Recent content by sidmoore

Okay, ditttohead, I think I've got it. I placed my order with softenerparts.com after 10pm on Friday and the order arrived in Monday's mail! Is that awesome, or, what??? Plus, Andrew Cross, of SoftenerParts, is equally swift in giving help to customers---almost instant replies to queries for...

DH, we used to be your neighbor in Claremont. Great place to be, but, so is the hill ten miles out of a small Texas town where my wife and I retired to---population of the entire county is under 14,000. Nearest neighbor is over half-a-mile down the unpaved county road.

Hey, DH, thanx for the info, and the tip on your soon-to-be-released video on a rebuild of the Fleck 9100. If possible, please give me a heads up when you get it finished. I can wait on this leak problem for a few weeks until then. In the meantime, after removing the piston assemblies, can one...

We have an eight-year-old Culligan Soft-Minder Twin with a Fleck 9100 control valve. The upper valve assembly is leaking at the piston. Several years ago on this forum, it was suggested that the seal kits and the piston assemblies be replaced. However, I think I take issue with the need to...

You guys set me straight with regard to TDS being useless in checking water softener output (since the TDS reading of the softened water might even exceed that of the incoming hard water)...many thanks for that little piece of enlightenment (I got the great Hach 5 kit for that test, as you...

Thanx, Ditto (post #6). I tested pre-softener water and, indeed, it turned baby cheek pink. It took something like 25 drops of titrate solution to get it to slowly tend towards blue. As one other poster suggested in a rather round-about way---and YOU clarified---my system is doing a very good...

Thanx, guys. What do you make of the beginning color of the solution being dark purplish-blue---not red, nor, pink???????

Whoa, Nellie!!! I just received the HACH Model 5B Hardness Test Kits that were recommended here and just did my first test of our softened water. But, when I added the scoopful of UniVer 3 Hardness Reagent to my sample, it did not turn pink as stated in the instructions. Instead, it turned a...

Thanx for the link, Dittohead. Sid

Mialynette, I had figured that might be true, but, had no way to really know, until you just verified it for me. Thanx! Sid

Thanx for the tip, Tom. I had searched Hach for hardness kits and, for whatever reason, came up only with expensive, or, one shot kits. Much appreciated. Sid

Well, I understand that a TDS reading lumps all dissolved solids together and that these, mainly, consist of calcium and magnesium. It is also my understanding that "hardness" is a measure of the amount of calcium (mainly) in the water. What I don't understand is: How can one possibly derive a...