coolant for 2020

[chris wastell]

You chaps seem to know what you are talking about so can you answer my question please? I have access to water from a dehumidifier in an indoor swimming pool. As this is coming from chlorinated water, is it “pure”, for want of a better description? If so, where does the chlorine go? Sorry to sound so dense but Its a bit of a mystery to me. This is a serious question.

[Deleted User]

Chris, the water from a pool dehumidifier will almost definitely contain Chlorine and other fractions, this will be corrosive and a very good way of dissolving your Scott!
No way would I use it.
Just checked with SWMBO and she confirms the above.

Mike.

[BRIAN MARSHALL]

I don’t think that ‘free’ (elemental) chlorine is added to pool water as it would be far too dangerous to handle. They will use something like sodium hypochlorite, which isn’t volatile. The chlorine smell in swimming pools is ‘free’ chlorine produced when kids (and some adults !) pee into the water, and the urine reacts with the sodium hypochlorite, producing the chlorine.

[Deleted User]

BRIAN MARSHALL wrote:

I don’t think that ‘free’ (elemental) chlorine is added to pool water as it would be far too dangerous to handle. They will use something like sodium hypochlorite, which isn’t volatile. The chlorine smell in swimming pools is ‘free’ chlorine produced when kids (and some adults !) pee into the water, and the urine reacts with the sodium hypochlorite, producing the chlorine.

Having just used sodium hypochlorite to clean my driveway I can confirm that it definitely smells strongly of chlorine straight out of the barrel and I assure you that I’m not peeing on it!

[Deleted User]

If you look up swimming pool cleaning you will get to chlorine granules, this page also allows the download of the MSDS: https://www.ukpoolstore.co.uk/acatalog/swimming-pool-chlorine.html
On that sheet you will get the “Proper shipping name” of Sodium Dichloroisocyanuric acid. Check that one out —
Brian is correct that the handling of liquid chlorine is a dodgy pastime, the valves used are also specially modified to prevent pressure build up when closed, we used to import and sell these.
The end game is that pool condensate can contain what I believe are called chloroamines, not nice, I would not use it.

Mike.

[chris wastell]

Thanks for that information, guys. I was starting to worry that I had been missing a trick. I’ll leave the swimming pool dehumidifier waste to go to waste 🙂

[Deleted User]

As the advert says…”nicer problems to have”.

Regarding rad water, I wonder how many Scotts were filled up from the kitchen tap, roadside puddles, wee, or even pub glass beer slops back in the dim and distant past?

[gammakeith]

@Tman wrote:

As the advert says…”nicer problems to have”.

Regarding rad water, I wonder how many Scotts were filled up from the kitchen tap, roadside puddles, wee, or even pub glass beer slops back in the dim and distant past?

To be fair, if you live in a soft water area (like us) then there is pretty much nothing of concern to using tap water. We never have to descale our kettle so the Scott rad and engine would also not suffer. Road side puddles should also be OK unless the water has leached rubbish from the tarmac (rain water is after all effectively distilled). I not sure wee or beer slops would be so good though 😛

Keith

[BRIAN MARSHALL]

“It’s frothy man” 😀

[Deleted User]

If you really want to descale the cooling system of a Scott then just use coffee machine descaler,
but as said I don’t think you will get much out

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