very safe and very good to drink) has a lot of minerals in it and also a lot of rust. (rust is good ... it's iron!) But it does leave things very hard to clean and stains over time.

We eventually had installed a Kenetico Whole House filtration system. I suppose its kind of like Culligan. Our's uses 2 sand charcoal filtration tanks and also a tank for salt for water softening.

It works great! It removes almost all the hard water, all the staining, and reduced all that hard cleaning to almost zip!

However, the outside spigot on the house was still plumbed prior to the filtration system. When filling water from the house to the fresh water tank, I was running a garden hose all the way to the laundry room where I put a quick disconnect on and could run the hose to the camper.

Also washing the trailer and the vehicles was a pain, leaving spots.

After several years of fighting the outside spigot, this last spring, I took the plunge, crawled under the house and ran a second spigot outside with the filtered water. So now, outside the house we have 2 spigots beside each other. One is the filtered water and the other is not!

The filtered water took care of all our problems. The water in the camper is nice now. Washing the vehicles is a breeze, and life is so much nicer now.

I suggest, rather than finding a band-aid for the broken arm, get the arm set and get it fixed right! Consider a whole house filtration system. They are not cheap, but they are worth every penny once you have one!

FYI, Kenetico takes no electricity. It backwashes itself, and it only does that when the water is used, unlike the electronically controlled ones that automatically backwash and filter themselves clean on a daily or weekly or monthly basis if water is used or not.

But, thanks for the tip too. I may try it, and combined with already conditioned water, I imagine washing anything then will turn out marvelous.

FYI! Really nice looking camper you have there!