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Water Softener
Last winter we were in Lowe's, saw a clearance display with a nice price on a Water Softener. Well, my old one was starting to leak in a valve and it was 25 years old, and I wanted to switch to Potassium Chloride softener salt, so I bought it. It's installed and full and is working well …
… but I have the old one on my basement stoop, and that sucker is [B]heavy[/B]. I got most all the old Sodium Chloride out as well as water, I can off load it at the recycle center … but [B]did I mention it's [COLOR=#ff0000]heavy[/COLOR][/B]. No hand holds. Tomorrow, I'm gonna take a sawsall to it, cut the resin tank and put resins in old coffee cans. They are mostly plastic anyway, no biohazards. Just a mess, but I bet it'll be some[COLOR=#0000ff][B] lighter.
[URL]https://www.triketalk.com/forum/threads/57565-Potassium-Chloride-or-Sodium-Chloride[/URL][/B][/COLOR]
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Cut it lengthways , they make a good BBQ .
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Maybe wearing PPE would be a good idea. Better safe that sorry.
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[QUOTE=1dn5up;771718]Cut it lengthways , they make a good BBQ .[/QUOTE]The outside is plastic, the resin tank looks like fiberglass?
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[QUOTE=CrystalPistol;771716]Last winter we were in Lowe's, saw a clearance display with a nice price on a Water Softener. Well, my old one was starting to leak in a valve and it was 25 years old, and I wanted to switch to Potassium Chloride softener salt, so I bought it. It's installed and full and is working well …
… but I have the old one on my basement stoop, and that sucker is [B]heavy[/B]. I got most all the old Sodium Chloride out as well as water, I can off load it at the recycle center … but [B]did I mention it's [COLOR=#ff0000]heavy[/COLOR][/B]. No hand holds. Tomorrow, I'm gonna take a sawsall to it, cut the resin tank and put resins in old coffee cans. They are mostly plastic anyway, no biohazards. Just a mess, but I bet it'll be some[COLOR=#0000ff][B] lighter.
[URL]https://www.triketalk.com/forum/threads/57565-Potassium-Chloride-or-Sodium-Chloride[/URL][/B][/COLOR][/QUOTE]
Cut hand holes with the saws-all ....Wear gloves....
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Be careful and don't spill the resin beads. If you get enough on your shoes it is like trying to walk on Ice. Where I used to work, we changed out the resin in our water softener, two tanks with 30 cu. ft. per tank. It was a mess. Most was sucked out by a vacuum truck.
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Sounds like a job for explosives.
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Yah, detonate in place, that should do it. :blowup:
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Be sure to take and post videos. Could be a very entertaining show.....! Jim
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[QUOTE=CrystalPistol;771721]The outside is plastic, the resin tank looks like fiberglass?[/QUOTE]
Ok , I thought it was one of those galvanized monsters.
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Maybe call in a Napalm strike and incinerate it? :D
Sunman
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[SIZE=3]About cutting that fiberglass: PPE would be a good idea here as you don't want to inhale the dust of fiberglass.
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[QUOTE=1dn5up;771776]Ok , I thought it was one of those galvanized monsters.[/QUOTE]No, but I think as heavy as a new dry one is, this one is heavier because it maybe has a water logged resin tank, not dry resins.
I thought about cutting hand holds in the outer body but wonder if the plastic will tear like if I run straps through them and use a come a long hung from a beam to lift and back my truck under it. I'd have to "drop" the thing off the tailgate at the recycle center. Like said, I have most of the salt out of it, I moved it outside with my hand truck.
I hauled one to the dump years ago, it was a manual one, it turned over in my truck and made a mess. I was younger and did not own a sawsall then either.
Yeah, I'll aim to at least photo whatever I do, I know I'm not the first.
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Might be worth it to have the proper company come in and remove it for you... a sting in the pocketbook but DONE and out of your life...without wrecking/messing anything or your body...